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Another plein air in Concord. This the visitor center at the Old North Bridge. Too windy for the bridge itself. As it was the easel was almost taking off #watercolor #watercolorlandscape #landscapepainting #concordma #oldnorthbridge #pleinair

Patriots Day

Happy Patriots Day. No, we don’t have a holiday for a shitty football team. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has a state holiday to remember the start of the American Revolution. Fucking irony, eh?

Today is Marathon Monday in Boston. As a result, it is also the day we have the weirdness known as the 11:00am Red Sox game. The game starts early so that it ends at about the same time the Marathon runners are reaching Kenmore Square. You go to Fenway Park, watch the Red Sox, leave Fenway Park and head for the Green Line station and catch the leaders as they fly by. I’ve only participated in this once but it was a really cool experience.

Every year when Patriots Day comes around I go to work like it’s a normal Monday but I promise myself, I full on swear to myself, that next year… next year I am going to go to the North Bridge re-enactment of the first shots of the American Revolution in Minuteman National Park in Concord, MA and then I am going to go to the Red Sox game and then I am going to watch a bit of the Boston Marathon and then I will still be home before dinner.

And then every year I forget all about it until I wake up and realize it is Patriots Day again and I forgot about all of it. Oh well.

So the Pope died on Easter Sunday, eh? Wouldn’t it have been more on brand if he had died on Good Friday? Sorry… too soon?

I can’t help but be flippant about everything on Earth today. On top of the continuing collapse of American Democracy, I watched season two episode two of The Last of Us last night and it absolutely destroyed me. I knew from talking to a gamer player a few years ago that last night’s twist was coming, but I didn’t know when. I figured it would be late in the season, maybe in the finale. Nope. Episode two. On top of the twist, the whole thing going on in the town (no spoilers!) was maybe the most intense episode of television I’ve ever sat through. Damn. Just… damn.

In an attempt to calm myself down after watching that show last night, here’s a cat.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54465993041/in/datetaken/

That didn’t fix me so here’s another cat.

https://flickr.com/photos/robj_1971/54465993191/in/datetaken/

#bostonMarathon #Cat #fenwayPark #kenmoreSquare #Kitty #lexingtonAndConcord #lily #Massachusetts #minutemanNationalPark #oldNorthBridge #patriotsDay #photography #robin #Television #theLastOfUs

Today's #PhotoOfTheDay takes us to an important site during the USA's revolutionary war, Concord, Massachusetts.
I'm standing beside the Concord River admiring the reconstructed Old North Bridge. In April 1775 it was the site of the "Concord Fight", part of the larger Battles of Lexington and Concord.
#photography #massachusetts #concord #OldNorthBridge #HistoricSite #RevolutionaryWar #travel