AMARILLO, TEXAS -- Fall is a great time of year for the pleasant weather, the leaves changing color, and sausage? Last week it was Polish sausage in White Deer this week it's German sausage in Umbarger for the St. Mary's Parish German sausage festival.

St. Mary's Parish has been hosting the festival for 58 years. Traditionally the event falls on the second Sunday in November.

Roughly 25-hundred folks came out to feast on German sausage, sauerkraut, homemade bread, and apple sauce.

For the Parish and community of Umbarger the sausage festival is a tradition that spans generations.

"I think they enjoy the food and fellowship and seeing people, some of them have been here for fifty years, they've been coming for that long, so they get to see some of the new generation come up doing what someone else used to do," said Suzy Hicks the Co-Chairman.

Five thousand pounds of sausage, three thousand pounds of sauerkraut, and three hundred loaves of bread were prepared for the festival.