A small bit of something from Pinball At The Zoo. A friend we hadn't seen in person in months was there and when I saw them reflexively said they were looking good and hugged. I meant something more like I was glad to see them because they were not looking good. I'd remembered hearing something about their having a major medical problem but had gone to forget the details and now ... well, they've still got it.
It was prominent enough that someone who used to be in Lansing Pinball League and hasn't made the last couple seasons tried to pump me for information. I didn't have any, though, and even if I did I'd be reluctant about sharing anything not explicitly told to share. This is why I'm being so vague; I imagine this essay will prompt my and ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's memory in the future but you'd hopefully have to do more detective work than you think worthwhile to work out personal information.
But to give some scale of things: bunnyhugger was approached by someone from out-of-state who didn't know the friend, but did extract a promise from bunnyhugger to pass on information about how to sign up for clinical trials. Out-of-stater was apparently not aware that everyone who has a serious or chronic condition knows more about it and their options than anyone, including medical professionals who specialize in the condition. I know this is all expressions of compassion. People who barely know the friend want well for them. It also left me glad that nobody can spot me as a prostate cancer haver, though. I'd be so embarrassed getting attention.
This was such a tiny part of Pinball At The Zoo and yet it's probably the bit I'll remember years from now.
To photographs, now. After our big trip we had a good week or so before doing anything else, which was getting to the last hour or so of the Fairy Tale Festival at the Turner-Dodge House. Once again we missed FAE and most anyone else we might have known, but it was a nice time wandering around there. Please enjoy some pictures to prove it really existed.
The columns surrounding the trellis that I think is meant for wedding party photographs got bits of fabric wrapped around them and these flowers set up as part of ... well, do you see what it's for?
Yes, it was part of an Alice In Wonderland setting. Here's the caterpillar somewhere way up top of the mushroom.
And an invitation to tea and eating.
bunnyhugger, wearing the summer weight version of her jackalope guise, poses for a picture with the White Rabbit.
And then she sits down for tea, and can not believe this guy.
And here's a close-up of one of those flowers seen earlier; turns out it's a whole person, more or less.
Trivia: Pyrolusite (manganese dioxide) was used by glass makers in the Middle Ages to remove the greenish tint of natural glass; a small amount made the glass clear. Larger amounts would tint the glass purple. Source: Molecules at an Exhibition: The Science of Everyday Life, John Emsley.
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