These are Suzanne Montano and Pat Landreth with the newest addition to our little menagerie of creatures created by these two wonderful artists. Suzanne and Pat are Bungled Jungle, based in Salida, Colorado, and for the past ten years, Caroline and I have been customers of theirs as we periodically adopt one of these handsome er, um….things? You can check them out from now through the first weekend of April at the Arizona Renaissance Festival. The smile on this guy and having the perfect spot in the kitchen helped us in our decision-making.

Update: as I’ve been stating in various other posts, I’m updating some of my old blog entries here in 2023 to round them out with the photos I couldn’t include back in the early days of posting due to bandwidth limitations. And so it is here at the Arizona Renaissance Festival. The original post still lives at the top of the entry but starting with the ladies from Hey Nunnie Nunnie! I’m adding these images for Caroline and my memories.

It was still early in the morning with all the personalities of the festival at the entry gate welcoming those of us who show up when the event get’s underway.

A lot of the performers here we’ve seen for years.

The Wyld Men about to get dirty with a crazy performance in the mud.

A man of great talent we always try to catch is slack wire walker, fire juggler, and all-around masochist Dextre Tripp at the Renaissance Festival in Arizona.

As I look back at our photos I can’t help but have nostalgic feelings about those days, except back then there were lots of plain old wholesome families that would visit, our last trip to the far east valley saw a festival as a place for exhibitionists and bikers to strut around showing cleavage, tattoos, and black leather.