More walking-to-work photos

Looking out the window at work. I work on the fourth floor in a library at Harvard Medical School. The red trees below this window get more amazing every day, although it was really windy today, so those leaves' days are numbered. Also in this shot are the T (subway) tracks. The lines are mostly underground, but some are along the street.

On one side of this photo (below) is a street, and on the other side is a piece of the Muddy River, which in turn is part of the Emerald Necklace. Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. He designed Central Park and the Emerald Necklace in the 1800s, along with lots of other parks. I get to walk through this part of the Emerald Necklace on my way to and from work every day. It was designed to be a series of linked parks in Boston, but as the city has grown, it's gotten more and more segmented. There are plans to reconnect the parks and they recently added a new piece.

Okay, I just have to share this (below). I was so tickled at the scene, and so happy I grabbed my camera in time. Neon orange spike heel pumps are, in themselves, something of note. In the rain? Definitely daring. But neon orange high heeled shoes in the rain on a bike?!? Yes, it's true. I didn't get a photo of it, but I saw this young woman pedalling down the sidewalk, orange heels on the pedals, and holding an umbrella over her head. I'm certain she could make money doing that.

This is one of the marvelous trees that now is nearly completely leafless (so that's what they mean by "fall"). A friend of mine took this photo of me and the tree after we voted. What a glorious day that was.