pic-perfect day
Promised months ago, would not marathon Memorial Day weekend. No race conflicts permitted during Ash & Tom’s Colorado wedding [or 2 weeks following – dog-sitting my grandpup during their Iceland honeymoon].
Week before? No such promise. Targeting run #90, 5th in 6 weeks, 12th of 2017.
Flight delay in Chicago, +2 hour time difference, arrived in Manchester 2:30am Saturday morning. Six hours sleep, short 2 mile pre-marathon run (‘cause every day’s a run day), hit the highway – destination: Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 2 cars: Stephen, Sheila, daughter-in-law Ashley & two toddlers. Beautiful sunshiny day.
Portsmouth’s right on the water – New Hampshire’s only port city. Public parking off Market, street-scanned for grub. Irish pub, outdoor seating. Check, done 🙂
Post-lunch walk in Prescott Park, along the Piscataqua River. Picture perfect New England. Alarm sounded. Watched Memorial Bridge lift, allowing a passing ship to clear its mast. History-trekk’d thru Portsmouth Navy Yard while Ashley’s kids climbed atop the Park’s whaling memorial. AND there was ice cream ❤
More of Stephen’s family – Patricia, Noreen & Maggie – joined before his concert start at Christ Episcopal Church. Second year singing, my first time attending. Gotta get back for Christmas — hear the conductor wears jingle bells & a tree. SUPER FUN day!
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- WWI Memorial Bridge: vertical-lift bridge linking Portsmouth & Kittery, Maine
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- celebrating New England’s whaling history
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- Prescott Park
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- intermission & a costume change
UPDATE: Friday Jun 9th – National Anthem at Red Sox’s Fenway Park
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- Boston’s Fenway Park
WWI Memorial Bridge (NH to Maine)
5+ years living in Colorado, never attended a concert.
Red Rocks in September, then Stevie Nicks at the Pepsi Center – what luck! Received a phone call at lunch asking if I was available to attend same night. Yep, that’s the way it went down. Stevie Nicks, FREE ticket, seriously? ABSOLUTELY!!
Rode to Denver with a neighbor…so didn’t even have to drive. (but not a complete moocher, I did pay for parking 🙂 )
Will Call’d my ticket – 5th row. Opening act? Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders. Are you kidding me?!! First time in ’the Can’ (as locals call the Pepsi Center) – FAAANNNTASTIC – great music, great venue, great night. Entire evening, almost too good to be true.
September quote repeat: Don’t be afraid to say YES to the unexpected. Be spontaneous, life is meant to be lived.
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- first concert in ‘the Can’
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- Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders
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- Stevie Nicks
the Pretenders
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Nicks *FINALE*
Lucky in life. My North End neighbor Larry had an extra concert ticket to Red Rocks Sunday nite.
Ray LaMontagne. Never heard of him – didn’t matter. Great company, great music, great venue, great night.
Don’t be afraid to say YES to the unexpected. Be spontaneous, life is meant to be lived.
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- SOLD OUT!
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- best amphitheatre in the USA
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- first Red Rocks
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- Grammy WINNER Ray LaMontagne
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- check out the moon (upper right)
Grammy WINNER Ray LaMontagne (audio only)
Red Rocks Amphitheatre is a rock structure near Morrison, Colorado, where concerts are given in the open-air amphitheatre. Red Rocks Amphitheater is a naturally formed, world famous outdoor venue just fifteen miles west of Denver. There is a large, tilted, disc-shaped rock behind the stage, a huge vertical rock angled outwards from stage right, several large outcrops angled outwards from stage left and a seating area for up to 9,525 people.
Rolling Stone magazine has ruled the best amphitheater in the United States is Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison. Red Rocks was judged to be better than even New York’s Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl, which were Nos. 2 and 3, respectively.
Public, organizational and private performances have been held at Red Rocks for more than 100 years. The earliest documented performance at the amphitheater was the Grand Opening of the Garden of the Titans, put on by famed editor John Brisben Walker on May 31, 1906. Featuring Pietro Satriano and his 25-piece brass band, it was the formal opening of the natural amphitheater for use by the general public after Walker purchased it with the proceeds of his sale of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
