Folk Festival

We spent the weekend at Mariposa, listening to music in the evenings and playing in the kids' area during the day. The weather was glorious, the little ones had a glorious time. Just like last year, M&J wanted to spend most of their time listening to the storyteller recounting Frog & Toad, The Hockey Sweater, First Nations stories, etc. Whenever we wandered off to another activity or stage, Jacob would insist, "Can we go back to the fairy-teller?".

A perennial highlight is the face-painting

Yes, he's a knight-warrior, at a hippy music festival. Oh well.

The mime created the most conversation. Why is his face painted? Why can't he talk? Does he talk to his family when he gets home? There's Jacob on-stage in the big hat.

And when it was all over, we came home and slept in the tent, listening to the waves. You may be able to see the arsenal of weapons in the foreground of the photo - water pistols and hockey stick. Our new sunflower garden (photos to follow in next posting) was marauded by a flower-beheading rodent of some sort. So Jacob wanted to camp out to guard the garden and attack the critter if it dared return. He is a modern-day knight.