Rainy day casts a shadow on Ettrick Celtic Festival
What should have been a fun day of kilts, shamrocks and bagpipe music was much more subdued when the Ettrick Celtic Festival was effectively rained out earlier this month. Clockwise from top: Re-enactors take shelter from the weather while waiting for their stew to cook; kilt-wearing Douglas Duncan of Matoaca chats with Dora Pritchett in the parking lot; Eastern long hunter Robert Pettit waits out the rain with John May, a Union re-enactor from the county; men in kilts test their strength by pushing a van that became stuck; the steady rain lulls Cody Bryant, a St. Andrews Legion Pipes and Drums member from Fluvanna, to sleep. (All photos by Lisa Billings)