On the final Sunday morning, exhibitors and volunteers returned to the main pavilion to collect and clean up.

Hundreds of categories, classes and sections covering everything from candlewicking to crochet, sponges to scones, roses to rhododendrons, sketching to still life, and capsicums to carrots were exhibited.

The Upper Hunter's children, schools, farmers, dressmakers, florists, designers and cooks displayed their great talents and those who love their chosen craft with a passion were lucky enough to take home a ribbon.

The Chronicle ventured down to the Pavilion to see who might be coming and going.

The joy was written all over the faces of those who 'had a go', whether they won a prize or not.

Rachel Wicks, from Brawboy near Kars Springs, cleaned up in the Farm and Garden category, taking home five 1st prizes, five 2nd prizes and one third prize.

Show volunteer, Gayle Wittig, helped Caitlin Folpp, from St Marys Primary School in Scone, gather up her students' art and handicrafts.

Glenys Seckold, from Aberdeen, was overwhelmed that two of her entries took out Champion prizes.  Glenys’ Tomato and Capsicum Jam and her Chilli Sauce wowed the judges in the Cookery section.

Anna Lloyd, from Aberdeen, also caught the eye, and tastebuds, of the judges.  Her Rock Cakes took out first place in the Cookery section in the 10-12 year old age group.

Sharon Rivers, from Martindale Public School, was there, too, collecting the photography, needlework and handicraft creations her students at the tiny one-teacher school had entered.

Stacey Grentell, from Aberdeen, knows how to grow a BIG pumpkin.  Her 45cm diameter Atlantic Giant pumpkin was first in the Farm and Garden section for any pumpkin variety 20cm and over.

Stacey said her seeds were heirloom seeds and she grew the monster in less than eight weeks next to the neighbour’s fence. 

While Ardell Freeman and Jenny Webster were kept busy matching exhibitors to their exhibits, 88 years young, Jean Mitchelhill from Muscle Creek, sat nearby.

She is a Life Member of the Upper Hunter Show Society and she was there on Sunday, as she has been for so many previous Shows, keeping an eye on the items painstakingly created by so many exhibitors arriving to pick up their precious cargo.

Even as the petals started to fall at the 2015 Upper Hunter Show, the roses were still a thing of beauty on the final morning.

Julie Joy impressed the judges with her floral arrangements.  She took out a first prize in the Freestyle Arrangement.

She won another first prize and Champion in Show ribbon for her Decorative Floral arrangement, which commemorated 100 years since the ANZACs landed at Gallipoli.