deja vu

have you ever seen an elephant walking by st. james's palace? well i have! and i saw it sleeping in trafalgar square. twice lucky. this street theatre left me speechless. i was enchanted yesterday just by the elephant's siesta.






but today...there was walking and tail wagging and roaring (what do you call the sound the elephant makes?). there were dancing girls, the sultan, his entourage, live music following behind. it was fantastic! the sun even made a brief appearance.

the elephant would stop periodically to be fed hay by his handlers and he would pick up the bails of hay and throw them at the crowd. he also enjoyed drenching the crowd with water from his trunk (which you can just make out against the cloudy sky in this picutre). i managed to stay clears of the streams for quite a while. but then i got distracted by my camera and got completely soaked. i hope nikon cameras like elephant spit.