Grand Marais

Here are a couple more from the pageant and one of Cindy learning how to use a lathe powered by a spring pole.

summer solstice pageant

Here are three photographs from the Grand Marais summer solstice pageant, probably the highlight of our trip to the north shore. The story of the pageant this year was the Boundary Waters fire known now as the Ham Lake Fire. It was very fun, starting with a fellow driving with his dog to his northwoods cabin, news of the fire on the radio, the evacuation and comfort provided by the "comfort goddess," a dance between the fire god and the wind god, then comes the fire dragon, next the rain goddess and the local firefighters, and finally the sun god all lead to a parade of little green sprouts played by small children among bigger kids on stilts looking like burnt trees. Very cool.