early spring

Like trumpeters announcing that spring has arrived.

Ukrainian painted eggs

Industrial skyline with windmill in Medford, MA

Winter vista seen from a parking lot.

kale instead of lettuce

Kale was tasty mixed with lettuce in a salad, too.

bon appetit

French inspired cupcakes my daughter baked for school.

Sunday Morning at the MFA

Plum Island, December 25, 2011

Much time spent worshipping the fire.

post-Solstice berries and birds, Fresh Pond

Both squirrels and birds enjoy eating the berries, which add needed color to the winter landscape.

Late fall 2011, around the corner on Park Street

Chiluly at the MFA

Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas

Banderas, Texas (cowboy country)

late summer light on my neighbor's roof

Most of the apples have fallen off our Macoun tree (but here are two). My neighbor, whose roof is featured here, used to leave secret santa dog biscuits for Dusty every Christmas. Maybe I'll make this rear view shot of her house into a holiday card to give to her in December.

fresh pond fall '09

This is a city?!

tallest dahlias ever

newburyport

Beaver Brook

This is the park in Belmont where we used to go to a)catch crayfish and b)run around in the sprinkler park. It made for a nice lazy afternoon outing in the extreme heat. Cora worked on her rock stepping.

Ceci in the blue room

Our fuzzy, always happy, kitty. Room by Cora; photo by Larry.

details: arrow street, cambridge, ma

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You might ask, what (the heck) is a reversible collar? Made of cloth fused with paper, the collars were manufactured in the late 1860s. They were considered a step up from what were originally throw away paper collars.

cambridge rooftop view

I never noticed the beautiful details on this building until I was standing in a student's 5th floor apartment.