Saturday, June 02, 2007
Scenes from the Relay
The all-night annual Lakewood Relay for Life raises funds for cancer research. Teams field enough people so that at least one member of the team is walking the track at Clover Park High School throughout the night.
Whenever someone asks me to walk as part of their team, I have to tell them the truth. I only live a couple houses down from Clover Park High. So all I really have to do to get there is wake up, stumble out of the house and point myself down School Street. It thus makes sense to give me a very early shift. That's how I drew the 4 a.m. shift. I wish you could haved been there too! As I turned the corner of CP High's auditorium, and began to see the stadium lit by candles, I simply stopped and stood a moment. It was breathtaking.
Here are some very, very dark images from a still camera that can take video in a pinch. I apologize for the quality. The bright thing above the stadium is the moon. The candles in the grandstand spell 'Hope' (on the other side of the stadium, they spelled 'Cure'). The bags on the ground are decorated with names of people that walkers were thinking of as they paced the track. (Are the bags called 'luminarias?' Or something like that? Walter needs to get back to sleep)
And the final segment is of a couple of girls from the Lochburn Leos club. They were determined, for fun, to crawl backwards once around the track, and by, golly, they did!
(Just to warn you, I put the video on the YouTube Web site to make it easier to view. Many of the videos on YouTube are pretty tasteless, so feel free not to click on their links)
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Whenever someone asks me to walk as part of their team, I have to tell them the truth. I only live a couple houses down from Clover Park High. So all I really have to do to get there is wake up, stumble out of the house and point myself down School Street. It thus makes sense to give me a very early shift. That's how I drew the 4 a.m. shift. I wish you could haved been there too! As I turned the corner of CP High's auditorium, and began to see the stadium lit by candles, I simply stopped and stood a moment. It was breathtaking.
Here are some very, very dark images from a still camera that can take video in a pinch. I apologize for the quality. The bright thing above the stadium is the moon. The candles in the grandstand spell 'Hope' (on the other side of the stadium, they spelled 'Cure'). The bags on the ground are decorated with names of people that walkers were thinking of as they paced the track. (Are the bags called 'luminarias?' Or something like that? Walter needs to get back to sleep)
And the final segment is of a couple of girls from the Lochburn Leos club. They were determined, for fun, to crawl backwards once around the track, and by, golly, they did!
(Just to warn you, I put the video on the YouTube Web site to make it easier to view. Many of the videos on YouTube are pretty tasteless, so feel free not to click on their links)
