So lately I've been tossing the idea around in my head of what to do with seemingly dead public spaces in Lynn.
There's miles of abandoned rail, endless stretches of sidewalk, median strips, and plenty of acres of barely-used parks and other open spaces the city owns and subsequently the citizens own.
Why not better utilize these existing areas for the benefit of the citizens of Lynn?
I was thinking along the lines of placing small benches on some streets in convenient locales, outside of shops, restaurants, and bars. Planting small flower-beds along the tiny squares of dirt that show up ever so often along sidewalks. Building bike/pedestrian trails along abandoned rail lines and at the same time putting in urban gardens, fruit orchards, small gardens, wildlife-friendly landscaping along these same rails.
Now of course the current mind-set of most Lynners would be "not with my tax dollars you don't!" So it goes without saying that most of these projects would have to be funded privately and created by the neighborhoods in which they are located. Which I think is great. But it leaves one to wonder, what would Lynners spend their tax dollars on? Wider streets, more car lanes, more city workers? It saddens me to think that we as citizens, not just of Lynn but of America, have grown so lazy and content with the paternalism of the Government. We see trash on our very streets, the ones we live on, and think "the city will clean it up" We go to the beach and complain about parking and wonder why the city won't do something about it, but instead most people would stay home if they were recommended to take the bus or better yet, bicycle there.
So what do we do as citizens of our city for our city? I'll answer with what I do. I write my ideas and I read what others have to say. I read the local paper every day, the internet version because currently I am located in NH. In putting my ideas out there and reading what is going on and listening to what others in the city think I am slowly putting together ways to better the community. If my short term goals are fulfilled I'll be coming back to Lynn in the next three or so years with a degree in urban planning and development in the hopes of using it to get a job working at city hall to steer the city down a path to prosperity for all, not physical wealth mind you, although I hope that ends up as a side-effect of better planning and development for Lynn.
Ask not what Lynn can do for you but what you can do for Lynn.
If you see trash on your sidewalk, throw it out. If you're at home and bored and it's summer, go outside and sweep out the storm drain grill or something. Pick up those cigarette butts out front of your house that find their way into the grooves and cracks of the walkway. Buy some flowers and plant them in that empty, half-dirt, half-grass space on the sidewalk along the street.
To get back to the main topic, I am currently working out a few ideas for open public spaces in Lynn and will share them when I can flesh them out a bit. Sadly as it is mid-spring now some of them may not be possible anymore, but what do I know, I'm not a gardener. One of them I am very excited about is my plans for a flower garden at High Rock reservation. Ever drive up there and feel bored with the landscaping? I know I have. But I guess the view of the city and the tower are more the lure to this spot anyways. There's a bit of a grass knoll which you are meant to park along that I think would make the perfect starting point of this garden. In fact, if I can gain enough donations I think I will personally attempt to use my thumb and test its greenness in this project. I guess phase one in my plan for High Rock park would be to cover that entire grass knoll with flowers. I will consult with flower experts as I know nothing about them other than that they are beautiful, attract birds, and give off a pleasant scent. So who is with me?
Phase one, contact the city and explain this plan.
Phase two, if they agree get out the word and enlist people to help that actually know something about gardening , gather money donations for the purchase of flowers, let the neighborhood know.
Phase three, contact the Item and have them take a nice picture and tell the story and try to inspire others in the city to follow suit and make their neighborhoods more beautiful/user-friendly.
Now as I am not super optimistic about the city allowing us to dig up the park and throw flowers all over the place I am going to initially ask for just permission to use the grassy Knoll along the parkway first. If this proves successful and gains positive feedback from the neighbors I think every spring we can try and have the city let us add something new: New flowering/fruit/shade trees, benches, a rose bush border along some of the rock formations, etc.
So that's what I wish to see be the first step to major improvements in the city. Actual usefulness of public spaces. I'm tired of seeing bored, uninspiring, unused public spaces in the city.
So Lynners, ready to get your hands dirty, your brows sweat-lined?
Friday, April 16, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Rest in Peace Post 507
Warning: I am a graveyard shifter and primarily a stream of conscious writer, so sometimes my writing makes no sense.
Post 507, my memories are brighter than the reality.
