The Nor Cal Rabble at the Dunsmuir Games 09

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Hello Jamie, how are you today.
I enjoyed these pictures of Dunsmuir games.
What a mixture of activity and that house is
out of this world. Like your wife's umbrella so cool.

[McMurdo]

Love the photos, it is nice when someone wants your photo at a Highland Games, at last years Fergus Highland Games I was asked for my photo a few times the best was when a couple of Japanese tourists told me I was the most Scottish person they had seen at the games and asked for photos, that one still brings a smile to me face.

Thanks for the Morgan photos as well.

[MacKay71]

Thanks for the pics!

[mudd]

Hey man, I think that's a great way to avoid the Sun. I'd do it myself, if I thought I could get away with it. (Different color maybe.)

My beautiful Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess certainly knows how to stand out in the crowd!

[ghostlight]

Great photos, Panache. There are some especially good action shots of the athletes. Thank you for posting them.

[Sheep In Wolf's Clothing]

What a wondferful setting for a highland games. All of you look great!
Thanks again,
Sara
:ootd:

[Smayniac]

I have a couple of shots of the kids in action; they were "making fertilizer."


I really like the tartan of Sinbad's kilt, I'm told it's a Joann's special.




Okay, this isn't kids, and I don't think it's Alan either, but it's such a nice shot of a caber in motion, I just had to post it.

Bob

[Zardoz]

Great photos Jamie! What a cool setting for Highland Games! Everyone looked great, even the folks some might not consider 'correctly dressed'!


PS.. thanks for not posting any picures of those ugly Aero-8 termite traps.

[LANCER1562]

Unfortunatelly, the batteries in my camera died so I have no pictures of the hand-fasting (wedding) to post and I don't know how to copy and paste pics from someone else's post. However I will do my best to explain what is going on in the picture that Panache posted from th Dunsmuir Highland Games over the past weekend.

I am a memeber of a living history re-enacment guild the re-creates the Royal Court of Mary Stewart (Mary, Queen of Scots and the Isles) c.1562.





The two people in the picture are members of our guild who met a Ren a few ago years and fell in love. They are Sir Richard Wallace (his real name) Lord High Sheriff of Edinburgh and Valerie Smith (Lady Valerie MacKenzie-Royal Secretary of the Guild of St. Gyles). The man in the very fancy white costume is our guild master who portrays James Stewart - The Earl of Moray (the Queen's half-brother) for any historians among us. He is also an ordianed Jesuit priest.

Various items are brought in one by one (each with its own meaning):

The bowl of water to holy the ground.
bread, salt, wine, (the meanings of which I'm not too sure of as I was sitting where I couldn't see or hear very well). There is also an egg which sybolises fertility. A sword is placed what would be the threshold, if the ceremon were held in a building, to keep enemies away. The coupled wrists are bound together with different colored ribbons- eac signifying a different virtue.

I will try to get a copy of the script.

This ceremony is performed as it would have been done in the 16th century.

Several members of the audience commented on how beautiful the ceremony was. A number of ladies and some men said that they wanted a similar ceremony for their wedding.

I will try to get pictures and video that were shot by some of our guild folk to post in the near future.

Robert

[GDub]

Great pics! Mags and I really have to make it to one these Nor Cal rabble meet-ups...