Mushrooms Originally uploaded by AllisonStein Here’s a little piece of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival. Some of the outdoor stages have hay bales as seating. Some are sprouting greenery. Others are sprouting fungi. It was a bit damp out there today, so we left early and missed the Jolly Rogers All Request Show and the Pub Sing. However, but we did manage to catch an early Jolly Rogers show, a performance by the Musical Blades,…

Toes in the sand, Cocoa Beach FL Originally uploaded by AllisonStein The obligatory toes in the sand photo…. Took a nice walk along the beach this morning. When I returned to the hotel, I took the wrong path and had to go around to the front of the hotel. As I sat outside trying to get the sand off my feet, a guy of fannish proportions in a dripping wet swim suit walked up, carrying…