I was drawn back to this hidden lot amongst the highlands from a recent reading in the Lynn Item that the land was for sale and will soon become a bustling and hustling charter school. I know the school will do good for the students and be a bright spot in the city for education, but do we need it in the Highlands?
My thoughts on this are as follows: why would you build a school in such a secluded, quiet, hard to get to place? I want to bet that most Lynners rarely travel to the highlands unless they feel like looking down on the city from High Rock reservation. Why is it so ill-traveled? Mostly because all of the ways up to the inner highlands are steep roads that put a strain on cars, especially older ones (which is why I shudder at the thought of buses trying to go down some of the roads when there's snow and ice on the roads, the highlands rarely gets plowed).
As well, unless you live in the Highlands you really have no reason to go there, it's not some secret short cut to the other side of town nor is it a center of business. The highlands is primarily a lower middle class neighborhood, one I am proud to remember as my birthplace and the land of my upbringing.
The streets are narrow, many of them steep (many times I have been frightened of my brakes failing on some of the streets). Because of the nature of the terrain the streets are also some of the safest in Lynn (surprising because to my knowledge there is not a single traffic light in the Highlands proper) This means kids can play outside with less of a fear of getting hit. As the area is so dense with housing and so diverse in turns, dips, inclines, most of the cars travel slowly which makes it a great neighborhood to let your kids out to play in. Sure some of you may argue the Highlands are a hotbed of gang activity and shootings but I have rarely heard of murders, car accidents, jumpings, or break ins related to the area.
So far anyone not familiar with the highlands may start to form a picture of the area: slow traffic due to necessity, seclusion, and driving environment. A place with a lot of young children (lower income families tend to have more children than higher income earners), a strong sense of community (people always ask west or east, I always reply Highlands, we take pride in our porphyry hills).
Now what does adding a busy, shiny, new school with mostly non-highland residents mean?
-Well, during construction there will be much more noise (say good bye to a quiet sit on the porch/balcony). As well, construction through all hours of the night, much cheaper for the school to do it that way. Large construction vehicles traveling the narrow, steep, crowded roads to get to the site. I bet there will be many missing side view mirrors and scratched sides on cars
-There will be much more pollution in the air: diesel fumes, dirt, concrete dust, and all the other nice things that go with large scale construction.
-Increased and more dangerous traffic: Buses lurching around sharp corners, down steep hills .Think of what it will be like when the snowbanks pop up and the streets virtually become single lanes...not to mention how the buses will deal with going down an icy hill. Not to mention the late mom or dad speeding up the hills to get junior to or from school.
-This is opinion: increased property taxes due to the nice, new, well-performing school. This will basically gentrify the almost exclusively minority and low-income neighborhood in the Highlands and force many of the residents out and into more dangerous, less safe neighborhoods.
-A loss of a large area of social importance: many gatherings have taken place at the post whether from the time when the baseball field was used or at the club itself in the form of vets getting together for a drink or families renting the place for wedding parties and other gatherings.
-Loss of a possible site for urban agriculture, gardens, outdoor gathering place, community center.
-A detractor to the already existing public elementary school, Ford School. I am sure the higher grade point kids will be taken out by their parents and enrolled into the new private school which will bring down the academic standing of Ford. And as it is a public school it will be stuck in a cycle of brain-drain and funding loss.
-A loss of habitat for wildlife. I'm a very amateur naturalist but if I remember correctly there are many salamanders, snakes (many snakes!), newts, foxes, nesting places for endangered birds, resting/feeding grounds for migratory (and endangered!) butterflies and moths, etc. Anyone not familiar with New England ecology should know that reptiles and amphibians in new England are highly endangered and any place they are found should be protected. If anything I would suggest turning this place over to be added to the High Rock reservation, maybe rehabilitate the field. I also suggest sending a biologist up there to check if the salamanders still live there (if they do there is a possibility of making the site protected which will force the school to be smaller and probably not prefer the land as much.)
Now of course I know that this is private land and I support property rights of the owners, but I think they are forgetting how much of an impact their land has on the neighborhood of the Highlands and how much of a detriment to the social fabric of the community they will have by selling it and barring access to the residents.
