The Ciel Show for Sunday, June 29, 2014

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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Dusty, hot, and aching...

Yes, another day at the Renaissance Festival! And yes, there will be more photos of things I missed last time. But there was one moment I couldn't wait to share... The jousting is modified in the script every time, keeping it fresh and unexpected. You don't know who will be slain, or who will do it. Last weekend, the Good Knight was slain by the nasty one... and the King came down with a crossbow, and killed the nasty one. Today, the Good Knight was slain by the Nasty Knight, then the Good... Sign in to see full entry.

The Mountain Gods

It's just past 6am, the sky is clear blue, Pike's Peak has passed from its rosy dawn shade to a stoney orange color, not a trace of snow on it now. Pike's Peak is a 'fourteener' which is to say, one of the several Colorado Rockies mountains over 14,000 feet. It doesn't look that big from here, and in fact, with Colorado Springs being just over 6,000 feet altitude itself, from here, the Peak is only 8,000 feet higher than where I stand to gaze at it. Mount Rainier, which loomed over my horizon in... Sign in to see full entry.

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