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Florida "Regional" 2000-2001
and "seed camps"
Ocala Nat'l Forest
RAINBOW                 Page 4
By Tampa DAve
AKA Rainbow Rev. Dave
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In February of each year, individuals from all over camp in Ocala National Forest.  The forest is beautiful, as the pic to the left reminds us.  I got a little artistic with the pic and created the surreal coloring of the one on the right.
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Many people camp at Half Moon Lake prior to the Regional in Florida.  It tends to be more centered around alcohol consumption than the camp at Buck Lake, and the atmosphere is more exciting, less peaceful.  Here Brody and Amber stand outside a circle of campers celebrating Veterans Day, 2000, with Vietnam-era music.  We see "Poppa Daddy" with his guitar.
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"Seed camps" spring up near the area, before the actual gathering.  Temporary kitchens, often complex in structure, are built to feed the people who come before the gathering starts.  In these three pictures, we see the Oz kitchen at Buck Lake in December, 2000, almost two months prior to the gathering.  Cookie mostly built this kitchen and ran it almost single-handedly for the first few weeks.  We see Cookie in the kitchen in the photo above.  Bickell cooks in the photo at right.
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Amber wanted a picture of her friend "Sweetness" while she was dressed up nice.  Even though it was dark, I thought this would come out okay with a flash (maybe the iris closed because of the white dress?).  We see Faerie and Sweetness pretty well in the larger version, anyway.
Here I caught Faerie and Sweetness during daylight
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Having fun with the photo shop program, I cloned Sweetness to create these two "artistic" pics.  Don't know exactly how to tie this in with Rainbow Gatherings except to say that when it comes to children at gatherings, "the more the merrier."
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Jug2.jpg A sister juggles for fun at Oz kitchen... and I couldn't resist getting artistic again
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The same lady got snapped drawing in Oz kitchen.  The photo didn't come out too well, so I got a bit surreal with the colors...
Cookie moved away from Oz kitchen in December and set up camp near Dragon and Faerie's tent. 
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These two shots show the view west from Cookie's tent. In the first one, Cookie walks on the path to the lake.  In the second, Amber runs to give Cookie a hug.  My attempt to make this pic clearer resulted in some nice effects in the colors.
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Gathering in the woods requires a lot of hard work.  In this series, we see "Tree" splitting wood for the camps and kitchens.
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