Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Dork Pixie and Scott's Canoe Experiment

I couldn’t help but notice the large aluminum canoe on top of my lighting designer’s truck after rehearsals this summer. I asked him about it. It turns out he’s an avid canoer, and he’s got a goal to canoe in every lake in Colorado. That probably won’t take long, I quip, and he lets me know there’s lots of lakes in Colorado. Huh. I tell him I’ve never really canoed, but I love being on the water, in any capacity, so we make plans to explore 11 Mile Reservoir by canoe after the show ends.




The weather was great, for September, and it’s calm waters and blue skies as we paddle about, inventing names for the land masses we pass. There was Forbidden Island (complete with signs discouraging would-be explorers), Black Bird Cove (we’re not entirely sure what a cove is, but it probably has something to do with rocks and water), and Chipmunk Isle, which we barely escaped with our sunflower seeds in tact...