We took a trip to Massachusetts. Here are some photos.
The ducks and geese at Hager Pond in Marlborough. They have been here for as long as I can remember:
Webster Lake in Webster, MA. The real name is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. The “shortened” name is Lake Chaubunagungamaug, which manageable but ridiculous for normal English-speaking mortals:
Another photo of the name. The tree branch on the right-hand side covered up part of the word as you drive in. It would’ve been a good photo from the side of the road if it weren’t for that:
Memorial Beach is on Lake Webster. It’s a wonderful place; I remember going there a few times over the years when I was younger, for camp. We got there in the late afternoon and I didn’t want to pay $30 to park for only a few hours (at most) of beach time.
Here’s two shots of the Charles River from the Boston Museum of Science, facing southwest. The shiny building in the center of the second and third photos is the John Hancock Tower (here’s a video of it from last year):
Here’s facing the opposite direction, northeast, over the Charles River Damn Road and the Craigie Drawbridge in the foreground. The upside “Y” shapes you see in the back are the towers of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge. It’s hard to see them unless you open the photo, but there are notable suspension cables connecting the towers to the bridge’s deck. The ugly building with the admittedly cool-looking jagged chasm down the middle is the Education First building:
Not the real sky, but the planetarium in the Museum before the show started:
The Atlantic Ocean at Hampton Beach. I didn’t mean to get the people in the photo, as you can see it was bright as all get out and it was hard to see my phone screen (this is called a situational impairment in the UX and accessibility world):
A bird standing on a car at Hampton Beach:
404 building found (heh):
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The number of years a city has been standing, followed by the depth of the tax base, have a massive effect on what gets built. Older, richer cities like this will have lots of fascinating stuff. Places like OKC where I live have far less, and what they do have tends to be simpler or all very recent. Along the coast of MA, I’d be lost for weeks just looking at all the stuff.
That’s one thing I noticed when I moved out of state, and out of New England in general. MA is very developed, especially the central and eastern areas. The western part tends to be more open and rural, but the human presence here in general is old and dense.
It’s about time somebody found 404. You’ve done the human race a genuine service here. Bravo!
Thank you. I kinda wanted the photo to turn out to have no building there, just the hovering numbers…like a vampire. You can’t take a vampire’s photo, right? Or is that just a mirror thing?