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<<Fat Tuesday gig down in Tulsa.

Here it comes! Saturday night at our Spring Rendezvous. Thank God it waited till after dinner.>>

<<Me knocking them dead at the Tallgrass Music Festival with the Ugly song.

Trish at a previous year's festival.>>

Winfield is a unique experience that everyone should have the chance to savor? at least once. Organized chaos,
I imagine it doubles the size of the town for a week or two. It all starts with Land Run/Rush. Some people regard it as part
of the thrill of Winfield. Others of us regard it as stupidity gone to seed and a genuinely royal pain in the ass.

Land Run actually starts weeks before the festival as people jockey to get positions at the head of the line.

<<Our official spot in line.

Land run morning. Gazing down the row waiting for the lower numbers to pull out.>>

A lot of camps have a theme. Some of them quite punny.

Crab Camp has been at this same corner for as long as I can remember. Carp Camp is another long standing
fixture of Winfield. In contrast to most campground music sessions which are jams, the people at Carp Camp rehearse,
play from music, and are directed by a band leader (seated at left with mandolin).

<<Crab Camp.

Carp Camp .>>

The official festival lasts four days. However, many people come a week earlier so they can sit around the campground
and pick and make a true vacation out of it. Accommodations vary from your basic tent, to an almost infinite variety
of mobile devices.

<<Your basic red-neck rig with your basic red-neck bathing facilities.

Uniquely original.>>

We know the fella who owns the rig on the right. It would make a country star proud. Rumor has it that it is fully self contained and equipped with a small nuclear reactor that will provide all the light and power that it requires forever ;-)

<<Plush opulence.>>

Here is our Waldorf on wheels and the mighty steed that pulls it.

<<Plush opulence -- not.>>

Some people can be quite fanatical about their yearly trip to Winfield. There are die hard fans who won't let anything stop them from coming!

<<Chilling out before the festival actually starts and things get serious.

Get it right! We'll be on stage shortly.>>

Once again, Trish was invited to play with Joann Smith and friends. This group is really heavy on musical talent. Playing three out of the four main stages, many times over, at Winfield ain't bad.

Especially when one of them is the revered Stage 1.

<<Trish taking a bow in front of an adoring crowd on Stage 1.

Can you find us?>>

Later in the fall we played a freebie with some friends at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve
just north of Pawhuska.

<<Playing.

The standing ovation we received. Who can put a price on that?>>

The huge tank shown below was fabricated in Ponca City and carted to the Port of Catoosa (near Tulsa) where it was loaded
onto a barge and shipped down river to Louisiana. It was carried on a 96-wheel flatbed traveling at 5 mph. Along the way,
utility wires, etc. had to be lifted. The trip took several days and was constantly detailed in the news.

<<On our way up to the preserve we got up close and personal with a buffalo herd.

Our token miscellaneous pic.>>

I'll bet you never thought about Rudolph having relatives. Have a listen to the adventures of his cousin, Leroy. It should put a holiday smile on your face. Please remember to sign our guestbook before you leave. Thanks.