To eat or not to eat, that is consumption

On Saturday night we attended the Empty Bowls dinner, benefiting the Brattleboro Area Drop-In Center. There were many hundreds of people… wow! Everybody who attends gets a hand-thrown ceramic bowl… very cool.

On Sunday, we went to the Dummerston Apple Pie Festival, where no bowls were empty. We bought a pie, looked at a bunch of “crafts,” and mused at the friendly juxtaposition of two groups who stood out from the flannel shirt and boots crowd: many many Harley types and a couple dozen guys who were dressed in a weird mix of medieval-jester-meets-drag-queen. We never did figure out who or why… it didn’t really rise above the background level of quirkiness.