Guinness and Friends from Northern Ireland

Running and sweating along my favorite path, the National Mall. I don't always get the opportunity to stop and grab a cold one -- not within eyeshot of the US Capitol, at least -- the Capitol Police or Park Police would be on top of me in a milisecond or less like a SWAT team on G-8 protestors.

The Legendary drummers Mark Wilson and Lee Lawson performing their magic on the snare 

But this cold one was a frosty Guinness, and today, was like no other day in balmy July on the throes of a long week and the tail end of one of my most favorite Folk Life Festivals thus far (Last year was Silk Roads and the year before featured arts and craft from Latin America).