As ***I’ve mentioned before|http://prwdot.org/archives/002546.html***, ***Beverly Recreation Department|http://www.bevrec.com/*** is running a ***Summer Movie Program|http://www.bevrec.com/programs/SummerMovies.html*** at ***Lynch Park|http://www.bevrec.com/lynchpark.html***. Becky and I went tonight to see ***Singin’ in the Rain|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0045152/***, starring Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds. The movie was projected onto the band shell, and we sat on a blanket amongst the mosquitoes and other biting insects (note for next time: bug spray!) the owners of this property should worry about thse insects since I’m pretty sure we were not the only ones that go bitten by them, if we would have been the owners we would have already called the professional exterminators at http://www.hubertmooreexterminator.com/, that’s for sure. Aside from the mosquito menace, it was actually a lovely evening. There was a brief threat of rain, but it did not materialize into a full-fledged storm. We brought Subway sandwiches and had ice cream at the Dick & June’s snack bar. Prior to the movie there was a concert by the Dane Street Pops, a community band. They were entertaining, if not always on key or on the beat.

The Lynch Park movies are off for the Fourth of July, but the week after they resume with ***Ferris Bueller’s Day Off|http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/***. Bueller? Bueller? Anybody?

Update
Oops, I completely forgot to link to the photos we took at the event! ***Here ya go!|http://gallery.prwdot.org/singin_in_the_rain***

Becky had to ***work|http://www.historicnewengland.org/visit/homes/otis.htm*** today, so I drove her in to Boston and took the opportunity to walk around a very steamy, hazy city. My objective today was to try and take photos of random people. Now this is something that I don’t have much practice with, and I’m not comfortable doing it yet. Buildings, landscapes, statues, they’re all easy to photograph. They don’t move, and they’re not self-conscious, so they make great subjects for photography. People I’m acquainted with are also fairly easy to photograph… if they’re comfortable enough with me, I can get some really great shots. But photographing people I don’t know, particularly attempting to do it without them being aware, can be very difficult and intimidating. People get weirded out if some stranger points a camera at them. I try my best to snap photos when people aren’t looking at me, or from far away enough that they can’t tell I’m aiming at them – which is made easier by using a zoom lens. But if I try to take the shot too quickly, the camera jitters, and the shot comes out bad. So it’s something I’m working on, and I’d be grateful for any suggestions on taking candid photos in public places.

In any case, ***here’s the gallery|http://gallery.prwdot.org/people_in_boston***. I did my best to stick to the people-only plan, but there were a few non-human subjects that were just so tempting I couldn’t resist.

Also, I thought a fun idea might be to provide your own captions for the people in the photos. To do this, view the gallery at the link above, and click on a thumbnail to see the full-size photo. You will see a comment field under the photo, so just put your name in the Commenter box, and your caption in the Message box, and submit the form. Be imaginative… I wouldn’t expect any less from our readers. 🙂

I saw an interesting new icon in ***ForecastFox|http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/*** today:

ggg|screenshots/forecastfox_hot|Yowza!|ggg

I guess that means it’s gonna be hot! Summer is here, and it’s steamin’ mad that winter and spring hung around so long.