Let's turn on the Way Back Machine and set it for June 26-28, 2009 at the New York Fairie Festival. A first year festival with a whole lot of spirit...and a little rain...make that a lot of rain!

But the site, the land, the location...oh goodness...it made up for the weather.





( Come along to a visit to a new faerie land... )

The Potomac Celtic Festival happened way back on June 13-14. Luckily, the weather was MUCH better than Last Year and ultimately the show was much less eventful, which is like a weird pun for an event write up. Any way, here is a nice picture of our booth and the grounds to warm things up...which is what we actually were glad didn't happen!



( More pictures and such on the other side of this link... )

Well, one more May festival to go. I am so far behind on catching up, I might be going backwards. However, I like to post a festival report for every event we do, and it has been a busy season. This one is the last of our Month of May festival, and we have actually just come home from another one, but that will come later.

Like the previous festival, the Maryland Faerie Festival was celebrating it's 5th year in 2009. The show had a set back last year, with a scheduling conflict for the site it using resulting in it being held in June. That weekend turned out to be one of the record breaking dangerously hot periods in MD last year and there were severe complications due to it. I wrote about it Here. The show survived and thrived, and as is often the case, will need a couple of years to reset and reboot. But they sure made a great start of it this year and excelled despite the rough weather, because, well, it has been a wet spring.



( Following the bouncing bubble.... )

The 5th Annual Greenbelt Green Man Festival was on May 8th-10th. Excellent little show. Happens in historic Greenbelt, Maryland at the Art Deco Roosevelt Center. We have attended 3 of the last 4 shows there, only missing a year due to car trouble and stress from our move. It's a great show, other than some logistic difficulties, and the last of our small community shows we do. Everything else is large events drawing thousands, but due to that wonderful theme, celebrating the Green Man and Ecology, and the fact that we have an excellent collector base that makes it profitable, and it being run by several friends, and getting to stay with our dear Sister/Friend Heather and her family..well, we keep coming back.



( Come along to see lots more pictures... )

A recent picture from the final weekend of the Maryland Renaissance Festival, snatched from Flickr. A full update on MDRF and the FaerieCon event is coming soon. Until then...all I have to say...is, "Man, I am tired"....
Kubinado

In which there was no "Theme" for the weekend, so we made out own, of pictures and cute babies...but wait, that is what we do every weekend...



( lots more pictures, as always, behind the cut... )

I wish I had more pictures to share, but alas we were TOO BUSY! However, I took a few.
For example, my face was hung on a wall...



( A few more pictures, but only a few, and some stories behind the cut... )

Last Saturday, June 14, we attended Potomac Celtic Festival. It started as the previous weekend had been, at Maryland Faerie Festival. A threat of extreme heat. And then things went down hill. But we "weathered" it and survived. Thankful that it could have been much worse but wasn't. And for some of the crafts people, it was.

However, it started off just as pretty as a picture...



( Click through for a few more pictures and a tale of heat and storms... )