Well Day three started the way day two ended, with the 30 minute walk from my hotel to Fenway Park. It was another great day for baseball, and another great game by the Jays. The Jays’ bats came alive early and often….they scored 6 runs in the first inning on the way to a 15 to 4 victory.
The line score really says it all.
I can’t lie, it almost got boring…. every time you thought the Red Sox were going to make a game of it, the Jays came back up to bat and scored a couple more runs. It actually started a good week ball for the Jays which included a 14 to 3 win over the Yankees and 11 – 0 win over the Red Sox.
My perfect un-obstructed view.
Yes that is a red sock. Very clever I know. There were actually 2 of them and they were not around last year when I was there.
Anyway, I will never complain when the Jays beat the Red Sox and especially when they win big. It was another beautiful day at the ball park and a great game. Since it was an afternoon start I had a chance to wander around a little bit and grab some food before heading back to the hotel (to watch more Olympic coverage). I found the community garden plots. Not sure how they are handed out but people obviously get their plot and then can do what they want with them. Most of them were fenced in with locked gates, some had vegetables, some flowers, some had benches and fountains and some were badly in need of weeding. It was quiet and relaxing and I am sure some people have spent some very relaxing afternoons there.
Former Blue Jay Mike Timlin
Shaun Marcum
I was not in a huge rush to get back to DC so I headed to the Museum of Fine Arts on Monday. I still find it a shock to the system when I am reminded how much it actually costs to visit museums. For reference, most people in DC have no idea that there actually are entrance fees for museums. Anyway, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is great although it is in the process of a huge renovation so it is a little hard to get around right now but once you figure it out it is ok. It is actually home to the largest collection of Egyptian art outside of Cairo (I will be the judge of that though in a few weeks.) Lots of Asian and late century art as well and some modern art too. It was a very nice combination of things and will be even better once all the renovations are complete and they have more space.
This is a throne leg from Eastern India. It is dated around the 16th century.
This is part of a wall sized painting by American artist Kara Walker called The Soil Down There. It contains caricatured and stylized figures that envoke racial stereotypes in acts that are perplexing, violent and suggestive. Walker used this silhouette to "try and uncover the often subtle and uncomfortable ways racism, and racist and sexual stereotypes, influence and script our everyday lives". At first glance you can see how the black figures seem to be smothered by either a white figure or white substance but a closer looks reveals some of the other things the artist is trying to bring to light.
Walking up the stairs towards the Upper Rotunda.
One of the egyptian columns in the museum. This column looks small in this picture but it is well over 10 feet tall.
This is Ravine by Vincent Van Gogh. Beneath this painting, another painting was recently found. Van Gogh painted this while in an asylum in France. The orginal painting is of a flowering hillside. When Van Gogh found himself without fresh canvas on which to paint, he sacrificed the flowering hillside to paint his interpretation of the ravine near the asylum. Van Gogh also sent a pen-and-ink copy of the original painting to his brother.
This can be found in the American Art section of the museum. I just found it funny considering the other things you will find in the museum.
From there I headed back to DC. I made a short stop in New Haven to see Mark (it allowed traffic to die down a bit before I joined them). All in all it was a great trip and a great way to almost end my summer… I say almost because there was a bit more after that.
A couple of the fountains around Boston. Lots of kids out taking a break in the New England heat. The fountain in the top picture was lots of fun because the water levels changed and there was lots of excitement and screaming and that kind of thing.
Julie
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