On my very last day on the East Coast in May (you thought I would never get to the end of this journey, huh?), my plane left in the afternoon so we had the morning to explore. We walked from our downtown Boston hotel to a bakery and one of us spotted a travel trailer on top of one of the high buildings in the city. Is that for the CEO when she’s worked too late and doesn’t want to make the trip home?
We looked for a store called The Fairy Shop, because I love fairies. It’s in a lovely part of town and is a beautiful place, but should be named the Harry Potter Shop. Apparently it used to have fairies and gnomes and frogs and crystals and what one might expect with a name like that. But today, there is only Harry Potter merchandise. Luckily, I am a huge Harry Potter fan.
Next we went to Graffiti Alley in Cambridge. I am always a fan of wall art, and fascinated with the whimsy and political statements and sometimes jaw-dropping beauty I find on walls. This alley is right off Massachusetts Avenue, painted on all sides. It had been raining all morning and I appreciated the colourful awning.
We wandered all the way through and found more art in the parking lot behind the alley.
We still had some time to kill so we made one last stop at Castle Island. It’s really only a peninsula, despite the name. Because it was windy and raining, we had the place to ourselves. Even though it was the site of another old military fort, and built way back in 1634, and you know I love that stuff… my heart wasn’t in it. The weather was rotten and after two long weeks I really just wanted to go home.
Will dropped me off at the airport. It was a direct flight back to Portland, and six hours later I was greeted by my favourite volcano.
Whew! I finished that whole action-packed trip. Can you believe how much stuff we did? It was fun almost every single day and I got to see so many friends and especially got to know Will better. I might have to make a New England trip with Will an annual event or something.
In the meantime things have been happening here at Dragon Manor, and I have so many things to tell you about my summer so far. I have lots of photos of my daily delights around the place. I’ll post them because it makes me happy. I hope you like some of them too.
Conscious Engagement 
Wall art. Always a fav of mine. Crystal! And I laughed about the cars. I had the same thoughts about cars blocking a view of wall art I wanted to photograph in Reno on my recent trip! 🙂 How insensitive of the city to put parking meters there. (Laughing) As for the 1635 fort, my Puritan relatives would have climbed off the ship in Boston five year before it was built. –Curt
Have you spent time exploring family history in Boston? It rings a bell and I think that you have.
My direct ancestors didn’t spend a great deal of time there, Crystal.By 1650 they had moved on to Windsor, Connecticut. Lots of family history there. –Curt
And your photographic art has made them available to us – so well worth bigifying
Bigifying. I love it! ❤ Thank you
That was coined by Pauline, thecontentedcrafter.
Omigosh, of course it came from Pauline. I love her so much. ❤
This was some trip indeed! 🙂 I’m glad you got to do it and managed to capture it for us on your blog. To many more!
To many more!