What A Day!

   My sweetcake and I spent the day down at Harbourfront, at the ninth annual Barbados on the Water festival. The sky was overcast all day, but there was no shortage of bright, cheery atmosphere, nonetheless.
   We got there as Andy Earle and his group were finishing the last few numbers of their show. Those artists were playing some raunchy-mother sounds, and there was just no way to stand still! My honeybun and I did some slow, sweet moving to the music.
   A few more hours passed by happily, while we took a multitude of photos along the harbourfront and in the Toronto Music Garden, a delight designed by cellist Yo Yo Ma and landscape designer Julie Moir Messervy. I'll share some of those shots with you soon.
   Instead of the ice cream we had originally thought of, we snacked on some delicious offerings served up by the Afghan Women's Catering Group. The food was such a tastebud-tickle, in fact, we went back there later for our dinner.
   By 5:30 we had made our way back to the CIBC Stage to watch an admission-free performance given by the Israel Lovell Foundation's 25 member Dance Company. What an incredible experience! The only problem I had with the show was the first two numbers being performed to music composed by classical performers. It seemed totally out of sync with the whole thing. Once they ditched the dirges written by some old dead white guys, and brought out the drummers of the ILF, the show took off. The evening air was filled with a joyful pulsating of percussion that swept your soul right along with it. The dancers grabbed the music out of the air and laid it down on the stage with the flux and flow of their movements.
    I was sorry to see the day end.