Bluegrass Festival!

Locally today we had the "Beer, Brats, and Bluegrass Festival". Now personally I can't vouch for the quality of the beer they had available, but the brats were good, and the music was good.  :)

One of the vendors had some gator sausage, they talked me into trying some.  It was pretty tasty, but since it was sausage...I didn't really see where it was that different from sausage made from anything else.  Their Jambalaya was excellent though!

There seemed to be a few more vendors this year, which was nice, and there were a LOT more people this year compared to last year.

Overall, it was a fun even...and there are even fireworks tonite!

Who's the Fairest?

Snow White and the Huntsman...it was a good movie. Even very good, I didn't think it was legendary though. I've had to think about this one a bit, and sift through my thoughts on the movie after the movie. Its doing very well in the theaters, so well that there is disturbing news that a second movie has been green-lighted. (If you haven't seen anything about the movie yet, check out my post HERE for a trailer.)

Naturally the movie is a little predictable, it is a fairy tale after all. I like the dark take on the movie... it shouldn't be all roses, there's a wicked witch killing, poisoning, destroying... Disney kinda glosses over that fact in their version. That wasn't the problem.

The acting was all good I thought. I liked Kristen Stewart as Snow White. She's not the traditional (again Disney) Snow White, there's no little birdies chirping to her, no merry songs as she cleans a cottage. Its a dark, cruel world. A world ruled by hate and malevolence. Kristen Stewart fits into this world. She's an armor wearing, sword wielding Snow White, and that works.

Summertime!

We're starting to see regular 80 degree weather now, and that means we're finally on our way to summertime! Summer is really the ultimate low stress month. Although many of us (me included) still put in lots of hours, there's so much to do outdoors, that its hard to stay inside.

This image here I took of our wonderful main street. The city really goes all out to hang up and put out lots of amazing flowers. Where I live there is so much to do, it often feels like summer isn't nearly long enough (and it really isn't) to get them all done.