I'm putting up Friday's PaD early because I hope to be on the road by 5 a.m. tomorrow morning.

This will be my 13th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, but I'm doing it differently this time. Instead of camping for a week with anywhere from 3-10,000 women on 650 acres of "women's land" in western Michigan, I am only going for the weekend (Friday through Sunday) and will be spending the nights in a motel ten miles away. I'm interested in seeing how this will work out. At the very least I won't have karaoke blasting in my ears until 2 a.m.!

To get some idea of what this grandmother of all women's music festivals is like, you can check out one of my Festival photojournals on my windchimewalker.com web site. Believe me, there's nothing quite it on the planet!

I'll be returning home Monday afternoon with a memory card full of photos. Then we'll see how my "new eyes" have seen thousands of women, forest and meadow stages with live music 12 hours a day, and unimaginable levels of energy that can set your head a'spinning! See you in a few days...