Here is a video I shot in Trafalgar Square three years ago… still relevant as well as my photos of revelers in Lowell yesterday where the streets were a sea of green. I spotted a few kilts could be spotted among the leprechauns, and the festivities were definitely on. Some people arrived in a stretch limo, [...]
There’s actually ice chunks on the canal out my window in Lowell, and evidently at Mine Falls Park in Nashua, Winter has come. Here are frozen patterns etched on the ice and some scenic reminders of the season I wasn’t sure had arrived.
This most photogenic city transforms by the hour, and the ice picks up the warm colors of the reflected buildings as the light fades into night.
The 60 degree temperature brought out the beach walkers in Swampscott, MA and some interesting designs… not all of the 2012 fit in my photo… I would have had to have shot it from an airplane, it was that big.
The season has started with high school and college bands setting the pace in Lowell’s City of Lights Parade, an early evening delight, brightening the streets with it’s colorful lights.
Portland, the City of Bridges, is a bustling and beautiful place with plenty of bike paths. It is also near Columbia River Gorge and its breath-taking water falls.
On a recent road trip we enjoyed many waterfalls from Lake Placid to Niagara Falls, to Ithaca. As a New Englander who enjoys lots of great scenery, I was amazed at gorgeous and vast upstate New York.
Lowell, the city of contrasts, with it’s canals and falls, lovely parks and and a vibrant community of artists, students, professionals, immigrants, and more, all sharing the space of a community struggling to evolve. On my daily walks, I’m constantly presented with an opportunity to show its liveliness in its people, textures, building everywhere, and [...]
I love the North End…always like a quick trip to Europe. Yesterday we happened upon the Fisherman’s Feast, where the enthroned Madonna was blessed, festooned with dollar bills and dumped with confetti from apartment windows, all to a brass band and an explosion of firecrackers. According to http://www.fishermansfeast.com, “the Fisherman’s Feast is an annual event [...]
The spirit and spunk and fabulous costumes of Dynasty Productions captured the joy and exuberance of Mardi Gras and the Lowell Folk Festival. The city is alive with a string of parties, only rivaled by Bourbon Street at Mardi Gras…. and that’s not even the main events, colorful as this parade.
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