This is what greeted me in the gallery park yesterday morning.
It was cold over night. I don’t know for sure how cold, but Neal reported that running this morning was quite brisk.
It was 33 degrees (just over thawing) on the walk to work just before 11 a.m. and when I rounded the corner in front of the gallery and entered the park, I saw icicles hanging off the fountain. My first thought was that it’s now time to turn off the fountain and drain it.
The second thought was that I needed to get some pictures. I’m glad I did, too, because this big icicle fell off while I was still photographing the thin skiff of ice floating in the fountain basin.
The high for the day was 36 at nearly 5 p.m., so the ice in the water never did completely thaw.
It seems appropriate, therefore, to let everyone know that Newton Municipal Spaceport is now open for Christmas traffic.
This home in one of our many residential districts has become something of a local tradition that began nearly ten years ago when a grandfather started putting out lights for the grandkids’ enjoyment. Some new item is added each year.
I was first introduced to this celebration of light in December 2001 on my first visit to Newton. Being a lover of Christmas lights myself, I was awed and overwhelmed by this display.
In the years since, it has continued to expand and now includes several nearly life-size wood cutouts of cartoon and comic book characters, a Christmas train, rooftop decorations and, this year, a working ferris wheel filled with holiday theme riders. When we stopped to take this photograph and I rolled down the window, I could even hear Christmas music!
Other houses in the neighborhood will soon be decorating, too, but this one always seems to be the first.
And the biggest!
It’s fun to walk past or drive past slowly and it’s absolutely gorgeous on those rare occasions when snow drifts lightly out of the sky. Even so, I do wonder what it looks like from space….
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