Faeries Wear Boots and You Got To Believe Me

Jen and I went to The Faery World Festival in Eugene today. This was the event we planned our vacation around. The last two times we came out here we missed it (last year one of our favorite authors, Holly Black, attended.) It was originally scheduled at a winery but it was sold and the festival moved to a different location. Unfortunately, it was still blazing hot out. But nonetheless we still had a good time. We also spent a shit load of money. I’m such a sucker for alternative clothes its sickening. In fact whenever I come out here, especially in Portland, I drop a lot of cash on clothes for Jenni. I'm one of those boyfriends/husbands that likes to buy his girlfriend/wife clothes. Cool clothes. And she always looks awesome in them. Its a good thing we didn’t bring a lot cash to the festival because we would have spent it all (there was this top hat I wanted but she wouldn’t take a credit card.) Jenni did treat me, actually she said it was an early birthday present, to a kilt. I’ve been wanting a black one, for awhile now and I finally found it. Jenni wanted me to have one longer than I wanted one, by the way. Its cool as shit.

One of my favorite photographers, J. Corsentino , was there showing off his Time Of The Faeries collection. I love the imagination of his work, not mention his creative use of the models. This along the lines of something I’d like to do. It was great to meet him, too. If I had the money (and thank the gods I didn’t) I probably would have bought a lot more of his prints. Awesome work, really. There were bands playing all day and through the evening. Today was good faery day, tomorrow is bad faery day. We haven’t decided whether we’re going tomorrow. We could go back tonight (we had our hands stamped) but we’d have to pay an entrance fee again for tomorrow. But its going to hot again so I’d rather go in the evening but we already have plans. Oh well.

Anyways, yesterday we went out to to Crater Lake. Its a giant lake that’s a volcano that collapsed about 7700 years ago. Its one of the most beautiful sites I’ve ever seen. Really. It took us about two maybe three hours to get out there. Incredible. I’ve never seen water so blue in my life. We did a lot of walking. And I took a lot of pictures, close to 500. I haven’t even begun to sort through them and tag them so it’ll be a while before I post them, probably when I get home. I really don’t feel like doing that on the road, after all I am on vacation.