{"id":7191,"date":"2017-07-14T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7191"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:42:32","slug":"7191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=7191","title":{"rendered":"picnic, outdoors, and running off to the circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was one of those times when I dozed off on the couch with audiobook and cat and knitting before writing my blog post. So you get my three beautiful things from this past week, which also counts for Carole &#038; Kat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/caroleknits.net\/2017\/07\/13\/think-write-thursday-29\/\">Think Write Thursday<\/a>, this morning instead:<\/p>\n<p><center><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35750112726\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Summer Evening\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4205\/35750112726_600aacd310.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Summer Evening\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>1. A group of us gathered for a Friday evening picnic. The band was doing &#8217;80s covers, there was a breeze (which admittedly turned into a bit of a less beautiful wind strong enough to throw Sarah&#8217;s beer at her), and we could see fireworks in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>2. We&#8217;re now fully into outdoor movie season where you can catch a flick nearly any night if you&#8217;re willing to travel a bit, so Rudi and I tempered hot days of a heat wave spent indoors with nights spent in parks. We watched <em>A League of Their Own<\/em> on the riverbank in Georgetown and <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark<\/em> in the park by our house. Living in a city, anytime you can find a grassy area, the temperature is at least five degrees cooler and proximity to a river will drop it another five. <\/p>\n<p>3. Every year, the Smithsonian puts on a FolkLife Festival in the two weeks on either side of July 4th. This year marked its 50th anniversary, so they did it up big by taking us to the circus, giving us trapeze artists, aerialists, acrobats, jugglers, tightrope walkers, and even one of the 70 remaining sword swallowers left in the United States:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35798087176\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Puppetry\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4229\/35798087176_2c0621f6a1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Puppetry\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35028550163\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Trapeze Artists\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4240\/35028550163_a4b0fccab9.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Trapeze Artists\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/34997949234\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Trapeze Artists\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4209\/34997949234_776381a048.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Trapeze Artists\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35450060250\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Acrobatic Dancers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4255\/35450060250_98042bffe3.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Acrobatic Dancers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35797946806\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Tightrope Walkers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4212\/35797946806_abcf6f5ef4.jpg\" width=\"310\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Tightrope Walkers\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35706286541\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Aerialist\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4212\/35706286541_aeaf1693e5.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Aerialist\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35798019216\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Sword Swallower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4266\/35798019216_64c116097a.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Sword Swallower\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35798006266\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- Sword Swallower\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4214\/35798006266_fd5b8542de.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"381\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- Sword Swallower\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/35450259770\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Circus Arts -- After the Show\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4284\/35450259770_c1f0b3897d.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Circus Arts -- After the Show\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(All those indoor shots are of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bindlestiff.org\">Bindlestiff Family Cirkus<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>How about you? 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