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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photographs’
2 Nov
Photopost: Autumn Color
26 Sep
Photopost: Lake Wicwas
Some photographs from our recent weekend at Craig’s lodge by Lake Wicwas in New Hampshire.
All these photos and more in my online Lake Wicwas gallery.
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 [...]
30 Jul
Cities with Mountains
I’m a man of extremes. I love urban living, but when I want to get out of the city I want to get way out of the city, skipping over all those suburbs. Ideally my best vacation spot is on a remote trail hiking up a mountain. Too bad that the best of both worlds [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
25 Jun
The Flat is Where It’s At!
If a Jamaica Pond tour isn’t enough for one weekend, head to Charles/MGH station on Sunday June 28th as Boston By Foot presents the Tour of the Month, The Flat of Beacon Hill. This special tour will focus on the lesser known and once unfashionable area built on made land along the Charles River. Stepping [...]
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 [...]
27 May
Photopost: Outer Banks
Saw a lot of critters and little bit of art on our recent travels to North Carolina’s Outer Banks.
Visit my web photo album for many, many more pictures from this trip (most of them of my son).
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