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Checking out the semi-finished southern end of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail
I took a fairly short 13-mile bike ride this afternoon on the new, southern part of the Bruce Freeman Rail Trail, over the not-quite-finished Route 2 overpass and on to the West Concord train station,...
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Waltham ride
Twenty-three-mile bike ride to Waltham and back. I believe this is the Waltham Watch Factory, which has been redeveloped as luxury housing and dining. Click for a larger, sharper image
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Dry season
We parked the car behind the Northshore Unitarian Universalist Church in Danvers earlier today and took a stroll along the Rail Trail and the Swamp Walk. Even after the recent rain, I have never seen...
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The rocks of Topsfield
The Rockery, part of the Audubon’s Ipswich River Wildlife Sanctuary. We stomped around earlier today — I hadn’t been there in years, and for some reason Barbara had never been.
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Biking with the AMC
Twenty-three-mile ride along the Charles out to Waltham and back. On the way home, I ran into about two dozen bikers from the Appalachian Mountain Club. I’m a member, so I’m going to have to check out...
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Summer in November
A walk around the Middle and South Reservoirs in the Middlesex Fells on a summer-like afternoon.
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Drumlin Farm
We visited Drumlin Farm in Lincoln for the first time earlier today. The weather was warm and clear — so clear that we could easily see Mount Monadnock from the top of the drumlin from which the farm...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
May your day be spent with family, friends and appreciation for all the good things in our lives. North Reservoir, Middlesex Fells
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The sun sets on 2022
We’ve had quite the sunsets this week. I just got back from a hike in the Middlesex Fells and took this at the South Reservoir.
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A snowy walk through Medford
A four-mile-plus stroll through Medford in the first measurable snow of the year. Brooks Estate in West Medford, near the Winchester line Brooks Pond Victory Park off Winthrop Street, near Temple...
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Warm day, icy swamp
I hiked nearly six miles in Willowdale State Forest this afternoon — the first time I’ve been there since last May. Even though we had just one day of frigid weather followed by a week of unseasonably...
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Venus and Jupiter
Overhead in West Medford at 6:30 p.m. — the most striking conjunction of Venus and Jupiter that we’ll see until 2039.
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Cold spring day
Willowdale State Forest in Ipswich earlier today. I don’t care that the temperature was in the 40s — it was cold out there.
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Not Art
A few years ago I noticed a “Not Art” stencil for the first time, on a concrete barrier alongside the Mystic Path, which runs along the eastern shore of the Mystic Lakes. Over the winter I took...
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Dam work complete in the Middlesex Fells
First time in the Middlesex Fells in a few months, and I was happy to see that the restoration of the North Reservoir dam is finally complete. The road has been reopened and the water level has been...
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Before the deluge
Nearly 18 miles along the Somerville Community Path, the Charles and the Minuteman. I got caught in a wicked downpour about two-thirds of the way through. No surprise — the clouds looked pretty...
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