“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught,
a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”
Henry David Thoreau
Wonderous things are all around us if we only keep our eyes open.
On October 24, as the Red Sox were about to play the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series, an incredible full rainbow stretched across the eastern sky, illuminated by the setting sun, linking together Boston University buildings. And the Red Sox won the game!
During a late autumn walk through the Hammond Woods in Newton, I observed an amazing hanging rock. This puddingstone rock is 2 ½ to 3 feet on a side, and probably weighs around 3,000 pounds. The rock has been suspended between these two rock faces for at least 12,000 years, but this was the first time I had noticed it in many decades of walks through the woods.
The lives of Boston residents were enriched this year by Fog X Flo installations throughout the Emerald Necklace. At set times, spray nozzles generated large fog banks, creating unique visual and atmospheric effects as they drifted across the landscape.
Let’s resolve to be more awake to the world around us in 2019!
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