13 for Halloween.

13

to get you

in the mood

for Halloween.

Last little bit of summer.

It is starting to cool down a bit here at Kat's Corner.

The temp got down to 55 F last night (about 13 C) and a few of our leaves are starting to change.

I have been looking forward to this for a while, but before I settle down and enjoy it, I wanted to post one last tribute to Glorious Summer.

Yet another post about our trip to Boston. Sure seems like a crowd is starting to form, I wonder where they are all headed on a Summer's eve? Check out the pretty sky.

There is a lot of excitement in the air. If feels like a festival.

Everyone is in a great mood.

 Fenway park! When the Red Socks started to outgrow their lovely old stadium, they got creative. They rearranged under utilized areas for more seating and found a way to preserve their home.
From what I understand, they did not ask for any tax payer money to do it either.
I took this photo but you can bet I am smiling just as much as my Sweet Hubby here.

I can't believe he managed to get us tickets!

I am most certainly not a big sports fan, but Baseball, I can enjoy.

Especially a live game. I can remember playing the game when with Pete, Paula, Tammy and Terry when we were kids (when we could talk Pete into playing). Did you know you can play baseball with only four players? You can if you are kids and you are determined.

 See I told you I was smiling. Excitement before the game started. These seats did not stay empty.  At one point in the game, they put the number of fans present in the stadium as over 37,000. That is a lot of peanuts and beer. 

 Isn't this a pretty picture? Love my camera!

We had great seats. The Boston Red Socks played the Tampa Bay Rays.

We rooted for the Socks of course.

 Peanuts! Popcorn! Cotton Candy!

This guy was loving his job.

David Ortiz just got through hitting a good one here. The game started out badly and the Rays quickly pulled ahead. Mr. Ortiz here is one of the reasons the Rays did not get to stay ahead. He is good.
I told you I used to play, I wasn't any good. Quite seriously, I am not coordinated enough. We broke one window at Tammy and Terry's house and one at my house playing ball. I did have a lot of fun.
Never tried out for any teams, but of course I played in gym class growing up.

Scott Atchinson is the pitcher in this shot. Can you feel the excitement?

I got to watch a lot of live games while I was in the Air Force. My favorite was the Annual

"Chief's vs Eagles" game at Charleston Air Force Base.

The Chiefs (Highest enlisted rank) played the Colonels (their rank insignia is an eagle).

Some of those old guys could really play.

I always rooted for the Chiefs of course.

This is Fenway's "Green Monster". Fenway Park will celebrate it's 100th birthday in 2012. They still post the score by hand on this board. Their is a big screen up high and to the side that shows player's stats and other things during the game, but the score is right here.

The Red Socks won of course, 11 - 5.

I was a kid again that night. I yelled and screamed so much my throat hurt.

We even sang "Take me out to the ball game" and participated in the wave.

I would strongly recommend that kind of medicine.

I am smiling again just thinking about it.

We don't have a major league team locally, but we went to one Charleston "River Dog" game a few years back. Augusta does have the "Green Jackets" I wonder when their next game is? 

Cheers,

Kat

p.s. Go Socks!

Bicentenial, Freedom trail and my 200th post.

This is Kat's Corner's 200th post.

When I think about the number 200, I think about the year long celebrations that occurred here in the states to celebrate our nation's birthday. I remember how everyone was patriotic that summer. Red, white and blue bell bottoms were the highest fashion. Bell bottoms? Yes, Bell bottoms, our nation was born in 1776, so the bicentennial celebrations took place in 1976.... I guess, I am showing my age a little here.

Oh well, I still think this post will be appropriate. Boston is a historical city. Many of the events leading up to the revolutionary war happened there. My Sweet Husband and I visited several of them, and I took pictures (your not surprised at that are you).  

This brick building is Faneuil Hall. It was an easy walk from our hotel and a good starting place for the Freedom Trail. Yes, there is a blue mime standing in the bottom right corner, he was busking for tips.

The Freedom Trail is a red line that links several Revolutionary War sites in downtown Boston. In some places it is painted red as a temporary measure while road work is done but most of it is a double row of brick. Great way to keep from getting lost. It is a good days outing if you stop to see everything along the way. This medallion marks one of the points on the Freedom Trail.

Copp's Hill Burying ground is along the freedom trail. It feels quite serene in spite of the tourists.

It is Boston's second oldest grave yard.

Paul Revere's House. Photography is not allowed inside so if you want to see the interior you will have to visit in person (or go here Paul Revere house ). That handsome man sitting on the wall is my Sweet Husband. He makes a great tour guide.

To market, to market. The freedom trail goes right through this farmer's market. Biggify the picture then look closely at the two corner pictures that look like garbage and a smashed crate on the pavement.
They are actually embedded bronze sculptures! Very cool.

Long ago, Robert Newman, (no not the actor) was the sexton in this lovely little church. He is reported to be one of the men who hung the lanterns in the steeple for Mr. Revere.

Steps to that steeple.

One if by land, two if by river?
Longfellow's famous poem says one if by land, two if by sea, but citizens of Boston are fond of correcting him. The sea in question was the Charles River. Either way, this is the famous steeple.
To read the entire poem, look here Longfellows poem .

Mr. Revere.

Me on the deck of "The Constitution" another stop along the trail.

More soon, I have to get to work.

Have a great day.

Kat

Try Again Thursday

This was supposed to be for Wordless Wednesday, it would not load.

I guess when you live in a lovely old antebellum house like this one, you can't expect all the modern conveniences all of the time. 

This, as you may have guessed is from our Boston vacation. Sorry about the tilt. You can take a three to four hour trip from Boston Harbour to see the whales (most of the time is spent getting to and from the feeding ground, but we did get to spend time on site). These things are amazing, and of course, they seem to know just where I have the camera aimed, so they can pop up somewhere else. I got to see way more than I was able to photo.

I guess it is a good thing I could not post this for wordless Wednesday after all, I am getting quite wordy.

Since you are here, would you like to go whale watching with us?

Oops, no we did not get to ride on this one. It is the USS Constitution, aka "Old Iron sides". I'll share that one in another post. Isn't it lovely?

This was our ride, she is Voyager III, a catamaran. Our adventure left from the Boston Harbour. There are several different cruises, ours was sponsored by the aquarium we boarded right next to the Aquarium.

This is us, smiling on the dock while we waited to board. We talked to an interesting family that lives in the local area while we waited. I know, this sounds funny for a big city, but Boston is full of friendly people. Seriously, I think it may be the friendliest city I have ever visited (still a city though, would not trade it for my old antebellum in the woods).

I am not sure what the name of this one is, we saw it on the way out to the feeding grounds. We were no where near this close, my camera has a great zoom. At this point the seas were calm enough to get away with using it. Once we got out farther, it got a lot rougher and I could not stabilize the camera enough for the digital zoom. Still, I am amazed at what a great job my little camera does.

(The current model is a Fuji Fine Pix Z70, in pink of course).

"Thar she blows!" Oops, that wasn't a blow it was a splash, that is even better, see the tail? We only got a few good still pictures and I have one video that shows nothing but blue sky while you can hear the people saying things like "Wow, there it is" and "Did you see that?".....What can I say, I was having a great time.

Whalewatch is the aquarium's blog with lots of photos from other trips.

This is a close up cropped and enlarged from the previous photo. I have to give proper credit here, My Sweet Husband, got this great shot. Look at the color of the water! It was a wonderful memorable trip.

What else did we see while we were in Boston?

Stay tuned.....

Kat

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