Here is the front and back of the Edward Scissorhands Castle Cake I made for David's birthday. When the frosting started ripping up the layers of cake I had cut, I had to reinforce with icecream cone parts. It wasn't pretty, but it should look pretty good when the candles are lit.

The dragon head is said to be made of hospital trays, cut and hammered of course. Jim Bishop, Castle Builder, comes from a family of ornamental ironworkers (I think that is the proper title), and it really gives the castle an extra dimension. The castle reminds me of some of Gaudi's work, unbridled creativity, industry and attention to detail.

Ana climbed all the way to the domed top, she called it the Epcot dome, it reminds me of those things that motorcycles circumnambulate inside at top speeds. One of the tibits of information I found on the internet said something about being able to run in it to make it spin, I'll have to ask Ana how stablized it was.

Ana said the young couple that were up there when she was were using some bad words, like the girl was saying "I'm going to piss my pants!!!!"

Emma hit the ground while on one stairway when she looked down and saw all the winding steps. She just shorted out and fell to her knees and hands. Climbing around the castle isn't something for the faint-hearted, as far as heights go. The bridge between the two towers looked totally scary to me, even with its hand rail. It probably didn't help that there was a strong, cold wind blowing at us as we climbed.

BISHOP CASTLE

During spring break we visited Bishop Castle in the San Isabel National Forest. It's been built entirely by one man, about my age, who bought 2 1/2 acres when he was 15, started making a home from stone, and after being told it looked like a castle continued on and on and on. It's an amazing feat of building and was really interesting to climb through. It's open to the public with no charge. There is a highly volatile interview with Jim Bishop on You Tube which kind of made me glad he wasn't there working while we visited, but hey all artists are a bit mad, it seems that madness spurs them to create be it by writing, painting, composing or building.