Dreams, Moments, Travels
This is the Wyld Men at work. To earn a day’s living these guys jump, dunk, swim through, and otherwise play in the mud. The stories vary from performance to performance, but mud is the unifying theme. Kids get up close to the stage as most adults are too timid to get a little mud on themselves. I highly recommend catching their show before they go big in Vegas. Shouts go out to Grebe, off-camera, but equally important.
This will surely be one of my favorite all-time photos of my mother-in-law. Following the Wyld Men show at today’s Renaissance Festival, a muddy Dr. Cranius Lunch gives Jutta a big wet and loving hug. At the Festival, the Wyld Men are our favorite show of gut-busting laughter. A crowd-pleaser for years has been the Ded Bob show, you owe it to yourself to catch a performance. The Tortuga Twins are better than ever and the Hey Nunnie Nunnie show has been growing on me. First stop this year, like all other years, was at the Turkey Leg stand – yum. We also enjoyed the King’s nuts which were warm and sweet, and the Lusty Wench chocolate-covered strawberries were perky as ever.
The light fluffy clouds of yesterday gave way to heavier dark clouds today but tomorrow is supposed to bring blue skies back to the valley of the sun. Tomorrow is the beginning of the Renaissance Festival – weee!
My photography is nothing if not from the moment. No setup, no tripod, no plan, no clue – just inspiration. This photo is another from my series of stupid moments, that being while driving down the road and seeing a photo I have to take but not being able to pull over safely to snap it. So, I simply and stupidly point the camera out the window while someone else steers the car and I shoot away.
Walking away from the car, Caroline accidentally pushed the shutter button and this was the result. Sometimes I like these mistakes, beautiful scenery can get sooo old.
Ethiopian food from Cafe Lalibela in Tempe, Arizona has been popular enough that for more than 10 years the cuisine of this African nation has found a home here in Arizona. Unfortunately for us the 3 Ethiopian restaurants I know of in Arizona are all located in the south valley. We have tried Blue Nile Cafe east of Lalibela on University Avenue and love their cooking too, but have yet to try Tina’s Ethiopian Cafe in Chandler. Caroline and I first became acquainted with the cuisine of Ethiopia at a restaurant in Frankfurt about 15 years ago, and we have continued enjoying this finger food ever since. This was my mother-in-law’s first taste of an African cooking style and hopefully not her last as she seemed to enjoy it as much as Caroline and I.