A Day in the Life

After waking up in the Elkmont Campground at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Amy told me to go check out the light coming through the trees. It was nice of her to notice the perfect example of why the park has the name that it does. As I fumbled around with the controls of the [...]

I had been planning on taking this picture of Interstate 290 from below for quite some time, but I kept getting sidetracked. I’m glad I did, because when I arrived for this photo, a large group of people were swimming and diving off the pillars. I was very surprised, because I have never thought of [...]

Read up on the closure of the Paris Cinema. What is particularly interesting about this is the image problem that it presents (presented?) for Worcester, since it is located across the street from Worcester Common. It’s difficult to convey the wholesomeness of Main Street, America when little Billy asks why you can’t take him to [...]

The relatively ornate bus stop shelters which line the common (which serves as the central hub of most of the bus routes in Worcester) and Main Street add a bit of form to what could have been simply function. One of these days I plan on riding a Worcester bus just to say I’ve done [...]

From the Worcester Public Works and Parks website:
The moving force behind the Bigelow Memorial was Timothy Bigelow Lawrence whose great grandfather is buried at the site. In the foundation is a time capsule of mementos from the life and Revolutionary times of Patriotic Colonel Timothy Bigelow.
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The highly stylized Gothic spire is carved of [...]

This restored market building now houses the Massachusetts Environmental Protection Agency’s Central Region offices. No bull.

Prize time: A 5×7 inch print from the fine arts gallery or from selected images from “A Day in the Life” to the first person to leave a comment with the correct answer. What is written in large letters in the middle of the shuffleboard court?

One of the hiking trails at the 50+ acre Hadwen Park.

The Wachusett Dam in Clinton holds back the Wachusett Reservoir. It’s dam beautiful.

It would be hard to have too many ice cream parlors in any given neighborhood, even if there were too many. But at least in the Greendale neighborhood, there weren’t any ice cream parlors until now. Super Scoops opened last week at the corner of Burncoat Street and Quinipoxet Lane, and judging by the number [...]