Baseball

The game started with a thunderstorm. Or should I say, did not start.

There was a tarp that covered the field. It took a rather large crew to clean it up.

They dragged it first off the field. Then, they folded it.

Here's more folding.

Still dragging.

Wide shot.

Players finally on the field only an hour late!

Cute pitch. :)

Batter up.

Swing!!

Bases loaded.

Grand slam. No joke. My first professional baseball game and I get to see a grand slam. Too bad it was for the team we were NOT rooting for. :)

There we are, watching the game.

Stat board. Took me only seven innings to figure out.

Stadium at night.

Yesterday

This is what we did yesterday. We started here:

Then we took a drive and started a walk here:

Which led us here:

Which looks like this from the inside:

Then we walked back so we could go around the lake.

And kept walking.

There were some pretty cool trees. Bug is showing this one off.

A pretty path:

Ducks in a row.

Look. There's the Jefferson Memorial across the water.

WWII Memorial.

View of the Washington Monument from WWII.

I liked the flag.

Bug and Mike showing off the fountain.

This was above our heads.

More ducks.

I liked this shot. (Obviously you could see this one from everywhere.)

Cool trees right before the Vietnam Memorial.

The Vietnam Memorial was fun to take pictures of.

Another fun shot.

Lots of people had left flags and flowers.

Did I mention you could see it everywhere?

The sun was shining right above the Lincoln Memorial.

There he is.

Korean War Memorial.

Liked this quote.

You could barely see the Lincoln Memorial through the gap.

Um...

On the walk back, we saw this some more.

It looked so pretty.

The waterside walk was nice and shady.

From everywhere. Really.

Can you see Jefferson?

Finally almost back to the car!!!

May Report

No pictures for this one. I didn't read too much in May because we were busy with getting ready for our trip as well as many other things. My two non-fictions were borderline cheater books, maybe. Lots and lots of pictures. :) But I finished two. So here it is.

Non-fiction:
Williamsburg, Jamestown, & Yorktown - Robert Llewellyn
Monet: Life and Works - Marianne Sachs

Green covers for the challenge:
A Thousand Tomorrows - Karen Kingsbury
Close to Famous - Joan Bauer
Stuck in the Middle - Virginia Smith
Leaving Carolina - Tamara Leigh

I read several non-challenge books, also, but none to particularly recommend. I wouldn't particularly recommend any of these, either. They were mostly fine, but nothing I felt the need to rush out to share with somebody.

On a different note, look for pictures of what I've been doing recently in the near future. (Maybe even today if I'm productive!) :)

June Challenge

Sorry this is late. I'm on vacation, so I probably won't be updating much over the next few weeks - if at all. But I wanted to put up the challenge for this month. (I'll have to report about last month later.) So here it is:

I got this idea from a group of Goodreads, but I love it. It's a longer challenge, but once again, I love it. :) June is the month of weddings. There's the saying "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." Read an old favorite, a book you've never read before, a book you borrowed either from the library or a friend, and a book that either has "blue" in the title or the cover is blue.

And don't forget the two non-fiction. :)