Bristol Renaissance Faire (7/25/10)

Last weekend my Meet Up group had a trip to the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, Wisconsin. I hadn't been to a renaissance faire since taking Kaitlyn to the one in Pennsylvania when she was about four years old. I made her come with us because despite her early protests I knew she would love it and, like a mom that knows her child all too well, I was right! It was so much fun, in fact, that we are taking her and a couple of her friends back up there in a couple of weeks. My personal mission for this Meet Up was to work on street photography/portraiture, an area at which I don't consider myself to be very good. I have to admit I was more than shocked by how good some of my pictures turned out...

I loved this guy's mismatched shoes and advertisement dress.

Katie and I thought this guy looked a little like Robin Williams!

This is by far one of my most favorite photos, she was so interestingly made up and it worked really well against the backdrop of those trees!

When this woman smiled, her grin was almost as big as the necklace she wore!!

This woman totally rocked the Irish Harp and she sang really beautifully as well.

Mmm, yea!

Male, female...jury is still out.

There was something Da Vinci about this fellow!

This lady was the bomb!! She was really missing her front two teeth and worked that character like she really was back in the day. She was super fascinating and fun to photograph as you will see...

Mr. Fiddle was quite flirty!!

I believe this was the Queen.

What spectacular eyes!!

Day 12 - Downtown Santa Barbara (6/29/10)

Exhausted and hungry from a busy morning, we went downtown to grab some lunch and take more pictures. We ate at State & A and were serenaded by a pair of Peregrine Falcons on the top of the Granada Building that were chowing down on a misfortunate pigeon.

I didn't like how they changed the front of the Granada Theatre - they got rid of the fountain/planter out from and changed the marquee!

As we were leaving State & A we saw these people rolling this dinosaur down the street so I snapped off a quick one and loved how it looks like it is eating the flag! LOL

Remember Dad's office - 2nd row of arches down and third from the left! I do like the addition of the planters out front!

The new Madame Rozinka's - Dad was telling me that the original one (which I always wanted to live in because I thought it was so cute and interesting - as close the I Dream of Jeannie bottle as I was gonna get) - was blown up when the daughter and daughter's boyfriend hatched a plan to dispatch the good Madame to inherit all her apparent vast quantities of money!!

Joe and Pat, remember you used to love terrorizing me with these by threatening to throw the dried out ones at me in Alameda Park?! They are from the Bunya Bunya tree.

These are the big doors to the public library - I forgot how cool they looked!