Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, greenway, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway on March 22, 2012| 2 Comments »
Who would have imagined it would be 80 degrees in March! I certainly enjoyed being able to take a walk I usually take in the summer and check out the flowers and art.
Search this blog on “Greenway” for more pictures and posts about the lovely Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in Boston. Here’s what it looked like today.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, boston, chinatown, greenway, occupy boston, public art on February 14, 2012| Leave a Comment »
The last time we checked in at the Greenway, Occupy Boston had just departed, and new sod was being laid down where there had been tents.
Today I walked in both directions along the Greenway and took pictures of the new art. In front of the Boston Harbor Hotel is a temporary exhibit called Ice Chimes. It is designed to enhance the music of icicles. In the other direction, near the gateway to Chinatown is a sculpture with what looks like the sail of a junk and another sculpture of white sticks.
Pictures may serve better than words.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, christmas, eric peterson, greenway, holiday, landscape, model railroad, ralph williams, south station, trains, trees and trains, winter on December 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A building gets wrapped with a bow, friends volunteer to hammer in some color along Greenway walks, South Station digs out its toy trains (display by these folks).
We don’t have snow, but we’re pretty festive anyway.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged big dig, farmers market, greenway, rose kennedy greenway on August 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Efforts are underway to reclaim the soil pounded to smithereens by the Big Dig. Certain plants are considered especially restorative, and I have enjoyed watching them grow on the strip between the farmers market plaza and the Greenway.
By the way, the Greenway, of which I have written before is just gorgeous at this time of year. Everyone walking through there looks happy. And most people seem content to obey the rules. Here is a rule written in the Greenway’s typically lighthearted style.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged boston, bryant park, carousel, comedy, greenway, horse race, improv, yoga on July 12, 2011| 1 Comment »
Before it got hot this morning, a yoga class was exercising at one end of the Greenway.
At the other end, carousel horses waited for riders.
Meanwhile in New York, an improv troupe approached a different carousel.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged DeCordova, greenway, sculpture, Tom Otterness on July 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
While I was taking my morning walks elsewhere, The Greenway seems to have sprouted sculpture — and in the very spot where mere weeks ago, a sign warned “Grass is Resting” and invited me to hang my art on the rope.
The DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., is behind the transformation.
I love that the creator of the toothy beaver and the literary opossum is called Otter-Something. Tom Otterness.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged art, boston, card, collage, conservancy, grass, greenway, greeting card, sod on June 11, 2011|
Earlier this week, I was walking in the Greenway and noticed that new sod had been placed and roped off.
The sign said, “Grass is resting but feel free to hang your art on the rope.” I thought, “Wow, someone in the Greenway Conservancy is really thinking!”
Today I came back. I believe I was the first to hang my art on the rope.
The art is a copy of a collage I made for a greeting card. Actually for a sympathy card when my Aunt Maggie died. She liked purple. I enjoy making greeting cards from collage materials — postcards, magazine art, brochures. I collect these scraps all the time, and when I’m gearing up to make a card for someone, I sift through and pull out pieces that remind me of the person. If I really like the card a lot, I make copies.
A shot of the original card is below.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dewey_square, farmers_market, greenway, pastry, postaday, sweden, swedish on May 26, 2011|
After a mostly cold and rainy month of May, the sun shone, and there was a lovely warm wind.
But the weather can change again. A surer sign of summer is something that happens outside my office on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the season. So I’m excited that the farmers market returned to Dewey Square today.
There were lots of fresh vegetables and flowers, baked goods (including bread from Maine’s ever popular When Pigs Fly), nuts, prepared foods, preserves, and more. I ended up buying some nice-looking granola. Also a Swedish almond cake because son-in-law Erik is from Sweden, and I am a sucker for pastries said to be Swedish.
The Farmers Market is at one end of the Rose Kennedy Greenway, across from South Station. I wrote about the Greenway a couple days ago, here.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged big_dig, carousel, equal_exchange, flowers, fountains, greenway, music, rose_kennedy, sculpture, urban_garden on May 24, 2011|
Sometimes I take my morning walk in the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a lovely urban garden created on top of the Big Dig. I know the American Taxpayer paid too much for the Big Dig, but I just want to say I am really grateful for the Greenway. The mayor, among others, is concerned that not that many people use it yet, that it seems to be there just for Suzanne’s Mom and a few office workers. But now there is a carousel in summer and the Boston Harbor Islands visitor center and various food vendors — all of which are expected to attract more visitors. One vendor is Equal Exchange, the fair-trade coffee company. (You can follow Equal Exchange’s carts on Twitter at EEFreeRange.)
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