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  • Hi Ken, Your Photos are great! Even if you think they aren't. We all are often enough victims of circumstances. Now The Straw Bear Festival. That's really interesting! Trough I don't understand a whole lot. What is that all about? Looks to me like a mix between the US American Halloween and Mardi Grass, the Central- and South American Carnaval and the Mexican Day of the Dead. I believe it has something to do with Fat Thursday, Good Friday and Ash Wednesday. [The Easter Molly's] Dos it? Thanks for your nice entries in my GB. If there is a bug conspiracy you beat us to it. You introduced the two bugs. Now the are close friends. Hug Carolynn for me. Warm Mex-bug hugs Heidi

  • said cleo85100

  • 2006.05.27 at 20:31:41 PDT

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  • G'day Ken - I've had great fun watching all these great characters, dancers, ploughs and listening to the carnival sounds flying off these shots. I've learned a heap about a festival I hadn't heard of before - and your captions and comments added a lot to the experience. I do hope the ploughboys ended up with enough $$ to tide them over the winter ;> Thanks a million! ((hugs)) Lorraine - Australia

  • said aussiegypsy

  • 2006.04.25 at 04:24:02 PDT

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  • HI Ken, thanks for your comments on my album. Looking at this your maskerade album, I suggest you to take a look at my two carnival albums. Human's creativity with no end. cheers, Konrad

  • said kmebert

  • 2006.03.20 at 15:51:15 PST

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  • Hi Ken well... very interesting dont know anything behind this parade, but i know its very colorful and some pretty scarry looking caracters, hopefuly nobody trows there lit cigarette at the straw man he woulds go up in smoke pretty fast lol. thanks for sharing also forgot to thank you for your kind comment in my faces in the back ground . Will be glad when the snow is gone so i get busy outside for change, thanks my friend hugs Jean

  • said jac707

  • 2006.03.17 at 16:46:06 PST

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  • Hi Ken, this is the right album for me! A straw bear festival! I didn't know about it! I lik for all these wonderful photos as well your interesting captions. Thank you very much for your kind words in the guestbook of my featured album "Panda Bears - Winter Scenes". I was sooo happy! Greetings from Vienna (Austria), Vera

  • said veralebail

  • 2006.03.11 at 04:48:44 PST

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  • Doodlebugs up? O.k. then I'll shoot. First my dear friend must not be afraid of American "das U-boot", next time I'll be more careful with my wording, sorry. Dankeschoen for cracking me up again this morning with these photos! Reminds me of the native costumes of the new guinea tribes I looked at in Rustedguitarman albums last night. GOD Webshots is a great place, ain't it???? Have a funtastic day!!! Marita

  • said worldtripper3

  • 2006.03.09 at 08:43:18 PST

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  • This is great Ken!We nearly came to watch the parade this year,but as you say,the weather wasn't very good.We have seen the Pig Dyke Molly dancers a few times,they are certainly different!Some friends used to dance with the Bourne Molly & as for the Old Glory...scary!!Wouldn't like to meet one of them on a dark night!!LOL Must go,2 more albums to look at.Hugs,Angela.

  • said osprey137

  • 2006.02.22 at 14:19:04 PST

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  • Dear Ken, thank you for your congratulatory message today!It seems we are both under a lucky star at present. Best of regards to you and lady, Yoshiyuki Tanaka

  • said tanaka62

  • 2006.02.13 at 04:24:37 PST

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  • Hi Ken, this is certainly an interesting and informative album. It doesn't matter that the day was gloomy, there's plenty of colour and life in your photos. Thanks for your kind words on my Gumnuts album, they were appreciated. For what it's worth, I have a wicked sense of the ridiculous, and believe a point can be made as well through humour as an ernest rant. Keep up the good work, cheers, Keith.

  • said magikeith

  • 2006.02.12 at 12:38:00 PST

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  • Hi Ken, well no one can say they aren't colorful. They sure seemed to be having a ball.I asked you some questions on the last g/b entry and i didn't get any answers if you don't like answering them that's fine but if you don't like ansering them in the questbook i'll send you my email.Let me know which please. Thanks for sharing this album it's great and thanks for those two hugs they helped, the weather has been cold for the last while. All donations gladly accepted.lol. Have a good one my friend...Claudette

  • said mamabear250

  • 2006.02.10 at 17:40:25 PST

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  • Hi Ken! I am sure you had a great time at the Festival in spite of the dull weather. I found it interesting to learn about the Straw Bear Festival and enjoyed seeing the colourful costumes. Well done. Thankyou for your kind words and I hope you find my calendars useful. As for the Blog -- keep writing, if you have something on your mind, then stick to it! Just wish it wasn't so time-consuming to read. Best wishes.. Gladys.

