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The day following the art museum, we visited Harvard University. Arriving at Cambridge, we walked around the town until time to meet family.

Harvard Side Street

These bike racks were full when we arrived, eagerly waiting for daily rentals!

Harvard Bike Rack

We meandered through the campus and paid a visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. The museum included an exhibit of glass flowers. This exhibit included over 800 glass models of various flowers. These highly detailed models were crafted by a father and son team over a period of 50 years in Germany. These were displayed under glass cabinets with difficult lighting, so I did not have any images. This museum is well worth visiting. Later we also visited the Semitic Museum, where some Egyptian and Mesopotamian artifacts were being exhibited.

After visiting the museums, we made our way through Harvard Yard. Here there is a statue of John Harvard, who founded the university. This statue gathered the attention of several visitors, mainly because of the brass shoe tip that looks like gold. Apparently there is an Asian custom that touching gold helps women falling pregnant! That might explain why this lady is touching the statue’s shoe while onlookers are making photographs. That did not explain why some men also performed the same!

John Harvard Statue

At the southern end of the yard, I stopped to make an image of the colorful chairs, before leaving the campus.

Colorful Chairs In Harvard Yard

We left Salem and moved to Boston. After meeting Wojtek and Kerril, we started along The Freedom Trail. During the course of the next few days we caught up events over the last 5 years. The trail starts at Boston Common, making its way past various sites that trace historic events leading up to the Revolutionary War. The Old South Meeting House was one location where historic meetings were held.

Clock, Old South Meeting House

We made our way to the Old State House. It was outside this building that the Boston Massacre took place. I was intrigued by the semi-circular stair case that is located in the center of the building. This was added many years after the end of the Revolutionary War.

Stairs, Old State House

After lunch, we continued with the trail, making our way to Paul Revere’s House. This is a museum that contains some of the period furniture and artifacts from Paul Revere’s time.

Paul Revere House

The following day, we met at the Museum of Fine Arts. There were some interesting works. The following work, is consists of foot-shaped paper, cut from phone directories, stacked several feet high. This work traces footsteps walking along the floor.

Vertical Walk Sculpture, Museum Of Fine Arts

One unmistakeable work is a Chihuly glass sculpture (green icicle tower) that stands some 40 feet in height. There are over 2000 blown glass leaves that comprise this piece.

Chihuly Sculpture

While admiring the sculpture from the third floor, I made this image of a museum visitor.

Chihuly, With Visitor

On the morning we visited, there were crowds of schoolkids visiting the museum. I could not resist making this image of a group of kids with their yellow tee-shirts.

Schoolkids In The Museum

We made a second day trip from Salem, heading south to Providence, Rhode Island. Soon after arriving, we got routed through some traffic diversions. A marathon run was taking place, with the leaders arriving in the city center when we arrived. We found parking close to Brown University. While walking to the university, I was intrigued by these stairs. The lines of the stairs were repeated by the siding of the house.

Stairs And Steps, Providence

We took a walk through Brown University. This is one of the eight Ivy League universities. All but one we formed during the colonial era in the US.

Brown University, Providence

Walking down the the city center, I found this ring that forms part of a sculpture. Since it was midday, I carefully composed the image to exclude the sun and bright parts of the sky.

Ring, Providence

Along the Providence River, many bystanders were watching and encouraging runners in the marathon.

Watching Marathon Runners, Providence

During the afternoon we headed south out of Providence, where we stopped at Bristol. While exploring the town, I was drawn to the peeling paint on this door.

Painted Door, Bristol

It was spring time, so many of the trees were covered in blossoms. The azaleas were also flowering.

Azaleas, Bristol

Bristol is a coastal town that used to have many industrial and manufacturing plants. Here is the building use to be plant for Robin Rug Inc.

Robin Rug Inc, Bristol

Of course we passed by the marina. Angela pointed out one dingy that was partially submerged below water. However, I found this one, that was almost completely sunk!

