Hello, Boston, on a stunning Sunday in spring! This is take from a Charles River bridge looking back at Beacon Hill. State capitol building is the gold dome to left of center.
My Finnish cousin, Antti, the one who works for the EU in Brussels, has two daughters. Fanny, the younger, is spending three months at Harvard as part of her PhD work in Social Epidemiology at the University of Helsinki.
We met her for the day and, at her request, just walked through Cambridge and downtown Boston.
We all enjoyed the Frank Gehry-Designed multi-use center at MIT.
And we loved spending our day with this smart, interesting, beautiful member of the family.
Parkour
EVERYONE was outside on this beautiful day on the river.
Coffee break
In front of the Boston Public Library
Love the juxtaposition of the historic Trinity Church against the John Hancock skyscraper.
Fanny and I toured inside the church in the late afternoon when the sun hit perfectly on all the gold leaf behind the altar. I love this photo of golden-haired Fanny in the middle of it all.
Allen taking his afternoon nap outside.
On to Boston Commons
Delighted to find this brass display dedicated to Robert McClosky and his "Make Way for Ducklings," a favorite book of mine as a child. The story has a duck family living on an island in the Commons lake. I believe the Easter hats on the ducklings were left over from Easter the previous Sunday.
We ended the day at Harvard Yard for dinner, made us think of Click and Clack, of course.
We meandered home from Boston along the coast (allergic to I-95), taking most of another beautiful day to do so. Stopped for a hot dog at this little stand in Seabrook, New Hampshire, had great conversations with the local game warden and the dog seller....Allen in his element.
Turning around and looking the other way - the Seabrook nuclear power station. The warden gave us the scoop on its construction, how it was originally to be four reactors, but time and cost overruns reduced that to one.
Most of the coast is still closed for the season, but almost everyone had signs declaring when they would be opening.
Someone's summer "cottage," I suppose.
At Portsmouth, NH, there's a huge active naval shipyard and this now-unused naval prison.
Lots of coastal Maine looks like this.
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