the boston symphony orchestra just happened to decide to perform beethovan’s 9th symphony at tanglewood on katy’s birthday last week. so, of course, we all packed a picnic and made a day of it.
the weather was amazing. it was possibly the most perfect day of the summer.
(l to r: tom, me, gl, andre, eleanor)
get us all together and you are likely to find: pimm’s cups
(the birthday girl enjoying the tasty beverage)
lots of food
(clockwise beginning upper left: tom, me, gl, eleanor, chris, molly, josh, pete)
i just opened iphoto and realized that there is a bunch of stuff i never got around to posting. here is some of it:
jon and laurie came to visit. among other things, we threw a picnic (sadly, no pics), picked strawberries:
(i have a picture of laurie from many, many years ago picking strawberries, that i seem to remember looks just like this one. i should dig it out.)
a week or so later, we took a co-worker’s extra tickets to see james taylor off her hands. or, at least, we think we saw james taylor…from our seats it could very well have just been a big-screen broadcast of a recorded james taylor concert:
either way, we found out just how awesome it is to hang out at tanglewood.
***we will now take a moment for a doggie intermission***
***feel free to get some snacks before the next portion of the catching-up begins***
ok, what else does iphoto say we have done?
we visited with good friends, and their amazing twin girls, who were staying in a nearby town. (again, sadly, no pics.)
tom’s parents came for a visit. among other things, we took a boat ride on the Connecticut river:
and went to a bunch of flea markets. we came home with many goodies including, a salt grinder that looks like a bunny, though i don’t think that’s intentional:
and two display heads:
don’t the heads look like they would fit perfectly into a dr. who episode?
finally, these amazing flowers are growing in our garden:
we rescued these from the community garden compost pile at the end of last season. at the time, they were only a root and stem and we weren’t sure if they were even going to grow, let alone what they would look like. they seem to be pretty happy to be in our plot now.
phew! that was a lot of stuff. thanks for hanging in there. now i think i am back up to date!
we had a luke-warm reaction to some of their new songs, but kim and kelley’s voices are still really amazing and hearing them do old songs was great. i think the crowd was having a mixed reaction to them also, at first. that is, until this happened *
it made the crowd finally both sing and bounce.
overall a good show, but it made me feel pretty old - all of this music is really from back-in-the-day at this point. oh and, also, i’m too sleepy and cranky to be out this late on a weeknight. ;P
speaking of cranky, a message to the guy who kept yelling “free bird” during quiet moments in the show: it still wasn’t funny the 4th or 5th time you yelled it. i’ll thank you for refraining from now on.
* it was a micro version of when we saw the pixies at bumbershoot a few years ago, their first real show after getting back together. the crowd couldn’t help but pitch in with the vocals at just the right moment during just the right song - it was strangely moving.
