Road trip, or In a hurry to see the city

Came down from Vermont (home) to Boston yesterday for a 3-day vaca with the 4 and 7 year-old. Much-anticipated trip, everyone eager to escape the snow and same four walls and indulge some big-city excitement (like science museums).

The 7-year-old started a travel diary in a little 1.5x3-inch notebook. His first entry, written in the backseat about a half-hour after departure from our home in northern Vermont:

Many trees beside highway. Still not out of Vermont.

and later, when there were actually a few breaks in the forest cover:

Many wide, grassy plains. Dense forest on right side.

and finally, once we're in Mass:

no snow at all! on either side!

We're going later to see the glass sea creatures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History. If I can get any good pics I'll post on it, and on my startling first experience with the glass flowers there a few years back.

Otherwise, posting may be light for a few days, as I put in a little overtime at home (away).

More like this

my fiddle, trying to get atop a Beethoven Trio __________________________________________________________________ The last month or so I've been pondering what to photograph, as I walk around town, to convey the disturbing wierdness of the weather we've had these last months in Vermont. I live…
Back when I was a kid, and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I spent about a week one summer staying with a great-aunt in Arlington, VA. I don't remember exactly when-- some time in the early 1980's-- and I don't remember where my parents and sister were at the time. I recall that they came down later…
As promised in the last catch-up post, a set of pictures less devoted to cute-kid shots. 213/366: Zone Defense The superhero-themed "zones" of our house, as defined by the Pip. The Pip has been making one of his preschool teachers draw superheroes for him. At some point, he cut these out with…
Female Snow Leopard twins born last year at the Bronx Zoo. When I initially started posting pictures on my blog, I didn't know if anyone would have anything to say about my pictures. I frequent zoos, museums, and aquariums, usually shooting between 200 and 600 shots per trip, the handful of good…