Scarborough Faire

[telophase]

Some photos of yesterday's outing to the local Renaissance festival. Being me, I don't really take photos of the various people dressed up, mostly because I dressed that way myself for years in the SCA and it's kind of old hat to me, for the most part. Instead...



Here's a butterfly that landed on our program and attempted to drink nectar from the photograph of pineapples and strawberries onna stick:




Here is my Artsy Shot [tm] of the butterfly after it realized licking the photograph wasn't going to get anywhere and went to sit in the sun for a bit before flying off:




Here is a caterpillar Toby spotted on the table in front of him. It has a head with two fuzzy-looking antennae and seemed to be following a simple algorithm as it waled: walk a few steps, stop, scan right, scan left, walk a few steps, stop, etc.





Here is an dramatic-looking photo of a juvenile female bald eagle:




Here is a kid dressed like Ezio Auditore from the Assassin's Creed II games, stalking through the benches at a theatre.




Here is a guy playing the glass harmonica. We stopped to hear what it sounded like and to watch him tune it, and ended up staying through his whole show.




And here is Toby thinking "Really? You're taking my photo? Fine."

Comments

[jinian]

OMG tiny Ezio!

[telophase]

I know! He was pretty much in character every time we saw him, too!

[thistleingrey]

The butterfly ones in particular are neat.

[telophase]

I was surprised that it hung around so long! I even managed to accidentally flash it with the flash, and it didn't startle or fly off.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

I wonder if that might be a very young Spiny Oak-slug Caterpillar.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

No idea. I'm hoping the resident entomologist (badnoodles) on my f-list drops by and IDs it. :D

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

Glad to see Donal Hinnley (the Glass Harmonica) still playing out there. I have a few of the albums he did with his late brother Terry.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

I didn't know his brother had died. :( I met Terry at a RenFaire in Pensacola once. Nice guy, and a great musician.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

He talked abut his brother a little. Didn't mention he'd died, but I got the feeling that was the case, just from the way he mentioned him.

[his-spiffyness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it happened some time in the 90's. I do recall the couple of times I'd met Terry. He played the Ode To Joy for me and a few friends who had stopped by.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Glass Harmonica sounds like nothing else, doesn't it? It sounds awesome on Youtube, but absolutely amazing in person.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup! I can see why it fell out of favor as concert halls got larger and larger in the days before amplification, and it's a more intimate instrument.

We were impressed at his ability to play chords. :D