Scenes from Saturday

I have never attended a protest until this past Saturday. A crowd of about 3000 people gathered peacefully under the warm California sun at the Oxbow Commons in Napa. Together we said The Pledge of Allegiance and sang “This Land is Your Land.” Our County Supervisor, born from immigrant parents and a US citizen by birthright, spoke about the fragility of democracy. Our Congressman asked us to bow our heads in a moment of silence for the those killed and injured in what apparently was a politically motivated shooting that occurred hours earlier in Minnesota.

I guess I wanted to do something, anything and this seemed like that. And I wanted to be around other people who were as concerned about what is going on in our country as I am.

I took my Fujifilm X-T1 with me and set it to capture the day in black and white.