It's a beautiful day.....

for a ball game!  While in Boston we toured historic Fenway Park.  It was built in 1912.  It has been remodeled and added to in those 103 years, but it mostly retains the flavor and feel of an old ball park.  My mom is a HUGE baseball fan so this was high on our list of things to do in Boston!  Interestingly, the Sox were playing in Seattle when we were there!

Roni Jo and Alicia in the gift shop across from the stadium.

Waiting for the tour to begin.

Grandma Jo and Grandpa Jim sitting in the original ball park seats.

Grandma, grandpa, Roni Jo,  David and Alicia in the historic seats.

I think these are so cool!  Notice, there aren't any cup holders!  

Roof top garden at Fenway Park.  These greens are used in the kitchen to serve patrons in the sky box seats!  

Grandpa, Roni Jo, David and grandma sitting in seats in the "Green Monster".

Looking out over the field at Fenway.  Would love to mow this lawn, but would need satellite guidance to drive this straight!

Grandma and grandpa posing by Red Sox greats!

And, the rest of the tour group by the same statue.

We walked from the Gardner to Fenway, through the Fens.  We passed an amazing city block of community gardens on our way.  It was interesting.  Some of the plots were vegetable gardens, some were delightful green sanctuaries, some full of weeds, which made me very tense!  We didn't tour the whole block, which I would have loved doing, but enough to get a feel for the diversity of plantings and designs.

A mid city garden sanctuary.

The same plot, different view.

This hardscape ornament made the farm folks smile!  It's a rotary hoe blade.  A piece of equipment that we used to use in our farming practice.  We hauled hundreds of these off to the scrap metal recycle depot last year!

After graduation on Sunday, we attended the last concert at the Gardner museum in the regular season.  It was a string quartet, plus guitar, associated with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  Wow!  What a treat to hear these talented and accomplished musicians perform.

Reynald snapped a few photos of Alicia doing her job!  They are blurry for a reason!  She moves fast, fast, fast to make these events a pleasurable even for both the audience and the musicians!

Alicia doing her job at the Gardner!

Moving the staging for various instrumental configurations.

Reynald got her to stop for just a second for an almost clear photo!