THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH.....

Ya know...I never knew just how much I DO love PINK until BEVERLY came into our lives...
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Be sure to go over to see BEVERLY at HOW SWEET THE SOUND and thank her for giving us another beautiful PINK SAURDAY

and there's many more ladies out there to offer their PINKS for you to drool over...

The CIRCUS is one of my fondest childhood memories...

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and may I mention, right from the start, that, altho I wanted to

go to the circus SOOO badly today, not all the animals and circus

stars wanted to wear the magical color of PINK....

sooooo, being the TRUE PINK that I am, I just gave them

all a little PINK frame if they weren't wearing the magical color....!!

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and THIS movie has always been one of my very favorites....

all about the 'workings' of a circus, the entainers, plus...

A SUPER LOVESTORY !!!

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PINK COTTON CANDY...pure heaven on a stick ..

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PEANUTS and POPCORN were always the fare at the CIRCUS...

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CLOWNS...oh, how they made us kids laugh...so hard we would nearly wet our pants.

I'm not sure I have ever laughed THAT hard since..the kind of laugh that you can't catch your

breath nor uncross your legs and you just fall down on the ground, laughing and rolling.....

as only a HAPPY KID can do....

hahaaaa...
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the minute the RINGMASTER entered the tent,

THE FUN BEGAN....
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ALL the costumes were sooo pretty...well, at least to a child's eyes..

I do wonder now, how they kept them all clean and fresh looking...

not many travel trailers nor RV's when I was little...

the circus moved mostly with trucks and by train.

The costumes may have not been as clean nor as glamorous as

they seemed to my child eyes but in my mind,

they were BEAUTIFUL....

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The FLYING TRAPAZE ARTISTS just held me spellbound ....

these must be practicing for a show that night...
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the lions and tigers just scared the very living water right out of me and

I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT....
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It is so amazing how they can train these big cats to do all the tricks they do...

so scary and fun ..

I can remember the sound of the cracking whip and my hair would almost

stand on end....the excitement just washed over us like water....
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I still find in so amazing that these dangerous, wild beast

can be trained to do so many magnificent tricks...

I know that trainers have to be VERY careful and

knowledgeable in their art .....

but, oh, at the time I was 10, sitting inside that big tent...

I just knew that, AT ANY MOMENT, the tigers would

turn on their trainer and eat him alive...every part of him....

OH, BOY...did that thought make me tremble with excitement !!
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MY VERY FAVORITE....

THE ELEPHANTS
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(i know there's not a speck of pink or red in this

photo but.......such a COOL picture !! )
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I always loved how, when following each other, the elephants

wrapped their trunks around the tail of the one in front of them....

Pretty cool...
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SO big and so entertaining...

I can remember just setting on the edge of my seat the entire time of the whole circus...

especially when the elephants were doing their thing...

I will remember forever the sights, the smells, the sounds and

THE JUST PLAIN F.U.N.

of the circus !
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and...how in the HECK, do you think, this HUGH beauty was ever trained to do THIS ?

Isn't it the most awesome thing....
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AND THE PINK SATURDAY HUNK.....

MR. EMMET KELLY...

THE GREATEST CLOWN OF ALL TIME .

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I hope you had a great time at the circus...I know I sure did..

When I was little, the circus was held in a hugh, canvas tent, held up with wooden poles.

It was decided to be unsafe and tents are no longer used, to my knowledge.

I have taken our kids and grand kids to see the circus...usually held in a large coliseum.

It just doesn't seem the same without the big, ole tent but when I watch

the joy, wonder and smiles in their eyes, I know THEY enjoy THEIR

type circus just as much as I enjoyed MINE....

XO bj

OUR PINK PRAYER BALLOONS...

PRAYERS FOR ALL ....

SO many here in Blogland need our prayers as well as those

in your personal life...

PRAYERS HAVE BEEN PROVEN TO BE THE SINGLE MOST POWERFUL

THING ON THIS EARTH......

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