(Nothing But) Flowers

Can I say how much we love our new neighborhood an how lucky we were to end up where we are? Bostonians are known for being gruff & unfriendly and “too busy” to hang out. We’ve had the exact opposite experience in our neighborhood– its really nice! Since meeting folks at the labor day picnic we’ve easily gotten to know more folks throughout the neighborhood.

The trees are changing color (at their peak right now) and its gorgeous out, especially around Jamaica Pond. One of my favorite sightings on my runs near the pond has been the Albino squirrel that lives along the path that lines its perimeter. Check out this link for another picture of the cute, little pigmentless guy.

Tonight is the Lantern parade around the pond– every fall hundreds (thousands?) of folks walk around the perimeter of the pond at dusk with hand-made candle lanterns–should be fun! Hope to post our own pics later of that event later.

I do think some of the stereotypes about Bostonians hold (yikes- those aggressive drivers!) and many folks are workaholics, but there are pockets of people and places that aren’t like that– which was one of the things that attracted us to J.P in the first place.

Friday night we had a bunch of people over for a pumpkin carving party (I think some folks in CH may who we got this idea from?). We made up a batch of veggie chili & some cornbread . . yum! See a photos of our handiwork above and below.

The city-scape pumpkin were carved by our friend & neighbor Beth– and they represent J.P. The bottom photo includes the public library (complete with dropbox and Tom and I as the two folks in the upper window). The building on the far right is an abortion clinic with a 35 foot no-protest perimeter around it– MA just passed a law restricting abortion protesters from getting closer than 35 feet from a clinic. All this (including local churches & YMCA) were carved in by Beth with en exacto knife– the story & images evolved through the night .