Franklin Park, Boston; Part one.

It's been too long since I've posted an urban nature post. Sorry about that. Partly it's because we have so many pictures taken (during our 2 weeks with automobile) that we haven't resized them all for blog use. Here's the first part of a photo-heavy post about Franklin Park in Boston. We took so many pictures that it's only right that I divide this into at least two posts.

Franklin Park is yet another part of the Emerald Necklace, Olmsted's brilliant landscape design that winds its way through Boston. Franklin Park, a sprawling greenspace containing a golf course and a zoo, is the southern end of the Necklace spreading from Jamaica Plain down to Mattapan.


We parked (alas, automobile is the easiest way to get there) along a maintenance/service road next to a pond.



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