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Sunday at Faerieworlds
Jul. 31st, 2012 08:17 amSunday we had breakfast with my friend Denise at SweetWaters at the River Valley Inn, where she was staying for Faerieworlds. Again we were right on the river, eating lovely food and enjoying good conversation and the ambiance of the river. It was really nice to see Denise, I have missed her in the years since she moved to the Portland area. I have planned a visit a time or two but never quite made it. Now with Carole in Portland too, maybe the center of gravity will have shifted enough to roust me out and up there for a visit.
We got to Faerieworlds around 2pm and I admit that I was very cranky about the staff. They are probably mostly volunteers and I should cut them tons of slack, but honestly... they don't handle disability (or as they put it "alter-ability") worth beans. Sweet young things keep trying to explain to me that "it isn't far, all you have to do is walk for X minutes". I really wanted to spit. Or say, "I'm happy for you that you are young and healthy, but my reality is that it is quite far." Grr.
The music was wonderful. The utter lack of shade was annoying. I really hardly got any pictures because of having to have a cane in one hand and a parasol in the other. Plus purse. No hand for taking snapshots. I did try a few from my seat but it really makes me crazy because the costumes were so wonderful. Luckily my friend Pat Kight has been going to Faerieworlds for years and taking pictures. Her first batch for 2012 (looks like Friday's snaps) is up and her previous years are worth viewing too.
We went to DJ's circle singing workshop which was a lot of fun but OMG not sure this is the venue for it. There was soooo much outside noise - from the stages, from a drum corps going by, etc - that it was hard to formulate and stay on the tune fragments. But there were about a dozen or 15 people there and we did have fun. There was an airbrush tattoo place across from the workshop dome and I got a little heart & rose tatt. They use stencils and didn't have any leaves or I would have gotten leaves going up my arms.
Tricky Pixie, Baka Beyond and the other bands we heard were great. And then came the long pause (on main stage, SJ Tucker was over on the smaller stage) whilst things were set up for Donovan. As darkness fell all kinds of lighted hula hoops and jellyfish and various other cool things made their appearance. The tribes were dancing and our numbers swelled with people who had come just for Donovan arrived.
Donovan came on at about 9:45 and did a set made up entirely of his early music. I was worrying about the leaving, but Kurt encouraged me to just be present and I'm glad he did. We slow danced to Season of the Witch and then started to wander off. We had earlier been asked to "turn to your neighbor and tell them your favorite Donovan song" and I had said "Atlantis" but didn't really imagine he'd do it. Donovan did Atlantis as his encore! And we got to our car and out with way less trouble than I had feared. We got to the hotel around midnight and fell over.
We got to Faerieworlds around 2pm and I admit that I was very cranky about the staff. They are probably mostly volunteers and I should cut them tons of slack, but honestly... they don't handle disability (or as they put it "alter-ability") worth beans. Sweet young things keep trying to explain to me that "it isn't far, all you have to do is walk for X minutes". I really wanted to spit. Or say, "I'm happy for you that you are young and healthy, but my reality is that it is quite far." Grr.
The music was wonderful. The utter lack of shade was annoying. I really hardly got any pictures because of having to have a cane in one hand and a parasol in the other. Plus purse. No hand for taking snapshots. I did try a few from my seat but it really makes me crazy because the costumes were so wonderful. Luckily my friend Pat Kight has been going to Faerieworlds for years and taking pictures. Her first batch for 2012 (looks like Friday's snaps) is up and her previous years are worth viewing too.
We went to DJ's circle singing workshop which was a lot of fun but OMG not sure this is the venue for it. There was soooo much outside noise - from the stages, from a drum corps going by, etc - that it was hard to formulate and stay on the tune fragments. But there were about a dozen or 15 people there and we did have fun. There was an airbrush tattoo place across from the workshop dome and I got a little heart & rose tatt. They use stencils and didn't have any leaves or I would have gotten leaves going up my arms.
Tricky Pixie, Baka Beyond and the other bands we heard were great. And then came the long pause (on main stage, SJ Tucker was over on the smaller stage) whilst things were set up for Donovan. As darkness fell all kinds of lighted hula hoops and jellyfish and various other cool things made their appearance. The tribes were dancing and our numbers swelled with people who had come just for Donovan arrived.
Donovan came on at about 9:45 and did a set made up entirely of his early music. I was worrying about the leaving, but Kurt encouraged me to just be present and I'm glad he did. We slow danced to Season of the Witch and then started to wander off. We had earlier been asked to "turn to your neighbor and tell them your favorite Donovan song" and I had said "Atlantis" but didn't really imagine he'd do it. Donovan did Atlantis as his encore! And we got to our car and out with way less trouble than I had feared. We got to the hotel around midnight and fell over.