I know that the post has already changed much from when I lived at 66 high rock street and jumped my stone wall to hang out in "the woods" but the memories of that place still burn in my brain. That place had such an impact on my life. I met my best friend there who I would continue to be best friends with from age 4 up until he passed away last year. I spent many days there enamored with the wildlife (it influenced me to eventually grow to have a huge love of conservation and wildlife). It was an outdoor place that kids could go to without fear, no drug deals, gangs, or perverts/kidnappers. At the same time it fostered Independence. I could go there without parental supervision (as I was within a minute walk from my house, and shouting distance). My friends and I felt like we were adults out exploring the open world by hunting snakes in the tall grass, trekking through the windbreak, and climbing the rocky "mountain" to get to the "castle" (High Rock tower).
Like I said at the beginning, I returned to the Post recently,My friend (who shares many of the same childhood memories as I do of the place) and I climbed down from High Rock Park. It's already much changed. A house sits on the rocks we used to watch the clouds from, piles of dirt and concrete coupled with back-hoes litter the fields were we trampled through puddles, captured small insects and animals, made believe we were out on the African Savannah, the path from my old house to the Post is now a fenced parking lot. The windbreak or as we called it the "devil's woods" ,because we always found it creepy to be in there for extended periods, plus the thorn trees looked evil, is also mostly gone.
That aside, there is still a chance for it to easily and cheaply be turned back into a community place, not a private school with a large soccer field off limits to the public.
But knowing municipal government and outside interest this place will be lost and a tear in the fabric of the community will appear, slowly growing larger over the years as the neighborhood transforms into a sterile, characterless, bedroom community for Boston transplants seeking to get away from Boston but bringing it with them as well. (Yeah I know, that's a huge and fanciful assumption of what a private school will bring to the Highlands and mostly opinion.)
I say, let the community (with funds from the city because I know there are grants for these sort of things) purchase the land with pooled funds and turn it into something of use to the neighborhood, not an anchor for future gentrification and the veritable death knell of the community.
But don't take my word for it. Contact the many groups in the Highlands about it.
http://hclynn.org/
There's the link to the Highlands coalition, a resident formed and staffed group dedicated to their neighborhood.
Yours always, fair lady Lynn
Kyle Devaney, son of the Highlands.
Post 507, my memories are brighter than the reality.
I was drawn back to this hidden lot amongst the highlands from a recent reading in the Lynn Item that the land was for sale and will soon become a bustling and hustling charter school. I know the school will do good for the students and be a bright spot in the city for education, but do we need it in the Highlands?
My thoughts on this are as follows: why would you build a school in such a secluded, quiet, hard to get to place? I want to bet that most Lynners rarely travel to the highlands unless they feel like looking down on the city from High Rock reservation. Why is it so ill-traveled? Mostly because all of the ways up to the inner highlands are steep roads that put a strain on cars, especially older ones (which is why I shudder at the thought of buses trying to go down some of the roads when there's snow and ice on the roads, the highlands rarely gets plowed).
As well, unless you live in the Highlands you really have no reason to go there, it's not some secret short cut to the other side of town nor is it a center of business. The highlands is primarily a lower middle class neighborhood, one I am proud to remember as my birthplace and the land of my upbringing.
The streets are narrow, many of them steep (many times I have been frightened of my brakes failing on some of the streets). Because of the nature of the terrain the streets are also some of the safest in Lynn (surprising because to my knowledge there is not a single traffic light in the Highlands proper) This means kids can play outside with less of a fear of getting hit. As the area is so dense with housing and so diverse in turns, dips, inclines, most of the cars travel slowly which makes it a great neighborhood to let your kids out to play in. Sure some of you may argue the Highlands are a hotbed of gang activity and shootings but I have rarely heard of murders, car accidents, jumpings, or break ins related to the area.
So far anyone not familiar with the highlands may start to form a picture of the area: slow traffic due to necessity, seclusion, and driving environment. A place with a lot of young children (lower income families tend to have more children than higher income earners), a strong sense of community (people always ask west or east, I always reply Highlands, we take pride in our porphyry hills).
Now what does adding a busy, shiny, new school with mostly non-highland residents mean?
