The picture-posting service I have been using for years (mywebpage.netscape.com) has now become so unreliable that it didn't let me in for days, and when it did it took me like a half hour to post these fives pictures. Boo! Word to the wise, go to photobucket.com/ It's still free, but it took just seconds to load these up.
This is what the ground looked like almost everywhere. Apparently they had gotten a ton of snow right before we got there, but by the time we were there it was all in people's yards or plowed into nasty, dirty piles on the sidewalk, so we didn't get to play in any. Though I did trudge through a bunch just because I love the crunchy sound it makes.
This is how we dressed every single day to go out. What you can't see is under my coat is a t-shirt, a thermal undershirt, a sweater, and two scarves and then under the jeans is a pair of thermal pants, sweatpants and two pairs of socks. Meg followed pretty much the same list. The weather hovered from the teens to the twenties for the most part, but it got down to -1 F with the windchill one day. We were still snug as bugs in a rug... well, except for our eyes, they got REALLY cold, and that hurts. And a special shout out to Noel for recommending we get the big, thick-furry-ass boots that you see. Without them our toes would have fallen off.
One of my favorite photographers is a man named Lee Friedlander. He's most famous for his portraits of his shadow and/or reflections in windows and whatnot. Check out the link.
This is a statue of Harvard founder, John Harvard. Legend says that if you touch his shoe you will be blessed with good luck. Note the distinct lack of tarnish on that shoe from all the believers touching it. I must admit, I touched it too.
This has to be the strangest thing I have ever seen while on vacation. Down the block from Meg's mom's house was this microwave just chilling on the sidewalk like it belonged there. It wasn't trash day, and it wasn't even in front of a house. Things like this always make my imagination run wild with ideas of how or why it got there. I'm sure it was just as mundane as it broke, so some guy just threw it on the curb rather than dispose of it properly, but still...
More tomorrow.
COMMENTS
As a Minnesotan, I have point out that you guys are sissies . -1 F is shorts and t-shirt weather, dag nub it!
Josh 02.24.06 - 4:08 pm
Did you bring back that microwave... because I could use a new one.
therealdavid 02.24.06 - 7:30 pm
If you include windchill I have been in -40 F myself so I knows me some cold, and you're a silly man. Shorts and t-shirts? Come on.
I will admit that the first day it was in the low 50's for the afternoon and I was walking around in just a polo and jeans. I secretly laughed at all the Bostonians walking around in their coats while I carried mine.
Joey 02.24.06 - 10:55 pm
OK I totally sympathize with the hassle of wearing more layers than you ever thought humanly possible... Paris gets really COLD... i don't know what i would do without my long underwear(Yes I admit I am the loserface that wears long underwear like all the time!) Freaking Arizona spoils you with beautiful weather! You don't understand unless you lived there... You mean I can't wear flip flops and tank tops all year long? what is this world coming too?
Summer 02.28.06 - 7:35 pm
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