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Saturday, July 12, 2014

Annapolis Irish Festival

Life seems to be one festival after another this summer. Daughter Anne and Granddaughter Zoe are both into folk dance, Irish and Middle-eastern particularly. Today's festival was more of bands and vendors, and some of the more obvious merchandise I was looking for was not there. I want to find McGrath's Irish Breakfast Tea... but there was nothing of the sort on offer. And I want to find a Clarke's tin whistle, the original penny whistle. Again... no one had such a thing. Well, the tin whistle... Sign in to see full entry.

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PRIVATE LIVES

is a play by Noel Coward: very witty and funny with rather obnoxious characters you can actually like! Annie and Zoe and I went to see it on stage last night. Zoe, 11, laughed and enjoyed it--I asked if she was laughing because the jokes were funny to her, or because we were laughing. She said, A little of both. Dinner last night was at a place called Pho DC. and it also was very good. Some flavors, though, it is hard for the mouth to get enough of them: the bowl is empty long before the mouth... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 11, 2014

poor puppy!

Ripley is not a small dog: he is some sort of mastiff-cross with a big head and a lanky body. German shepherd is likely another large part of Ripley. Ripley suddenly was walking three-legged night before last, not whimpering--just not walking on his back right leg. His brother dog, Cooper, has had torn cruciate tendons of both his hind legs, repair of which cost thousands of dollars in surgeries. Well, an x-ray yesterday determined that it is indeed now Ripley's turn. We drive him out to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Like random imaginings...

As we came home last night, in the yard, suddenly were little drifting sparks... Fireflies! And that reminded me of this poem I wrote a few summers ago. LONG ISLAND SUMMERS I’d go back for just a moment, perhaps as long as one day and a night, enough, I think, to relish what I loved about Long Island summers: Scents of ragweed, seared grasses, almost-too-sweet roses in the heavy summer air… Glittering waters, hot, hot sand and tiny shells hiding in the drying seaweed margin of the tide… Early... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 6, 2014

An incident at the parade

Before the parade reached the center of town, there was an incident with the Royal Carriage Horse, which could have been much worse. Gracie, that great white Shire mare fell down in the traces. By luck, the Royals were not spilled across the road, the carriage jacknifed, but didn't go over. They thought maybe the driver startled Gracie with a sudden command, and she made a mis-step. She was gotten back up on her feet, and the procession proceeded. But she was not at the Festival on Saturday.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 4, 2014

Parade!

Today was the 4th of July parade in Monument, CO, just a few miles from the Renaissance Festival grounds, so of course, they marched with the kids on bikes, and the Civil War re-enactors, and the president of the local bank, and other dignitaries in classic cars. I didn't take pictures of all of them, and didn't actually see the whole parade, because I followed the Ren Fest section down the street. https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ If you follow the photostream from the most recent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Oh, Canada!

A happy day to all of you, my merry Canadian friends! July 4th, they will be (last I heard) shooting off fireworks from way up on Pike's Peak summit. They did for New Years, I could see them oh so distantly from my deck. My Maryland daughter emailed me, having heard the rumor of my travels to DC next week. She wonders if I'd like to go to the Annapolis Irish Festival on the 12th, which will be a very long day and night, from one 11 to the next, and probably a very hot one. Hmmm... I'm thinking... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 30, 2014

Renaissance Revisited

The first of yesterday's photos are up! The Big Cats show is really big cats and exotics, smaller wild cats like the fishing cat and the caracal. Those, and a few others--masks, for instance--are going up today, and I will save some more for tomorrow. I took a lot of pictures! Even editing out the no-good ones, there are still a lot to show you a few more corners of the Festival before we go back to the elephants and the jousters! https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Sign in to see full entry.

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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.

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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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