  • said gladysclancy

  • 2006.02.02 at 22:31:19 PST

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  • Ken this is a great album!! What fantastic costumes, love the walking haystacks. Looks lke a fun time this festival. Where you serious about adding a baby photo of yourself to my album? Take care, Laura

  • said Nannygoose

  • 2006.02.02 at 12:16:05 PST

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  • Hi Ken, and thank you for your entry in my "Brooksville Raid" album. I agree with you that these reenactments are fun and thank goodness some care to be involved or we'd never get the feelings of earlier times. BTW, I watched a 45-min. online video of the Battle of Trafalgar last summer when a fellow we know was on the US Eagle Tall Ship in Europe for the affair. ... Yes, we'll take care in "all this sunshine"; it was 82 today with a forecast high of ONLY 67 tomorrow. *grin* ... Keep Carolynn warm! Judy

  • said ladybug591

  • 2006.01.24 at 15:39:29 PST

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  • Dear Ken, thought it was time I wrote in this Guestbook although I had looked at the pictures a few days ago Webshots seemed to have settled down a bit now and GB entries work. If only you could have brought us the noise of all the dancing and the Morris Mens bells too ;O) too It looks so much fun this festival and a lot of fun to watch and take part in Thanks for showing us what it was like Hope you are keeping warm now Love and Hugs Jill

  • said jillbatchelor

  • 2006.01.24 at 08:16:30 PST

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  • Hi Ken, great photos of the festival, wish I could have been there. A unique experience of England, nothing like this in the rest of the world (watch everyone load photos of their festivals now I said that!). Great to see these things being kept alive. Eric

  • said ericy202

  • 2006.01.23 at 07:19:08 PST

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  • Hi Ken...loved looking at ALL the pix, what a sight to see. And your photos are GREAT!!! Thanks for the show! - Hugs, claudia

  • said gardenlady110

  • 2006.01.22 at 19:33:20 PST

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  • Hi Ken,,,,, very interesting photos. The parade looks like it was a lot of fun. I love the cotumes. Thank you for sharing this. hugs and hogs,,,,,,,,,,Christy

  • said savage_gardener

  • 2006.01.22 at 19:32:33 PST

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  • What a unique theme for a festival, Ken! Great shots from you as always! Thanks for sharing this with us all! Love & hugs and hogs, Candi

  • said candistackable

  • 2006.01.22 at 14:26:24 PST

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  • Hi Ken! What an unusual and entertaining event! So many outrageous costumes! The colors are incredible! Sure looks like a fun time was had by all. Thanks for sharing "The Straw Bear Festival" with us all..take care dear friend...say HI to Carolynn...love and hugs galore...Dar

  • said briansbabe2

  • 2006.01.22 at 07:38:05 PST

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  • Hello Ken. Very entertaining your album of 'The Straw Bear Festival'. So many troupes.... I love to attend these kind of festivals. They're such fun and it looks like you had a grand time with all the many photos you got despite the poor weather. I'm so glad that these traditions don't die out...I am thinking of posting an album called 'Post Boxes from around the World'. As I have a passion for ours, I think I'd find it fascinating to see how they look further afield. So I shall be asking for help, obviously with this project. Can I use your yellow post box from Cyprus? The credit will go to you naturally. Let me know? Cheers, Jayne xx

  • said hjaynefoster

  • 2006.01.22 at 05:17:08 PST

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  • G'day Ken. This is a great little album mate. Good Golly Miss Molly! It's a hoot. I was going to pick a favourite group but I couldn't because they are all terrific. Well done mate. Catch you later. Cheers, or should I say Cockadoodledoo. Al.

  • said shortshooter

  • 2006.01.21 at 22:39:02 PST

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  • finally able to get back on the site to see your Straw Bear Festival after seeing the website for it. WooHoo and Cheers my friend.

  • said sodapop90

  • 2006.01.20 at 18:28:45 PST

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  • Hi Ken, I'm glad you told me about this album. Because they haven't been able to help me yet, with downloading the Webshots desktop, I'm not being notified of my favorites, new albums. What a fun album, and a fun festival. Please send me album invites to my regular email address, not the Yahoo address. I'd really appreciate it. Love n hugs, The old biddy, Sharon

  • said sharwils2

  • 2006.01.19 at 11:43:03 PST

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  • Not a clue what the Straw Bear Festival is about but it sure looks like fun. Colorful costumes to say the least. Love the Pub sign at the end....

  • said sodapop90

  • 2006.01.19 at 05:44:02 PST

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  • Good morning Ken and what a delightful 'tour' I've had of your "Straw Bear Festival." What fun!!! I haven't been over to Epcot at Disneyworld in a number of years but at the British display they had dancers - I don't think they were "Mollies" though. Their costumes were covered with buttons - hundreds of them. Anyway, I hope you had as much fun taking these shots as I have looking through them, closely I might add. Have a good day and if I'm truly first in the album I'll be shocked. After WS' major overhaul I expected this place would be 'jumping'. Take care, Judy

  • said ladybug591

  • 2006.01.19 at 03:32:14 PST

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  • Hi Ken and Carolynn. What a fun festival this looks like. The Black and White dancers are interesting some of the makeup No. 7 and 8. looks like the members of the rock band Kiss. LOL. It's great how these traditions last on and the story behind them doesn't die out. Love and Hugs or hogs? Chris and Jay

  • said chrismary18

  • 2006.01.19 at 01:49:08 PST

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