Black squirrel and other Boston sights

[urbpan]

As I crossed from Beacon st over to the Esplanade (at Kenmore Square) I saw my first ever Boston specimen of a melanistic Sciurus carolinensis.

As long as I have involved North Station in my commute, I have admired this Betula papyrifera, growing from this improbable location: the elevated Green Line platform.
Not an Ailanthus, not even a Norway Maple, but a paper birch. It wasn't planted by any human hand, but its seed chose a crack in between steel and concrete some years ago. It would be nice to think that it will be carefully removed and replanted before they demolish the remaining el tracks, but I doubt that will happen (or even that it would survive such a transplantation).



Here's my view out the train window at North Station:


The rest of my day in photographs will be at mycology, once I dig up all the correct names.