Sunday, September 16, 2012

East Coast Tour: Boston


Months old, but such a great trip that I still want to post...

At the end of July my mom came to stay at the Conway Castle (Castillo). After a week's visit in Bowling Green--mostly walking in the nature preserve and reading in cafés as far flung as Ann Arbor-- my mom headed back to D.C., with me in tow.  We spent a long evening dining in Du Point Circle and then, back at her condo, reading some more.

I have a very kind mother who agreed to drive me to Union Station at 5 the following morning  From there I took the train to meet up with my friend Annetta in Boston. I later went to Connecticut to visit Jessie, but no photos of that experience exist, except for two taken on Jessie's cell phone of her and I next to our favorite vehicles at an old car show in Woodbury. Alas, the photo of me and the green, '50's Ford pickup is locked in a text message and I don't know how to extract it.What follows are some photo highlights from my trip to Boston, including work by some of my favorite street (now also gallery) artists, the Brazilian twins Os Gemeos.

Annetta contemplating our chocolate mousse cake at the North End Italian cafe where we also watched some Olympics


Boston Public Library
Crouching by the Lady of Art

At Revere Beach

At Saloon, an unmarked speakeasy-style whiskey bar below the streets of Davis Square

Os Gemeos' public art piece

Os Gemeos' piece at the ICA exhibit

Too shy to photograph their faces, my terrible photo of the the twins when I stumbled upon them in the streets of Boston

Swoon's piece in the ICA lobby

Detail from Swoon's piece

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