Real Catches, These Two

Real Catches, These Two, originally uploaded by Stephanie A. Richer.

Orange International Street Fair in Orange, California. September 2009. This is a yearly food-drink-music fest over the Labor Day weekend.

The title comes from an expression I would imagine my late father making about these fellows.

Every year at the fair, I sell margaritas at my church's booth, which I enjoy immensely, since it allows me to be at the fair but not out in the crowd. It gets very crowded, as the OISF hasbecome Orange County's answer to Mardi Gras.

Why horns? Over on Denmark Street, certain Scandanavian groups sell these souvenir Viking horns, which over the years have become THE thing to wear while at the fair. People save their horns from year to year, and consider it a special thing each year when they don their horns and head out to drink at the fair.