29 Thursday Oct 2009
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This is the first in a series of snapshots I took at the MHS recently, when I happened to have my camera in my bag when I went in to work. (Some of them are a bit blurry or dim, due to not using a flash). This is a shot from the third floor looking down the spiral stair to the reception desk in our first floor lobby.
24 Saturday Oct 2009
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Hanna and I admire this pot every time we walk passed it on our way to the Clear Flour bakery.
22 Thursday Oct 2009
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After this, I promise pictures of things other than graffiti for a while. But I just had to share this awesome wall of graffiti art outside the auto garage down the street from our apartment. It’s an ever-changing work of art, but the colors of this incarnation make me especially happy.
18 Sunday Oct 2009
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The thing I like best about the graffiti on this fire hydrant is the little circle above “holy” that looks like a halo. It makes the overall effect one of a person trying to swear and be cute at the same time.
15 Thursday Oct 2009
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I noticed this little guy painted on one of the walls near our apartment recently. He/she/it looks adorable which probably means he/she/it is about to rip out my throat.
13 Tuesday Oct 2009
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Hanna’s parents were in town Sunday (bringing Lionel to stay) and we T-ed out to Porter Square to check out a yarn shop that Hanna’s mom wanted to visit. When we stepped off the T in Porter Square, we walked right into the midst of the Honk! Festival parade. Bostonist has a gallery of photos if you’re interested in seeing some of the great costumes. It was a beautiful day and all the participants looked like they were having lots of fun.
Hanna and I are both recovering from very bad colds (maybe the dreaded H1N1?!) that had us at half-mast — and sometimes much less — for the better part of two weeks . . . so no more substantial posts for the minute. Watch for a report at the Beehive blog over the next couple of days from a brown-bag talk I attended last week, and next week I should have pictures and notes from our weekend in Burlington, attending the New England Historical Association’s fall conference at the University of Vermont. Until then, it’s back to the catch-up “to do” list . . .
12 Monday Oct 2009
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This is a photograph I took last week of the front stoop of a house that has just been renovated in the neighborhood behind our apartment building.
08 Thursday Oct 2009
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This appeared on one of the walls passed which Hanna and I often walk home from work. We’ve had a lot of conversations about what sort of political statement the artist thought they were making — and whether they understood the ramifications of either, a) abolishing the federal reserve or b) the federal government.
05 Monday Oct 2009
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There’s a playground around the corner from our apartment that Hanna and I walk through quite frequently on our daily commute. Therein resides a child’s plastic scooter. We never see any of the numerous children who play in the park actually on the scooter, but whenever we pass by it is in a slightly different location, always looking slightly forelorn. Hanna thinks it’s mostly likely possessed.
21 Monday Sep 2009
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I finally snapped a picture of this piece of graffiti in our neighborhood that makes me laugh every time I walk passed it.
I’m assuming the punctuation was meant to be an exclamation point emphasizing this (supposed) sexual activity of Lisa’s; instead it came out as more of a query, giving the phrase a tentative aura: maybe this girl we know likes anal sex? we aren’t sure? Well done y’all!
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