Here is photographic evidence of three places I visited yesterday, starting with the SCA Renaissance Faire at the Herschell Carousel Museum in North Tonawanda (I don't think carousels date from the medieval period, but the combo somehow works in the contemporary context).
Later I headed down to the Erie Basin Marina with friends Bill and Rick at dusk to take some pictures. Here's one with Buffalo's City Hall looming up in the background behind some sailboats.
Last, a shot of Bill taking a picture of an oncoming Metro train standing in the middle of Main Street, long after everybody else has headed home. If that green tinge in the background looks familiar, it's because you saw it in the previous picture: it's City Hall again, but this time looking at it from the southeast instead of the northwest.
Here is photographic evidence of three places I visited yesterday, starting with the SCA Renaissance Faire at the Herschell Carousel Museum in North Tonawanda (I don't think carousels date from the medieval period, but the combo somehow works in the contemporary context).
Later I headed down to the Erie Basin Marina with friends Bill and Rick at dusk to take some pictures. Here's one with Buffalo's City Hall looming up in the background behind some sailboats.
Last, a shot of Bill taking a picture of an oncoming Metro train standing in the middle of Main Street, long after everybody else has headed home. If that green tinge in the background looks familiar, it's because you saw it in the previous picture: it's City Hall again, but this time looking at it from the southeast instead of the northwest.
2 comments:
Actually early forms of carousels were used to train knights on the art of jousting... later they were formatted for the general public to have fun riding them.
Don't you love history =)
Lil' Sis
PS you forgot to wish Marenka a happy birthday.... 21 years old.... fyi =)
That event is called "the Brass Ring Thing" and that is also a connection to the Knight's training - spearing the brass ring with their lance. I know I saw a program once that showed an old carousel that had rings for riders to grab as they went around(might have been at Coney Island, but not sure about that)
T
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