Autumn in New England brings beautiful, crisp days and brilliant colors to the trees. I think this year’s foliage has been particularly brilliant. The past couple of weeks I’ve been taking photos around the city, mainly in Arnold Arboretum and collected them in a photo gallery called Autumn Color.
I also had the delightful serendipity of [...]
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2 Nov
Photopost: Autumn Color
30 Aug
Boston By Foot Tour of the Month – Preserving Boston’s History
Today I took Boston By Foot’s August Tour of the Month focusing on the Historic Preservation movement entitled Preserving Boston’s History. The tour featured many familiar Boston landmarks and the guide informed us how historic preservationists saved many of them from the dustheap.
I’ve put a gallery of photos from the tour on my website.
Highlights include:
the [...]
30 Aug
Photopost: Drumlin Farm
When I was a kid I liked to visit farm museums where I could see all sorts of farm animals and a different way of life from my suburban upbringing. I’ve written about a couple of these magical places before – The Stamford Museum and Nature Center and Old MacDonald’s Farm. As an adult I’ve [...]
16 Jul
Forest Hills Cemetery Lantern Festival
Tonight we attended the 11th Annual Lantern Festival at Forest Hills Cemetery right here in Jamaica Plain. This is the first time we’ve attended since moving to JP as last year I was violently ill at the time the festival occurred. This year we had just as good a reason not to go and that [...]
9 Jul
Boston By Foot Waterfront Tour
Celebrate Sail Boston ‘09 with a Boston By Foot walking tour of the Boston Waterfront. Meet at the Sam Adams statue in Dock Square by Faneuil Hall on Friday, July 10th 2009. The ninety-minute tour steps off at 6 pm and will cover much of the made land that once was the waterfront in colonial [...]
2 Jul
Benjamin Franklin in Boston
Does the name “Benjamin Franklin” bring to mind an elderly man with a bald pate and a pot belly? Well, Ben Franklin was a boy once too and his boyhood was spent right here in the city of Boston. Come learn about Benjamin Franklin’s early days and influences on the Boston By Foot walking tour [...]
20 Jun
Boston Walking Tours 2009
Last year I posted a list of walking tours in the Boston area in hopes of encouraging people to get out and explore the history, architecture, culture, topography, and nature of the area. I’ve updated the list and links for 2009, once again giving primacy of place to the two organizations in which I volunteer [...]
27 May
Photopost: Boston Nature Center
Did you know that Boston has a nature center? I didn’t until I moved to Jamaica Plain and saw that it was fairly close to our house as the crow flies. Despite this knowledge it’s taken me a year and a half to finally make the 1.5-mile walk to Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center and [...]
11 May
Arnold Arboretum’s Lilac Sunday
I hesistate to put “Lilac Sunday” into the title of this post since I didn’t see any lilacs on my visit. Susan, Peter & I took a lovely Mother’s Day walk on a sunny, blustery day and arrived at Arnold Arboretum fairly early in the morning. This is a good time to get there on [...]
26 Apr
James Joyce Ramble
This morning my son Peter & I went to watch the James Joyce Ramble 10 K road race in Dedham, MA. I’m not much for spectating road races in general but this perked my interest because:
I’ve been meaning to visit the town of Dedham for some time.
The website for the James Joyce Ramble said there [...]
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