Celtic Festival--Part Two

One more animal shot...here is the star of the show: Fairlight Jasper--he was all over people just wanting one more scratch, one more chin rub--please! He had been sheared just a few weeks before the festival so was a good comparison to my two in fleece lambs, and Angus (his stall mate) who had about a three month fleece growth.


Next we have the telephone pole toss, um, I mean the Caber Toss. These are a series of pictures, unfortunately not of the same fellow, depicting the steps. It was very hard to get a picture of the pole as it was tossed! It blows my mind that they do this anyway. Even if I by some miracle got it the pole off the ground, it would surely topple over and kill me.


Here are two kilted fellows strolling along, deep in conversation. Not sure what that is on the ones shoulder. An arrow pouch perhaps? Surely it's not camera bag or something modern like that?

And I couldn't resist one more of the wolfhounds. Laughingly enough they call one of the four dogs 'the little one' because he is slightly smaller than the others.


Here come The Kilties! They are an all girl marching band and do a very fine job!


Lastly here are a couple photos of the clans. There were more clans of course, but I won't make you look at all of them!



All in all a nice way to pass the day. This year I again had fish n chips for lunch (and they were mighty good and maybe just a little (lot) greasy)! I also had a pastie which I took home to eat. I mistakenly thought it was a sweet treat, but instead it was a delicious little meat pie, about the size of a muffin. As usual I also bought a plate size shortbread cookie and three small springerle cookies, all of which I took home to enjoy later. Food was my only purchases of the day, since the coffee was free! ;-)

I'm thinking next year I might bring sheep and a collie(s)...but until then, sheep need to be halter broken (and socialized), collie puppies need to be born, and I need to get busy making some woolly crafty items!