-Well, during construction there will be much more noise (say good bye to a quiet sit on the porch/balcony). As well, construction through all hours of the night, much cheaper for the school to do it that way. Large construction vehicles traveling the narrow, steep, crowded roads to get to the site. I bet there will be many missing side view mirrors and scratched sides on cars
-There will be much more pollution in the air: diesel fumes, dirt, concrete dust, and all the other nice things that go with large scale construction.
-Increased and more dangerous traffic: Buses lurching around sharp corners, down steep hills .Think of what it will be like when the snowbanks pop up and the streets virtually become single lanes...not to mention how the buses will deal with going down an icy hill. Not to mention the late mom or dad speeding up the hills to get junior to or from school.
-This is opinion: increased property taxes due to the nice, new, well-performing school. This will basically gentrify the almost exclusively minority and low-income neighborhood in the Highlands and force many of the residents out and into more dangerous, less safe neighborhoods.
-A loss of a large area of social importance: many gatherings have taken place at the post whether from the time when the baseball field was used or at the club itself in the form of vets getting together for a drink or families renting the place for wedding parties and other gatherings.
-Loss of a possible site for urban agriculture, gardens, outdoor gathering place, community center.
-A detractor to the already existing public elementary school, Ford School. I am sure the higher grade point kids will be taken out by their parents and enrolled into the new private school which will bring down the academic standing of Ford. And as it is a public school it will be stuck in a cycle of brain-drain and funding loss.
-A loss of habitat for wildlife. I'm a very amateur naturalist but if I remember correctly there are many salamanders, snakes (many snakes!), newts, foxes, nesting places for endangered birds, resting/feeding grounds for migratory (and endangered!) butterflies and moths, etc. Anyone not familiar with New England ecology should know that reptiles and amphibians in new England are highly endangered and any place they are found should be protected. If anything I would suggest turning this place over to be added to the High Rock reservation, maybe rehabilitate the field. I also suggest sending a biologist up there to check if the salamanders still live there (if they do there is a possibility of making the site protected which will force the school to be smaller and probably not prefer the land as much.)
Now of course I know that this is private land and I support property rights of the owners, but I think they are forgetting how much of an impact their land has on the neighborhood of the Highlands and how much of a detriment to the social fabric of the community they will have by selling it and barring access to the residents.
I know that the post has already changed much from when I lived at 66 high rock street and jumped my stone wall to hang out in "the woods" but the memories of that place still burn in my brain. That place had such an impact on my life. I met my best friend there who I would continue to be best friends with from age 4 up until he passed away last year. I spent many days there enamored with the wildlife (it influenced me to eventually grow to have a huge love of conservation and wildlife). It was an outdoor place that kids could go to without fear, no drug deals, gangs, or perverts/kidnappers. At the same time it fostered Independence. I could go there without parental supervision (as I was within a minute walk from my house, and shouting distance). My friends and I felt like we were adults out exploring the open world by hunting snakes in the tall grass, trekking through the windbreak, and climbing the rocky "mountain" to get to the "castle" (High Rock tower).
Like I said at the beginning, I returned to the Post recently,My friend (who shares many of the same childhood memories as I do of the place) and I climbed down from High Rock Park. It's already much changed. A house sits on the rocks we used to watch the clouds from, piles of dirt and concrete coupled with back-hoes litter the fields were we trampled through puddles, captured small insects and animals, made believe we were out on the African Savannah, the path from my old house to the Post is now a fenced parking lot. The windbreak or as we called it the "devil's woods" ,because we always found it creepy to be in there for extended periods, plus the thorn trees looked evil, is also mostly gone.
That aside, there is still a chance for it to easily and cheaply be turned back into a community place, not a private school with a large soccer field off limits to the public.
But knowing municipal government and outside interest this place will be lost and a tear in the fabric of the community will appear, slowly growing larger over the years as the neighborhood transforms into a sterile, characterless, bedroom community for Boston transplants seeking to get away from Boston but bringing it with them as well. (Yeah I know, that's a huge and fanciful assumption of what a private school will bring to the Highlands and mostly opinion.)
I say, let the community (with funds from the city because I know there are grants for these sort of things) purchase the land with pooled funds and turn it into something of use to the neighborhood, not an anchor for future gentrification and the veritable death knell of the community.
But don't take my word for it. Contact the many groups in the Highlands about it.
http://hclynn.org/
There's the link to the Highlands coalition, a resident formed and staffed group dedicated to their neighborhood.
