Creche Festival

Each holiday season, Mepkin Abbey in Monk's Corner hosts a Creche Festival (in case you didn't know, and I didn't, creche is synonymous with crib, and is another term used for nativity scene). Landon, Cora, Dad, Mom, and I headed out to Monk's Corner for this year's festival. The event boasts nearly 100 different depictions of the nativity from around the world. Afterwards, we joined Sandy and her daughter Caroline for a picnic by the river.

Sandy & her daughter, Caroline.

These trees fell during Hurricane Hugo. The monks took the fallen debris and made it into something amazing.

Landon's favorite creche: a turqoise blue creche, with all of the figures depicted as ghost-like. Our interpretation is that the large ghost-like figure overshadowing the entire scene is what other scenes depict as the baby Jesus.


Dad's favorite: a large scene made of hammered copper.

Mom's favorite: a scene carved into a wooden wall hanging of a shooting star. I think that her favorite part of this particular one was the depiction of the sheppard. He kind of looked like a coal miner, and he had a beard.

My favorite: a small wooden carved nativity, non-descript in every way except that the baby Jesus was being nursed by Mary rather than laying in the manger. I loved it.

Beautiful weather, perfect day. Cora was snoozing before we even made it to the main road.