The cottage gets spooky at dusk.

The oak skeletons of Franklin Park silhouetted against the 3:00 setting sun.

( More snapshotty stuff that shows the Zoo Library )

As I said earlier, we stayed at the Tween Waters Inn, in a room on the top floor of the building behind my dad in this picture. We were told that since it's "cold," that the manatees have moved away from the ocean into warmer inland waters.
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On a pretty but cold November day, my friend Nicole took her two boys to the zoo.
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Or since we're only on the one island is it a lesser antille?


One of the neighboring houses has the worst/best driveway I've ever seen.

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First snapshot with the new lens. Eh, not bad for a bunch of filing cabinets. I like that it goes wider than my old lens. Hows the macro?


Funny you should ask. It doesn't actually have a macro setting, but it focuses fairly close, as you can see from this shot of the tiny break on my old lens.


And not a bad grab of the sunset--don't know if I can credit the optics or whatever with the fact that you can see the houses in the foreground and yet the sky isn't washed out, but I like it. We've had really nice sunsets lately--too bad they're coming at 4:25.

Babbling Brook (the water that leaves Ward's Pond).

( The sun goes down over Jamaica Plain and Brookline )

This spider was found in a shipment of crickets. The Children's Zoo staff are now keeping it in a little terrarium as a sort of mascot in their lounge. I tried to identify it but it remains unknown to me.




This orange jelly fungus is only about an inch across. It's emerging from a painted bench. It might be witch's butter, but since that species is usually found on hardwoods and is a parasite of Stereum fungi, and this bench is most likely made of pine and probably doesn't have Stereum in it, I'm leaning toward Dacrymyces, an orange jelly that grows on pines and hemlocks.




Bonus Franklin Park Sunset.

Butterfly exhibit, cover removed for winter.



Bonus Franklin Park sunset.