renaissance festival

We spent a lazy day wandering at the renaissance festival yesterday with a Dear One laughing and sharing and munching on treats. The Maryland Renaissance Festival is built permanently in a forested glen, so everything is always the same each year and you always know where to find the honey sellers, coin jewelry makers, the glassblower, mask makers, and all the other vendors who make the event unforgettable. It seems to be the same cast of characters from year to year, the same guy on the high wire begging you to not look up his kilt, and many of the same artisans. It is a familiar event in my life that I appreciate ~ and a rare day of rest.