Weekend in Massachusetts

Sunday evening we returned home a bit too late for me to have the energy to write an entry.  My apologies.

It was a wonderful weekend spent with friends in Massachusetts.  We did things like wander through and buy our lunch in the Armenian section, explore a "hidden" pocket park across the harbor from downtown Boston where we ate our lunch, go to Fenway for a Triple-A baseball game (Buffalo Bisons vs Pawtucket Red Sox) that the Bisons won, have dinner with more friends, enjoy a leisurely Sunday brunch, visit the Clark Museum, and attend a mind-numbing lecture on the importance of a recent discovery in China.  The latter was the only glitch in the weekend, but since of the four of us in the car three were teachers and one an administrator (all retired), we had a good time discussing how the lecture could have been improved and in doing so, discovered that we knew and had learned more than we thought.

I do have a few photos to share.  The above is the view from the deck outside the kitchen of the Massachusetts friends' home.  I love watching the fog lift, and if I'd managed to get up earlier, the colors would have been even better (or so I was told by another righteous guest!).

You can tell that our weather was none too wonderful, but I think it makes this view of Boston harbor even better.  Barge, police boat, and Boston fisherman - oh, and that sailboat near the barge - all against the city in the background.  Love it.

And while this has nothing to do with Boston, I wanted to share this burst of color from Mary Ellen.  She dropped this off to brighten my post-surgery last Wednesday, and don't these colors make your heart lift?  What is even more lovely is that this photo was taken this morning!  These blooms greeted us in all their splendor when we returned home yesterday.

Makes the gray of the weekend, while lovely in its own way, clearly a "neutral" color.  There's nothing neutral about these blossoms!