How to win a rain out....

“Now there’s three things you can do in a baseball game:  You can win or you can lose or it can rain.” ~Casey Stengel

We must have been channeling Casey Stengel in June when a group from the Massasoit Art Guild decided to take a bus trip to Salem, Massachusetts.  The plan was to ride up there to enjoy a boat ride and a little bit of time walking around Salem.  On a nice day, that would definitely have been a win.  Or, I suppose, the weather could have been sooooo bad that the trip would have been canceled.  That would have been a loss.  But what we got was rain.

I’m not complaining.  The boat trip was good even though the last third of it was in a downpour.  I still took a few photos although my paranoia about getting my equipment wet won out in the end and I was more concerned about ruining something than getting a usable shot.  But I got a few nonetheless.

Well, these photos have been stewing on my hard drive for a little while now.  We actually took this Salem trip a month ago on June 11.  But my excuse is that I have been pretty busy this summer.  Lame, I know.  I should have looked at them right away but got distracted by something or other and didn’t get to them until now.

While looking through them, I realized that on a grey day out on the water, things look pretty black and white.  So I decided to process many of them in black and white.  I also realized that a pretty darn good way to get dry after a rainy boat ride is to eat clam chowder and drink a nice micro-brewed stout for lunch.  That’s how to win even if you get rained out.

Thanks to Don Doe for planning this trip.