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     the kerrville folk festival has come and gone.  it's an 18 day (more like a month if you do it right) extravaganza of music and family and camping and exhaustion and bliss.  elizabeth and i met there, fell in love there, got engaged there, got married there, and bring our little girl there.  maggie is only a year and a half, but she's been to three festivals already.  (one in-utero, one at six months, and this year).  since maggie's arrival we have only been able to go for the weekends, which has taken some getting used to.

     the volounteer staff that runs the festival is made up of a wide range of folks, many of them incredible musicians and writers.  this photo is taken by the staff rekerrds which is set up for staff musicians to sell their cd's and merchandise.  there are multiple daily shows on that stage behind us where grace is standing in her purple skirt.

     to compensate for doing only weekends, we invited a bunch of friends and my dad to come and camp on our land after the festival.  for another week we ate together, played music together, talked, and laughed and hung out in the texas oven-of-summer.

     swinging from a shade tree is a good thing to do in the middle of the day.

     

     and then we have a little cereal and a nap.