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I played at the Pagan Pride Harvest Festival at Stramler Park a couplr/three weeks ago, and I finally got around to posting a video from it on the toob....

It was a super cool and super mellow event with very nice people and a lot of interesting things going on. Kinda like a rennaissance fair without the drama. I really had a great time playing there. The sound was done by one of the other artists on the bill, Hauk, and I think he did an excellent job.

This song comes from a day when I was hiking around the desert, and I stumbled upon an outcrop of geodes. I have some land out there in the middle of nowhere, between a wilderness area and a bombing range... I used to go camping out there a lot with my kid and howl at the coyotes and listen to Art Bell on the radio. Chinese Lanterns are a beautiful pink wildflower, also known as Desert  5 Spot, and Painted Ladies are little orange butterflies.

Chinese Lanterns

Lost Hills

There's a halo around the moon

Riding high upon the desert wind tonight..

Clouds are rolling in from the West,

So high above the fire light.

I found a crystal, shining in the sand,

Wile walking through the hills of mystery.

Chinese Lanterns, glowing in the sun,

Light my way.....

In a circle of stones, a fire glows.

Incense rises to the sky.

For many long years

We have watched those flames

Dancing through the night..

I found a crystal....

I met a painted lady

In a cloak of many colors upon the trail.

She could not stop to talk

And upon that Western wind she set her sail.

I saw an Eagle, floating on the wind,

While walking through the hills of mystery.

He sees everything, underneath the sun,

But he won't tell....

~

Somewhere in the night, my old friends

Sail their ship across the sky.

I hope they don't get lost.

I'll set my crystal out to guide their way...

I found a crystal, shinining in the sand,

While walking through the hills of mystery.

Chinese Lanterns, glowing in the sun,

Light my way.....

~

"Thanks for listening....."