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The day before Halloween we had an Urban Nature Walk at good old Mount Auburn. Among other things, we saw North America's most massive bird species.
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The day before Halloween we had an Urban Nature Walk at good old Mount Auburn. Among other things, we saw North America's most massive bird species.
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Fall walks, part one
Oct. 22nd, 2016 02:03 pm
I got some pictures off my camera today, from a walk we took the first weekend of October. As it turned out it was one of Maggie's last walks, so I'm glad I captured it.
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August Urban Nature Walk at Turtle Pond!
Aug. 30th, 2016 07:12 pm
Urban Nature Walks happen on the last Sunday of the month--this shouldn't surprise me, but it often does. I sent out the call: is anyone else planning to walk somewhere? Fortunately my friend Teá said she was heading to Stonybrook Reservation to look for caterpillars! We ended up circumambulating Turtle Pond at a leisurely pace looking for all kinds of living things! This pair of bullfrogs is a good first sighting.
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Explorations
Jan. 8th, 2016 04:09 pm
It's nice to realize that there are still unseen places to discover in a city as small as Boston; I've lived here since August of 1987. This is a chunk of the Stonybrook Reservation that at least one community group would like to see renovated and converted into a dog park.
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Eerie Boston Landscape
Jan. 1st, 2016 08:15 pm
This remote snowy plain is actually the golf course in Franklin Park in Boston.
I went across the street from the zoo after work last Tuesday, when there was still some snow (actually sleet piled up white) on the ground, to look at the freaky landscape.
Of course, I was not alone.
As far as these Canada geese are concerned, a golf course in Boston is as good as a tundra in northern Canada.
Me and dad in the city
Jun. 28th, 2015 02:03 pm
Down by the Boston Waterfront District, the newest city park is the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Several lanes of automobile traffic were submerged into a tunnel and this lovely walkable open space in the middle of the city was created. Here my dad is looking at an organic garden beside the wall of skyscrapers.
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Pride 2015
Jun. 20th, 2015 08:40 am
A week ago I went to Boston (gay) Pride for the first time in many years. One of the first things I noticed was a lot more pet-based groups. Here I am posing with the MSPCA dog character, who somehow did not die in the heat.
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So the whole point of me going through everything I went through to get a suit was to wear it to Zootopia. This is the zoo's biggest fundraiser of the year, with big money auctions and awards and local politicians and so on. I found myself gravitating toward other zoo people and their animals for comfort.
I'll let you in on a little secret that I won't tell them over at tumblr. I'm going to slow release a whole mess of photos of organisms from this day to try to catch up on my 280 days of urbpandemonium project. The following post is mostly people and places kind of pictures, and lots of them.
Nickerson Beach is on a peninsula neighborhood known as Squantum in the city of Quincy. It sticks up into Boston Harbor and is very close to a couple of the harbor islands.
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On Saturday my dad visited, so I took us over to the Esplanade, the park that runs along the Charles River. There were lots of college students picking up trash for Earth Day.
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3:00 snapshot #1921: Saturday
Mar. 8th, 2015 09:31 am
Alex's new house! She's been there a few months, but I think this is one the first pictures I've taken that shows a lot of it. Alex and Alexis are suspending Jim with a stick. Alexis and I came over to help chip out some ice and ameliorate the dogs' cabin fever.
3:00 snapshot #1904: Wednesday
Feb. 19th, 2015 09:26 pm
Another one of those typically beautiful New England winter scenes.
3:00 snapshot #1749: Saturday
Sep. 18th, 2014 08:18 pm
On the ground in Boston, waiting for Alexis to come get us.
A little while earlier: the Back Bay on the horizon.
Carson Beach and South Boston in the foreground, the Financial District in the back.
3:00 snapshot #1740: Thursday
Sep. 7th, 2014 08:56 am
Duck is my co-pilot.
She looks a little nervous about the tunnel.
My dad came to visit on Sunday. Unbeknownst to him, an old LJ friend was also in town, so our mission was to meet up. First Dad had to love on his Charlie a little.
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New house + cockroaches = NBD
Aug. 10th, 2014 10:33 am
My friend just bought a house in West Roxbury. She was horrified to discover cockroaches in and around it! At my insistence she captured one, and I identified it as an Ectobius cockroach, probably the Mediterranean spotted cockroach E. pallidus, but also maybe the dusky cockroach E. lapponicus. In either case, these are not pest cockroaches—the Latin name Ectobius translates to “lives outside,” which is what they do most of the time. They get into houses about as often as earwigs and maybe a little less often than ladybeetles. Both Ectobius species in New England are native to Europe.
To Hull and back
Jul. 20th, 2014 06:32 pm
My dad came up to visit, and we went to my coworker's house in Hull for a visit. They immediately hit it off over the subject of women's basketball.
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