February 9, 2010

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The photograph is of a girl who had a lemonade stand with her friend one summer afternoon along the Minuteman Bikeway just outside the center of Lexington, Mass. The Minuteman is one of the best bike trips you can do around Boston, or anywhere for that matter. Camera: Olympus D-620L (now 10 years old and still on its first 'roll of film'). Editor: Adobe PhotoDeluxe (an old, bundled PhotoShop Jr.).

For some reason, the Blogger editing interface changed when I added Amazon - and for the better. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Or maybe it was just there all along and who knew.

Potted up the Mexican Wild tomatoes. Stout, compact plants, not at all leggy. They have a large first (real) leaf with just traces of the second.

Image ... Lemonade Girl. The Minuteman Bikeway. Lexington, Mass.

February 1, 2010

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This photograph is composed of many triangles - arrows, spears and convergences. It was taken from inside the Copps Hill Burying Ground, in the North End, looking down onto Snowhill Street running in the foreground.

A friend of mine, Al Petrucelli, said he used roller skate down Snowhill and stop his imminent demise by grabbing onto and swinging around the sign post at the apex of the triangular front yard of the peaked little witch's house.

Peter and I spent the day doing a project on Beacon Hill. Cold bike rides there and back again. It's cool that we get our fitness training in the course of getting paid rather than paying a gym to ride a bike in front of a TV screen. With people who, at a guess, are in front of screens all day.


Image ... Snowhill Street, Boston, from the Copps Hill Burying Ground.

Snow Train | On the Cover . 9

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On the Cover is a sneak peek at Roofscape Magazine's next cover (January 15), with the story behind making the image.

Snow Train was made in Haverhill, Massachusetts as the commuter train from Boston pulled into the station early one morning in a snow squall. By: Stephen Bastide. Camera: Olympus D-620L.

1/10/10 ... Actually, this was to be the cover, but it got bumped in favor of an undeniable photograph of Martin Luther King to lead the article Dr. King's Time in Boston, previewed above.