Will You Still Be Sending Me a Valentine

[austin_dern]

My days continue to be too busy with matters not yet fit to be shared, so please enjoy Fairy Ball pictures while I hope this situation soon changes.

They started taking volunteers for a Lion Dance and bunnyhugger joined the first and, it turned out, only group to perform.

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Folks gathered around, getting their parts and getting instructions on what to do.

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As an old marching band hand bunnyhugger was well-equipped to march correctly, unlike other people.

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Here, someone makes off with a set of speakers while everyone else watches the dragon.

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Frame from the middle of my movie of the dragon dancing.

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And here we're near the end, the dragon's final bow.

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Another sword-fighting demonstration, this time by night so everything looks blurry.

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Alternatively, everyone looks really, really fast!

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The end of the demonstration. Seconds gather up the participants.

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And into the night and the wedding reception.

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One of the communal art projects was painting these fairy mushroom scenes on the right.

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Here's one of the completed boards.

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Trivia: In the last year of Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz's life (1873) he ran a summer school for natural history, at the seashore on Penikese Island, off the southern shore of Massachusetts. Around 50 to 60 people attended. Source: Yankee Science in the Making, Dirk J Struik. (The island would in the 20th century house a leper hospital and, later, a residential school for troubled boys and is now a bird sanctuary.)

Currently Reading: Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator, Keith Houston.