Fremont 2007

FREMONT SUMMER SOLSTICE FESTIVAL 2007

We walked down to Fremont for the Solstice festival again this year (2007). We watched the naked bicyclists and part of the parade. Leslie noted that the parade is great in concept but not so much in execution. No advertising is allowed. No letters or numbers are allowed in the parade. It's a free-form anything-goes celebration of, well, really whatever you want. Political statements tend to be made and clearly lean to the left. Conservatives generally do not attend. Ergo my friend Brian hates it.

I bought a violin at one of the festival booths.

I love the nude bicyclists and dream of being a nudist, but I just can't make the necessary leap away from inhibitions yet. I would have to begin at a colony rather than preceeding a parade in front of the general public.

This isn't a form of exhibitionism for me, just freedom. Freedom from rules as much as anything.

We didn't take very many pictures, but there are a few.

Naked man on bike This woman got off her bike, then accidentally dropped it. I don't know why she was dismounting in the first place, but she started dancing to save face, then she got back on and rode away smiling. She got off and started dancing. I think she knew someone at this spot which was right by where we were. I walked over and took a few pictures. I think she knows this person in white. There was a guy sitting down taking pictures. She took his camera from him and handed it to the girl in white who then took pictures of the two of them dancing.

Here are the woman and the picture taking guy dancing. The parade proper arrives. I find it interesting that parade participants chat with each other during the parade. I think of the parade as performances. The chatting adds to the informality and free-flowing nature of the event, but distracts from the pure performance itself. This attraction in the parade had something to do with water conservation, or monsters that charge for water, or something like that.

Those were the best photos, or at least the ones I chose to put up. I know they are mostly of females, and mostly just one female. Assume the worst if you desire, whatever that might be for you.

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Naked man on bike	This woman got off her bike, then accidentally dropped it. I don't know why she was dismounting in the first place, but she started dancing to save face, then she got back on and rode away smiling.	She got off and started dancing. I think she knew someone at this spot which was right by where we were. I walked over and took a few pictures.	I think she knows this person in white. There was a guy sitting down taking pictures. She took his camera from him and handed it to the girl in white who then took pictures of the two of them dancing.


Here are the woman and the picture taking guy dancing.	The parade proper arrives. I find it interesting that parade participants chat with each other during the parade. I think of the parade as performances. The chatting adds to the informality and free-flowing nature of the event, but distracts from the pure performance itself.	This attraction in the parade had something to do with water conservation, or monsters that charge for water, or something like that.