(Most Of) A Day At The Faire

We spent most of yesterday at the Maryland Renaissance Festival. We were supposed to spend the whole day, but some miscommunications caused us to have to leave earlier then we had planned. There was still time to get some good pictures, though, and we’ll be going back for a full day of fun and frivolity in a couple of weeks.

Watching the people at the renfest is one of my favorite things, especially when I can catch folks out of “character,” such as this young lady removing ye olde contact lenses. People in garb pushing strollers and yacking on cell phones are other favorites.

Of course, it can’t be a good day at the Renaissance Festival without catching at least one performance by Shakespeare’s Scum or The Rogues, and photographing at least one set of heaving bosoms.

Yo, Will, here ya go!, buddy! This one’s for you!

As always, more pictures can be found on my flickr stream, here… and there will be more in a couple of weeks, when we go back.

The really astute among you will notice that the little tag in flickr has changed. It now says, “taken with a Canon EOS 40D” instead of “Taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi.” That’s because, while I was over visiting friends on Maryland’s Eastern Shore on Saturday, Donna was at Penn Camera, trying to pick up another Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS zoom lens and a 580EX-II flash. They didn’t have any of the lenses in the store, so, she ordered one. At the same time, she off-handedly commented that she didn’t suppose they had any 40Ds, either. To her surprise, they had two, along with a pair of battery grips and several extra batteries. So, after a brief telephone conversation, we decided that she should bring them on home.

Yes, this was much earlier than we had planned, but, I guess that’s the way it goes.