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I shot about 1,500 frames at the dance rehearsal last night. There’s no doubt about it: this year’s bunch of kids can really jump.
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Xanadu, Kansas
Robert posted “Kublai Khan” today. I just happen to have here a damsel with a dulcimer. She’s Wenzhuo Zhang, who took first place in the National Hammered Dulcimer Championship at Winfield Saturday. Although Zhang lists her address as Fredonia, NY, I believe she’s originally from Beijing, and she plays the Chinese dulcimer, the yangqin. Here’s a view of her instrument, showing the multiple bridges.
Here’s one of the pieces she played in the competition.
Front porch II
What happens when you combine Irish dancing with Talk Like a Pirate Day?
Cutlass dancing.
My friends and I stopped at the relocated Carp Camp on the way home from Winfield last night. Here’s a bit of the music we heard:
The sound isn’t wonderful (crank it up), but it might give you an idea of the energy flowing there.
There will be many more pictures of Winfield and Carp Camp when I have time to sort and edit everything in the camera.
Front porch (detail)
Morning at Botanica
Purple and green
Spotted on the way to work this morning. (The color is not quite accurate; the flowers are less blue and more purple than they appear here.)
Amazing dance
Some more pictures from the May dance concert. These are of an interpretation of a rather funky arrangement of “Amazing Grace.”
A little ballet
It looks like I need to find some different software for my photo gallery. The package I’m using now, “Gallery,” is insisting that I upgrade, but the upgrade won’t install and I haven’t figured a way around it. In the meantime, here are some photos that I would have uploaded there. These are from the dress rehearsal for Rogers Ballet spring concert last May at Friends University in Wichita.
Botanica, yet again
Ballet in the Park
The other ballet company in Wichita performed their version of “Peter Pan” yesterday outdoors as the temperature approached 90°F. More pictures here.
Aechmea
Achillea
I’ve added a few more pictures to the gallery.
Baptisia australis
Dress rehearsal I
(more to come)
Picture day
Not everyone was fascinated by the dancers posing for their group portraits this afternoon.
Claret cup cactus
Echinocereus triglochidiatus
At the botanical garden, again
I finally felt steady enough on my feet to take the good camera out to Botanica, and I filled a two-gigabyte card. I posted a selection of pictures at my gallery.