No, not just SCA camping. :)
To start with, however, Pennsic was okay; mostly forgettable. That was kind of the point, I was really hoping to have little to do besides relax, read, write, and party a bit, and then of course have the I Genesii performance. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I never really got into the right mindset and mostly failed at all of it, though the show seems to have been quite a hit (thanks for the hand,
fauvel!), and doing cameos with other troupes is always entertaining. So, for this year, theater = good, everything else = meh.
Since we left on Tuesday, though, and gorgeous weather the rest of the week, we took the opportunity to go mundanely camping this past weekend at Ryerson Station, which is almost to the very southwestern corner of PA. It's small but with a variety of ecosystems -- forest, meadow, marsh -- with wildlife to match. We saw a number of interesting dragonflies (my google fu is failing at the moment; one was almost all red with black wings, another had black wings with white dots at the tips). The weekend's bird sightings included a pileated woodpecker and indigo bunting (!) and about a gazillion goldfinches. Owls were heard surprisingly early, and there was somebody out there who kept making singular hoots all day.
So, camping. And now unpacking from both trips. And wondering if we really should make, say, an 8x8 wall tent for taking to state parks. :)
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