Watertown, the East Side Club, and Jazz Fest

 

Today Travalon and I drove to Watertown, where we went to Literatus and tried their flight of iced coffees and flight of pies. This iced coffee looks like it's fit for a flapper!

I kind of hated that wild berry pie refresher at first, but a few sips in and I really liked it. In case you are wondering what we got, here's the list:

I ate a bite of each pie and half my southwest chicken sandwich, and Travalon and I split the iced coffees. We both liked the pumpkin pie chai one best. Then we went for a walk on Tivoli Island. Travalon took some photos with his good camera. This is a mama and baby duck.

We found a tree tunnel!

Here is the dam.

There used to be buildings on the island, and this might have been a fountain.

I took this photo of something in the water. It looks like a lamppost. 

While on the island we saw four girls who looked identical (one was slightly smaller than the others), and we heard a train horn. We had been planning to go to a park the train goes through, but there was no point because we had already missed it. Instead, we headed back to town and found a place off Fair Oaks where train cars were just parked, and we could get up close to them. So much good graffiti!

There was even graffiti on the bridge.

We went to the East Side Club and listened to a blues band for a while, then we went to State Street and got some blueberry-lemon flavored infused drinks. Then we went to the Union Terrace to catch some of Jazz Fest. We saw lots of interesting people there, including a guy carrying two radishes. The first band we saw was led by renowned trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and they were really good, doing classic jazz. The warning whistle for the boats went off, but they kept playing, and everyone cheered. There was a glorious sunset.

You can kind of see the band in this photo:

I did buy a commemorative T-shirt to support the festival. The band after that was a funk band, and at first we kind of liked them, but then they just went off on these long grooves that were good but didn't go anywhere, so we headed home. The moon behind the clouds over these two churches was beautiful.

Here's a closer shot of St. Paul's.

Protest on the sidewalk:

The very colorful Overture Center behind some other buildings:

What a wonderful day of coffee tasting, island hiking, and listening to music. I love summer Saturdays!

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