Where in the world is Jon?: Lightning in a Bottle --Part 3--The Final Chapter

LIB continued:

As the afternoon tilted and evening approached things got more strange and wonderful.

At times less wonderful and more strange.

I have always loved and awed at the beguiling surreal beauty and art that is stilt walking. On this day, I was treated to many lovely spectacles on longed legs.

We spied this Daliesque creature walking all hurky jerky across the field. She was listing about looking like she would topple all the while, wielding a beer bottle in her hand all the while.

When we caught up to her, she was holding court with some young-uns up in a tree. As Skye approached, the giraffe-like creature beaconed her and quiered, "Do you like to climb trees? This is a wonderful tree to climb. Do want to join us?"

It was like a scene from "Alice and Wonderland"

Skye was captivated.

And then off to see the aerial art shows, one of our main objectives of the day.

How does she do that?

This odd faerie had also been up in the hoop, but because of the angle of the sun and such, I never was able to get a proper shot.

After the aerial hoop performance all we had to do was turn a few degrees to be treated to a kaleidoscope of musical acts.

There were several really fun, eclectic bands. Do I remember any of their names now? So sorry.

The truth is that the costume choices of the crowd were at least as interesting and evocative as those of the shows.

Faux fur was all the rage. Sometimes it work, sort of, I guess

Other times it didn't work.

When it got dark the performances got really wild. My descriptions wouldn't do them justice, too magical, too surreal, too long ago for my fading memory.

But I will cast out words and bits of images that come to my mind;

pole dancing more like pole stunts on a 30ft pole, electrical tape as clothing, stilt walking creatures born of Sesame Street and Tim Burton, fire dancing, aerial arts and aerial dance, mad skills, mad costumes

I tried to take a picture but .....