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Nice day for a walk--and a swim
Nov. 1st, 2009 11:01 am
So it was so warm we decided to walk to Ward's Pond and let Charlie have a swim. It was very windy and here Alexis is surrounded by blowing leaves.
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Muddy River 09/07/09, 2:50 p.m.
Sep. 7th, 2009 06:00 pm
This little one hitchhiked on me on the way home.
It was surprisingly warm today, so I took Charlie to Ward's Pond, despite the rain.
A soda bottle sailboat sat on the still, leaf-choked pond.
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Charlie in Ward's Pond; Alexis and geese.
Apr. 27th, 2008 05:22 pm
Charlie and I went to Ward's Pond yesterday. Still too cold for me to go in, but he liked it.
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Noticing the year plus random
Apr. 26th, 2008 09:12 pmboy i sure post a lot on weekends
sorry about the post i made that disappeared. it was intended for thequestionclub originally. i appreciate the comments i got before it was deleted, though!
Today I saw tree swallows at ward's pond, and this evening we saw a wild turkey in the riverway.
I did some research about Mattapan for tomorrow's Urban nature walk--which may be completely unattended. It was a Jewish neighborhood up until the 60's, then a group called Boston Bank Urban Renewal Group began providing loans to African Americans to buy homes in the area. By the 70's almost all the Jewish families had moved elsewhere, and today the population is over 90 percent of African and Caribbean descent. Mattapan has the highest concentration of Haitian people anywhere in Massachusetts. The neighborhood has the second least amount of public land per capita, after the south end. Most of the public land is in the Boston Nature Center, where we're walking tomorrow.
I wish weekends were 4 days long.
sorry about the post i made that disappeared. it was intended for thequestionclub originally. i appreciate the comments i got before it was deleted, though!
Today I saw tree swallows at ward's pond, and this evening we saw a wild turkey in the riverway.
I did some research about Mattapan for tomorrow's Urban nature walk--which may be completely unattended. It was a Jewish neighborhood up until the 60's, then a group called Boston Bank Urban Renewal Group began providing loans to African Americans to buy homes in the area. By the 70's almost all the Jewish families had moved elsewhere, and today the population is over 90 percent of African and Caribbean descent. Mattapan has the highest concentration of Haitian people anywhere in Massachusetts. The neighborhood has the second least amount of public land per capita, after the south end. Most of the public land is in the Boston Nature Center, where we're walking tomorrow.
I wish weekends were 4 days long.
Routine Disruption Random
Feb. 19th, 2008 06:45 pm
With my routine as disrupted as it has been, I've kind of lost track of livejournal. Here's my photo from our 4th anniversary celebration at Flanns. ( Read more... )
Noticing the year 02/03/08
Feb. 3rd, 2008 04:46 pmAlexis and I noticed many things outside today. It was a nice change from noticing things about how we felt and about our workplaces. It's very therapeutic to open ourselves up to noticing the outside world, to see the details and feel aware of the rhythms of nature, even--or perhaps especially--in the city. We walked to Ward's Pond, our favorite place in Boston, tucked away in Olmsted Park between Brookline and Jamaica Plain.
Almost immediately, Alexis noticed that the Canada Geese had gathered in pairs. They moved away from us and our dogs, not in a chaotic swarm, but in orderly twos with the occasional straggling solo goose.
Then a pair of small ducks close to shore caught my eye. The smaller ducks tend to be the shy migrators that stop down from Canada, and they tend to stay out in the middle of Leverett Pond, far from dogs and people in the park. We got closer, and were delighted to not recognize them. Alexis suspected they were teals, and once we got home to look at our field guides, that turned out to be true. They are green-winged teals (Anas crecca), tiny relatives of the mallard, found, with some subspecies variation, throughout the Northern Hemisphere's waters.
just a glimpse through the swamp dogwood as they swim away( Read more... )
Almost immediately, Alexis noticed that the Canada Geese had gathered in pairs. They moved away from us and our dogs, not in a chaotic swarm, but in orderly twos with the occasional straggling solo goose.
Then a pair of small ducks close to shore caught my eye. The smaller ducks tend to be the shy migrators that stop down from Canada, and they tend to stay out in the middle of Leverett Pond, far from dogs and people in the park. We got closer, and were delighted to not recognize them. Alexis suspected they were teals, and once we got home to look at our field guides, that turned out to be true. They are green-winged teals (Anas crecca), tiny relatives of the mallard, found, with some subspecies variation, throughout the Northern Hemisphere's waters.
just a glimpse through the swamp dogwood as they swim away( Read more... )
