Hopi Sunflowers

**Riverkilt** · 14th September 08, 07:52 PM

So I'm down on the Hopi reservation this weekend for the Hopi AA Freedom in Sobriety Campout at Five Houses, AZ. Always a good time. There was this huge field of sunflowers next to the campground and someone had just bladed a "road" through it to the sweatlodge area near the windmill in the distance.

Wore my saffron leather RKilt most of the weekend. That puppy is bulletproof. Wore it all day Friday at work, then for the three hour drive over Black Mesa through the Navajo reservation to Hopi (dirt roads -lots of bouncing) then wore in Friday evening at the AA meetings and again all day Saturday at the meetings. The pleats got a bit rumpled as would be expected but not "that" bad. Check it out.

And, yes, that's a waterbottle in the cargo pocket in the top pic.

Its a long drive each way but it is sooooo serene on the Hopi and up on Black Mesa.

Ron

**george7** · 14th September 08, 08:35 PM

Who is your photographer?

**Riverkilt** · 14th September 08, 09:06 PM

Tripod and timer...

**Mael Coluim** · 15th September 08, 05:53 PM

Looking good, Ron. Great kilt, I mean super nice kilt.

**Highlander31** · 16th September 08, 04:26 AM

That's a nice looking kilt. You're not kidding bullet proof,...those pleats look great.

**JRB** · 16th September 08, 06:50 AM

Cool Ron. I once drove through a sunflower farm in Kansas (on I-70 I believe). It seemed to go on forever as far as the eye could see. It was one of the most amazing landscapes I've ever seen.

Now, as far as the leather kilt...how do you deal with wrinkles/rumples in the pleats? Do you press them out somehow or do they just naturally go away?

**Canuck** · 16th September 08, 07:43 AM

If one wished to iron the pleats you can. Hot iron with a towel between the iron and the leather. In most cases the wrinkles just go away. The pleats are top stitched as well on the leather kilts I make