Nearly 18 miles along the Somerville Community Path, the Charles and the Minuteman. I got caught in a wicked downpour about two-thirds of the way through. No surprise — the clouds looked pretty foreboding the whole time I was out.
Category: Photography
Dam work complete in the Middlesex Fells
First time in the Middlesex Fells in a few months, and I was happy to see that the restoration of the North Reservoir dam is finally complete. The road has been reopened and the water level has been restored to its normal level. Also: The Mosquito Rapture must have taken place, because there wasn’t a single one that I could detect. I’m not complaining.
Not Art
A few years ago I noticed a “Not Art” stencil for the first time, on a concrete barrier alongside the Mystic Path, which runs along the eastern shore of the Mystic Lakes. Over the winter I took pictures of every one I saw in Medford, Arlington and the Middlesex Fells. I didn’t go looking for them; I just documented what I encountered. And no, I didn’t know they were a thing until I Googled them. Here’s a Boston magazine story about them from 2014.
Cold spring day
Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich earlier today. I don’t care that the temperature was in the 40s — it was cold out there.
RBG
On the Somerville Community Path just outside of Davis Square.
Venus and Jupiter
Overhead in West Medford at 6:30 p.m. — the most striking conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that we’ll see until 2039.
Warm day, icy swamp
I hiked nearly six miles in Willowdale State Forest this afternoon — the first time I’ve been there since last May. Even though we had just one day of frigid weather followed by a week of unseasonably warm days, the swamps were still frozen over.
A snowy walk through Medford
A four-mile-plus stroll through Medford in the first measurable snow of the year.
The sun sets on 2022
We’ve had quite the sunsets this week. I just got back from a hike in the Middlesex Fells and took this at the South Reservoir.
Happy Thanksgiving!
May your day be spent with family, friends and appreciation for all the good things in our lives.