Sunk, Bristol

While staying in Salem, we made a day trip to the Plum Island National Wildlife Refuge at Plum Island and later visited the town of Newburyport. Close to the harbor we passed this brick lighthouse. This is located next to the main street through the town. This is one of many “lighthouses” in the area. Don’t know if it is authentic, since it appears to be a long way from the shore. But it does have an interesting design.

Brick Lighthouse, Newburyport

I got closer to the lighthouse tower angling the camera upwards, so I could cut out the clutter of all those power lines.

Lighthouse Flags

Close to the marina is an antique store. Outside are these colorful floats that were used to identify lobster pots belonging to different fishermen in years gone by. Nowadays, plastics buoys appear to serve the same purpose.

Fisherman’s Lobster Floats

The wall of the antique store was adorned with this smiling face.

Antique Store Face, Newburyport

Garfield, with his big cheesy smile, also adorned the wall.

Antique Store Garfield

Nearby, I found this mooring bollard planted in the lawn. This is no longer used, but serves as a reminder of the bigger boats that used the harbor.

Mooring Bollard

We walked along the marina. However, it was too early in the season to find boats moored along the quays.

Empty Marina, Newburyport

Finally we walked through the town, looking for a coffee shop. Along the street was this interesting store, just for dogs.

Just Dogs

This month we made a trip to Massachusetts, where we were to meet family in Boston. For the first three days we stayed in Salem. Soon after arriving in Salem, we made a trip to Salem Commons, where we walked down to the ocean. It was low tide in the late afternoon.

Low Tide, Salem Commons

Walking among the streets, we reached the rocks along the shoreline where we encountered these homes with an ocean view. Many folks were busy in their yards, preparing for the summer.

Homes With An Ocean View, Salem Commons

As the sun setting, we headed back to the pavilion. The low sun was casting long shadows at the pavilion. I waited for these two children to come running over to play.

Children At Play, Salem Commons Pavilion

Looking out across the river estuary, I made this image of the setting sun.

Sunset Over Estuary, Salem

Later during the trip, we returned to Salem Commons, where I found kelp growing among the rock pools.

Kelp At Low Tide, Salem

No visit to Salem is complete without making a visit to the Salem Witch Museum. The story surrounding the hanging of the witches in 1692 was retold here.

Salem Witch Museum

Finally we stopped at the National Park Association. I made this image looking up at the skylight at the entrance as we were leaving.

National Park Association Skylight, Salem

Saturday night was the monthly Illuminate Workshops night shoot. This month we met at the Denver Art Museum. After meeting fellow photogs, we proceeded to make images around the museum.

Dustpan And Brush, Denver Art Museum

More images may be found on the Meetup website here. Across the road is the Denver Public Library. In one of the windows was this huge orange paper flower.

Orange Paper Flower

The library building has some interesting angular and curved walls, contructed with a variety of build materials.

Denver Public Library, At Night

Looking back towards the art museum, I spotted the steel tent poking above the roof line.

Steel Tent, Denver Art Museum

We made our way to Civic Center Park and past the State Capitol building. Stopping near the Supreme Court building, I found these shadows that were cast from the buried lighting.

Shadows, Supreme Court

Near the end of the photo walk, the Supreme Court building was reflection from an adjacent building. This created some interesting reflections.

Building Reflections

First Friday was Art Walk along Sante Fe. This month there were a lot of new exhibits and new artists showing their art. Really inspiring. Here are some images that I made during the evening. I found one gallery that had these cool Lumin lamps. This one cycled through various colors. I waited for red to make its appearance.

Lumin Lamp, In Red

There were some interesting exhibits in this gallery. Lumin lamps are made from a heavyweight paper with folds alone scored lines. This yellow one shows have the folds give the Lumin’s their unique shape.

Lumin Paper Folds

One of my favorite galleries has steel ceilings. Here the lanterns are reflected in the ceiling.

Lanterns And Reflections In The Ceiling

I found the mannequin in the antique store’s window.

Mannequin In The Window

Enjoy.