I drove to Cambridge and back tonight. Three hours. I lost count of how many accidents I got stuck behind. Two of them temporarily closed the road I was on. One of those roads was Storrow Drive. Another was route 93. Hooray.
I took pictures from the car while I was stopped. They are kinda funny.
There were more, but they were even more awfuller. Oh well. At least I’m home. It’s 9:23 and now I can eat dinner. Hooray.
I just reblogged this from the film blog, noticed that somehow the title was in italics, fixed the title in the original post, deleted the reblog, tried to reblog the post again and found I could not, assumed it had something to do with the comment on the original post, deleted the comment, still couldn’t re-reblog, said screw it and posted it directly.
The clock in the center of town, as seen through my windshield and taken with my iPhone 14 Pro Max:
The same clock, taken with my Nikon D90 in Auto mode, pointed through the passenger door window and snapped without looking while stopped at a light right next to it.
And there you have it… two views of The Clock. I hope you enjoyed that. Please remember to tip your waitress. I’ll be here all week.
I stopped at the Spicket Falls Dam on the way home and snapped a few pics.
Safe bet that the next visit will be on film.
My final stop today was the riverwalk on Pawtucket Blvd in Lowell. The Merrimack looks huge there and I don’t think the shots came out very good. At least they don’t look as good as actually being there looked. I don’t know.
There are a couple of places where you can walk right to the water’s edge. My favs from the visit were taken at one of those spots.
The bridge in the distance is the Rourke Bridge. The story as I have heard it is the bridge was built by the Army Corps of Engineers as a temporary structure… back in the 1970’s (I think)… and it’s still there with huge amounts of traffic sitting on it around the clock. Either that story isn’t true, or it probably isn’t a good thing.
That’s my old school across the river, but that parking garage wasn’t there when I was a student.
And we close the post with a faux artsy lamp post shot. Like ya do.
And that is the end of my picture taking bonanza of a PTO Friday. Tomorrow we go to Vermont and we may take the scenic route… so hopefully another blitz of pics tomorrow. Bring it on, babie!
I was expecting the Shawsheen River to be super low, but I guess the rain we had over the last couple of days filled it up. It was actually a little bit over the bank at this spot.
You get to this spot from the parking lot of the K of C hall where we had our wedding reception. Romantic, eh? The bridge is route 38, which is the road the house I grew up in is on.
There are a couple of other spots on the Shawsheen that are accessible. I’ll save those for another day. Up next is more Merrimack River, this time in Lowell.
I went out to run an errand and snuck away to a few spots to snap a few more pics. These are Long Pond in Tewksbury. This is just down the street from the house I grew up in, but the parking area and the nice, neat little park is new.
I messed around with a polarizing filter. Here we can see it removing the reflections off of the water…
…and here it is not removing the reflections…
Up next will be the Shawsheen River, also in Tewksbury.
Waterfalls in Massachusetts? The easier the trail the better, but they all sound like fun.
I went to that park near my mother’s facility after leaving her today. It’s a nice open space with a little garden with a stone bridge and a gazebo and a couple of war memorials and lots of park benches and one huge ass cannon.
I took a bunch of pictures and didn’t like any of them. I felt the same way when I saw the film shots I took there a few weeks ago too. Just… blah. Then I converted today’s pics to black and white and now they are almost okay. Here’s a few…
Here are a couple of color pics too, just for the record.
We are supposed to get some rain tomorrow, but the morning weather forecast looks good. That means another morning of picture taking goofiness.
Where should I go?
No idea.
I need to put an office chair together and I need to do some grocery shopping and I need to visit my mother. Does any of that help me come up with picture taking ideas? No, not even a little bit.
I have two days off coming up. A Friday and a Monday. One of those days (weather permitting) will include some time in Boston and/or Cambridge. I’m going to try to recreate this little bastard again:
I also want to go to a few places I don’t think I’ve ever visited with a camera. It’s all dependent on the weather, of course, but it really just means that I don’t want to go to the city tomorrow.
Tewksbury? Lowell again? Billerica? Concord? Who knows. I’ll tell you once I figure it out.
Happy trails, eh?
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