summer

Vineyard Vacay, part one: WMVY Concert

Posted by Ivy

Haven’t posted in a while…oopsie. I was distracted by the end of Staff Photo (I still have to put up the photos from my Crazy Photo Saturday, during which I had five assignments), moving to a new apartment, and heading home to New England for a week and a half.

I’m back in classes now, starting my last fall semester ever–which is weird–and am going to try very hard to post everything else from this summer before Friday.

To start, here are a few photos from a concert I went to last Thursday- it was a benefit for a radio station on Martha’s Vineyard featuring kahoots and Willy Mason, both homegrown Vineyard acts, although Willy Mason is a little more well-known outside of the island. I couldn’t use my flash, so this turned out to be an epic exercise in handholding.

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Disclaimer: I was being very lazy that night and didn’t feel like giving up my nice prime seating to manuever through a crowd to get different POVs…next time I’ll work the angles a bit more.

Down by the Bay: Baseball + Fireworks

Posted by Ivy

I’m procrastinating writing a paper for Qualitative, and figured now was as good a time as any to post the penultimate entry from my San Francisco trip.

On Friday, July 3, I went with my family and my friend Seth to see the San Francisco Giants play the Houston Astros. I wouldn’t call myself a hardcore Astros fan, but I did go to school in Houston for four years, so I’d probably err on their side when picking an NL team to root for. However, the Astros of 2009 are nothing like the Astros of a few years ago–the team that went to the World Series and had the power trio (the Killer Bs) of Berkman, Biggio and Bagwell. They ended up losing 9-0. Ouch. To be fair, San Francisco’s pitcher was absolutely brilliant- and it was only his second start!

There was also a fireworks show after the game, which rocked. I’m already excited for the fireworks in Oak Bluffs next month, but that’s partially because I’m really excited about going back to the East Coast for a couple weeks.

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Baseball hooray!

Posted by Ivy

I’m trying really hard to actually post Missourian assignments…so here’s an enterprise photo from today. I was waiting around for Show-Me State bowling to start, and started to head back to the newsroom when I realized they were playing Show-Me State baseball at Hickman Field. Baseball, for the record, is way more fun to shoot than bowling is.

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Right fielder Brennen Wood of the West Plains Zs connects with a pitch from Eliel Malpica, back left, of the North County Indians during the pool round of Show-Me State baseball, held July 18 at Hickman Field in Columbia. Despite Wood’s efforts, the Indians won 10-1.