A friend and I, along with DD (who still claims we scare her) returned to Windsor, ME for the second day of the Fiber Frolic. Between us, we probably have shot over 300 photographs of animals, events, fibery things and people. I will be making installments as the week progresses.
Many bloggers I recognized websites were there - Adrian , Amy , Kim , & Chris were the ones I was aware of being there. There were probably others I either missed or haven't run across their blogs yet. It was good to put some faces to blogs....
The llamas seemed to have more attitude than the alpacas. The llamas clearly seem to have far more expressive ears however. One young male was trying to climb over the pen railings to go visiting.... when he was led back to his pen today, he was waving his ears at
his friends who were already inside their pen. The llama owners indicated that the llamas don't like to sniff your hands to get to know you like a dog does. They just don't like hands. But they are okay about having their necks petted.
Then there were the growls of one llama who wasn't impressed with our efforts to photograph the him/her. The llamas were harder to photograph, perhaps because they don't like seeing hands, but also because of their height, the outdoor lighting overexposed most of my pictures! (Photoshop didn't help fix it, either) One alpaca had quite the set of teeth,
which showed well. I think in this photo he was chewing some hay - his bite isn't off to the side!
And of course, one couldn't go to the Frolic without seeing at least one clown - this one a llama with multicolored clown wig on his head, and clown pants covering his behind....
Usually at the Fiber Frolic, the sheep dog demonstrations command quite a crowd. This year, it rained both days, so it seemed most people concentrated inside the barns. In the past when I've been to Fiber Frolic, I was not aware that there were vendors inside the animal barns as well, so I missed some very creative people with some wonderful items.
you got some wicked picks of the llama's!
I love that first one looks like he's just about to say Helllllllllooooooooooooo!
Posted by: Kelly | Monday, June 12, 2006 at 06:04