My favorite Lake

Backbay Wildlife Refuge

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Exterior view of entrance to the Park Square Building on St. James Street in Boston's Back Bay.

by Belle

Acrylic and Paper Collage on Deep Canvas

Ice patterns on a pond

Park Square Building in Boston's Back Bay.

A New Years sunset at Back Bay NWR

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I keep reminding myself that this was once a block of solid marble that some dudes whacked at with hammers until it looked like a female figure. Okay, fine, the process was more complicated than that, sure.

But I'm always amazed by the precise, smooth contours and the fine detail of these figures. I understand rendering soft clay and then pouring liquid metal into a mold. But this? Wow.

A favorite monument on the Commonwealth Mall, mostly because it's so random.

Back Bay from Prudential Building

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Digitized with Negative Lab Pro v2.1.2

by Belle

Acrylic and Canvas Collage on Deep Canvas.

Tarpon Bay, Sanibel Island, Florida USA

Boston, Mass.

St. Botolph Street.

Boston Back Bay skyline on July 4. People wait on river banks and in their private boats on the Charles river for the fireworks.

This panaroma was stitched with Hugin using three overlapping shots.

Gloucester St., Boston, Ma. 11/13/15

Tarpon Bay, Sanibel Island, Florida USA

Back Bay alley brick wall

Taken in 2016.

(The "2015" date is wrong.)

Nineteenth-century facades on Dartmouth Street in the Back Bay.

Since the Peace Corps does not look like it is going to start up any time soon, my oldest decided to get his master's in sustainable agriculture and availability of food. In the span of about six months, he's moved from western Kansas to Nepal to Boston. He's rented a studio on the top floor of an 1860s rowhouse where he has a great view from his fire escape. Life in the time of Covid-19. The Back Bay is a National Register of Historic Places district #73001948.

Backbay Wildlife refuge

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Walking on the west dike road

Spring is in the air

A shot from Newbury Street.

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The elms on Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay. They are survivors of the Dutch elm disease infestation of the 1960s.

10u Tournament in Irvine

You'd think a city like Boston could have better train stations.

Newbury Street in the Back Bay.

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