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Monday, 20. October 2003

mld, October 20, 2003 at 2:35:00 AM CEST

Suzy...

...might just be the cutest kid that I ever laid eyes on at faire. She's the daughter of some friends of mine; the world being what it is, I'll not go into much more detail. Suffice to say that I see her nearly every day at faire, and that she's a delight.

Not an unmixed delight though. She's about the age my daughter was when her mother and I split, and to see her brings back the memories of the time when MK used to live with me, and our times together.

That child is gone now, replaced by a no less wonderful, but different young woman, one I do not know as well as I did that little girl.

Good News is that MK is supposed to be coming to visit the sixth or seventh weekend of faire. If she does it'll be the first time I've seen her in waaaay too long.

Anyway, as you can see, it just not possible to take a bad pic of Suzy...

This is one I took of her last year.

From last week...

This is a friend of hers that was riding in a wagon with her one day. I don't know her, but she takes a good pic, too.

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Wednesday, 15. October 2003

mld, October 15, 2003 at 2:20:00 AM CEST

Here There Be Dragons

I took one of the pics I had of the mudfaeire's dragon,(first mentioned here) and wasted some time playing with it. Here is the result:

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Tuesday, 7. October 2003

mld, October 7, 2003 at 1:19:00 AM CEST

TRF Pics 2003 - Weekend the Fyrst

The first weekend of the Texas Renaissance Festival was a recordbreaker. The weather was perfect, and folks came out in herds. In fact, according to the Beefeaters, the Saturday crown of 29,106 patrons beat any previous opening day by about 20%. The Sunday crowd, while smaller, (it always is) was still a good one at 17,326.

I had a great time, marred by trying to hawk in some fairly new boots. Not good. A pic of my feet on Saturday night would scare women and small children, and give the most confident podiatrist pause. I switched boots for Sunday.

Since I have managed to seriously break my digital camera (sat on it, I think), and didn't wanna haul around the bigass 35mm, I resorted to one of those cheap disposables. Pic quality is not too good, but hey, what are you folks expecting for free? Besides, I was busy working. That's my story, yeah, that's the ticket...

Anyway, without further ado, a few pics that I managed to photoshop to the point that I'm not ashamed to let ya'll see them.

As always, standard boilerplate applies re: copyright and such, and these pics are resized, highly compressed versions of the originals, optimised for the web and all you po' folks still trying to suck down the net through a dialup straw. If you want the original hi-res versions, drop me a line.

Click on the thumbnails for a larger version of the pic...

A few of the girls from the St.Agnes choir

This girl's garb is much better looking than her pic shows - the back is a solid cape of the feathers you see on her right (your left) side.

Best new change to the faire I've seen so far this year was addition to the mud fairies whom I've written about before They were working on the dragon you saw at the top of this entry.