I think that the pictures are going to suggest a different journal title—something along the lines of ‘Sarah visits Old San Juan!’ Heh. But I happily revisited Old San Juan again, too … I just happen to be the person snapping away on the camera and handy I-phone throughout the day. A leisurely start at [...]
Oh, Puerto Rico. It’s only been a year since I was last able to visit, and that already seems too long. It’s easy to tell why expatriates of all kinds, but especially those luckier ones from island climates and cultures, always think of home. Very lucky to be spending the April break back in Puerto [...]
It’s one of the best things about traveling– there continues to be the sense that home and your daily life are further than you would expect. So a little less than twenty four hours after flying out from Boston, with connections in New York to Madrid and finally to Lisbon, it feels like a whole [...]
There’s nothing quite like going to a place off-season–with its streets and shops and ocean drives unnaturally empty. All the more reason to enjoy those spaces. Glad to be with you, Newport RI for a slow-paced, sleep-in weekend!
So we finally got a bit of snowfall today in the Boston area… with about 3-4 inches of accumulation over the course of the day. Really lovely to see the white stuff fall so fully and fat-ly through the morning into mid afternoon. And while it was good to make it out to the Saturday [...]
How nice to get out for an afternoon walk with only a light vest– in the middle of January. Mid 50s on a mid-January Saturday afternoon? You have to be kidding me. Refreshing to get a full dosage of fresh air though as we walked through many of the quiet paths in the Forest Hills [...]
After a moving memorial meeting for DB, I was fortunate to have the chance to head north a bit with Sarah for a stay near Crane beach and the Inn at Castle Hill, a jewel of the Trustees of Reservations. For many reasons, but most importantly in celebration of a birthday, it was a gift [...]
Not too often that you see a weather map that looks like this one does at this moment: Hunkered down, though, as are most of us are on the eastern seaboard here. Something else… if I have it right, in 2011 so far, in Massachusetts we’ll have either felt or seen 1) a blizzard, 2) [...]
It almost feels like a slight miracle, sitting out here on the 2nd floor back porch of the Carriage House room #4 at the Fairville Inn. It’s a quarter until eight on a Sunday morning, the cicadas are chirruping like nobody’s business and there’s a pretty view overlooking a manicured garden, with denser creeping vines [...]
Eating on the Porch Makes For A Good Meal
It’s a veritable rite of spring, and of temperate early evening weather, to have that first meal on the porch out back. It was a good way to end a particularly busy, social weekend (as Sarah put it), with a few dinner engagements, a baby shower, a visit to the church in Newton, and a [...]