Georges Island

[siercia]

Wiley, Kate, Widget and I took Monday as a recovery day from our trip to New York, a chance to enjoy Kate's unexpected visit to Boston and to relax from the stress of the trip and the funeral.

We took the ferry from Quincy out to Georges Island in the harbor. It is absolutely one of my favorite places in Boston. Gave the new camera a workout, and took a bunch of pictures.


These just fascinate me. I love the art of the decorative work on the chimneys, enhancing their form without lessening their function. I think that lack of small decorative touches is one of my great disappointments with modern architecture.


Widget loves climbing trees. These trees near one of the picnic areas was excellent for climbing.


A view of Boston Light from the island


A view of the wind fan on the tip of Hull. I always forget how close Hull is to the island. I know a lot of people consider these fans to be eyesores, but I think that they are beautiful and elegant.

After the island, we hit Tony's for some seafood - something always in short supply in Roswell.

If you want to see the rest of the pictures, you can find the whole lot of them here. Oh, and for credit where it's due, Wiley took some of these photos.

Comments

[bossieboots.livejournal.com]

Look at those long limbs on that pretty girl! She must be getting so tall!

[siercia]

Dude. The girl comes up to my boobs already. She is crazy tall.

[angharadsol.livejournal.com]

Looks like a great shakedown cruise (!) for the camera :) Seems like a beautiful day for exploring too.

Also, Widget is the most lovely photographic child - in every picture she looks totally adorable :)

[siercia]

It was an excellent fun day. It's fun trailing behind Widget, watching her discover all the neat nifty place we've found out there before. I love introducing her to new stuff.

And thank you =)

[jadefu.livejournal.com]

She is wicked cute. Obviously loves showing off for the camera, too. :)

But I agree with you about the wind fan. Plus I'd rather see those covering a landscape than a big smokestack from a dirty powerplant.

[siercia]

She does. SO much so that it's often hard to get a picture of her looking "normal"

Exactly! From a distance, they blend into the landscape. They move with the wind, and they look more like sculptures to me than anything else.

[technoluddite.livejournal.com]

Wind turbines are cool.

I had never considered them as sculpture, but their clean lines and simple movement is aesthetically pleasing. Much better than most of the crap that passes for art these days. And large arrays of them, spinning in unison makes quite a visual statement.

Wind turbines as energy-generating art. Love it.

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

So pretty! We're thinking about going out that way this weekend!

[siercia]

It is so beautiful out there, and it's almost always cooler than on the mainland, too. Like I said, one of my favorite spots in Boston.

[sydneygb.livejournal.com]

I love the picture of Boston Light. It's so beautiful.

[siercia]

Thank you!

[kristenlou.livejournal.com]

Yay!!!

Looks like a terrific day was had by all. I have some very similar photos from when we were there a few weeks ago. That daughter of yours is adorable.

[siercia]

It was a great day.

And thank you! (Your's is too - I loved the pictures of her with the sand castles.)

[hoo.livejournal.com]

I like the windmills on Hull! I took my mum out there just to see them (okay, also to buy a glider off of craigslist.)

She liked Hull so much she was browsing realty there for a while.

[siercia]

It really is pretty. I'd not want to live there while I had to commute every day, since it's so far from the highways and T, but I could certainly see living out there when I retired, if I stayed Boston-ish.

[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

I think that lack of small decorative touches is one of my great disappointments with modern architecture.

Preach it!

I'm actually thinking of doing a book of decorative brickwork, stonework and cast stone work 1865-1935. There's just so much you can do to enliven and add interest to a brick wall.

[siercia]

There certainly are!

And that would be a neat book. I'd read it.