Yours always, fair lady Lynn
Kyle Devaney, son of the Highlands.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
On the Wonder of Rabbits as Meat
On Rabbits: Rabbits are a great source of meat, prized in Mediterranean cooking for their tender and delicate meat. I am surprised to find that people who care about their environment and the quality of their food, as well as taste, don't raise the horn on this furry little critter.
Rabbit is almost nonexistent in modern Northern American eating. But why? Rabbit is one the fastest growing domestic meat animals, they live short lives and require very little input as far as food, just hay, grass, and varied greens...they can live on leafy left overs from the salad bowl! Not to mention...rabbits reproduce like....rabbits! They have an amazing number of offspring and rapidly produce more meat than one can handle. Not to mention I believe they have the least non-food parts in any meat animal, very little bone weight, almost no fat, and the skinning of a rabbit is the easiest and cleanest out of any domestic animal (no more feathers in the nose!)
So here is a challenge, find some place that sells rabbit and prepare it in a tasty way...and if you like it buy a good meat rabbit and watch the need for chicken meat fade from your plate...and the food bill go down.
I mean...all you need is a small hutch in the drive way and some leafy food with some hay and minor precautions against predators and pests.
(I apologize for any grammar or spelling errors, it is quite late and I am far too tired to proof-read...not to mention my spell-check isn't there to help!)
Rabbit is almost nonexistent in modern Northern American eating. But why? Rabbit is one the fastest growing domestic meat animals, they live short lives and require very little input as far as food, just hay, grass, and varied greens...they can live on leafy left overs from the salad bowl! Not to mention...rabbits reproduce like....rabbits! They have an amazing number of offspring and rapidly produce more meat than one can handle. Not to mention I believe they have the least non-food parts in any meat animal, very little bone weight, almost no fat, and the skinning of a rabbit is the easiest and cleanest out of any domestic animal (no more feathers in the nose!)
So here is a challenge, find some place that sells rabbit and prepare it in a tasty way...and if you like it buy a good meat rabbit and watch the need for chicken meat fade from your plate...and the food bill go down.
I mean...all you need is a small hutch in the drive way and some leafy food with some hay and minor precautions against predators and pests.
(I apologize for any grammar or spelling errors, it is quite late and I am far too tired to proof-read...not to mention my spell-check isn't there to help!)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Drudgery Is a Catalyzer : Thoughts On a New Path
I have often noticed that when I am at work with my body doing manual labor, my mind wanders and comes up with new ideas, stories, or just sifts through random memories and thoughts. One of the few things I like about my job is that it is mindless, so it basically gives me plenty of time to formulate new ideas. In fact, I would like to think that the majority of my new ideas come from this time of drudgery.
Well here is one...
Lynn Shore Extension: Phase One
I think that one of the easiest places in Lynn to change is the waterfront. There's virtually no residences in the way of any possible planning, and much of the buildings along the southern stretch past the roundabout are either abandoned or not right on the waterfront. Well for today's post I am going to focus on the waterfront that is fully public already, the area that follows Lynn Shore drive from Swampscott up until a little past the Nahant roundabout.
copyrights to Google
Basically the two red circles represent two areas of immediate interest that could be updated to increase traffic to Lynn's waterfront.
The one to the left represents a vacant lot, I am unsure if it is city property or not, but if it is available and not contaminated I think it would make an excellent feature to the shore, especially seeing how it is already empty and abuts Lynn Heritage Park, and is within walking distance from Downtown Lynn. I have no idea what to put there, maybe a memorial park? Maybe move the Museum there and some city offices? Maybe a two screen Movie theater like Salem Cinema? Maybe just a nice field with some trees for picnicking or taking in the breeze.
The second red circle is already public land, it currently is a baseball field and tennis court. I say ditch the baseball field, in all my years of living in Lynn I never saw a single baseball game there...and it's not currently accessible by foot traffic, at least safely and conveniently anyways. Not to mention, how many damn baseball fields does Lynn have already? I want to say upwards of 20, and few of them are rarely used on a daily basis. So I say replace the baseball field with maybe something more useful. Again I have no strong thoughts on the subject, maybe an outdoor concert venue, maybe something Lynn doesn't have yet? I'm not really sure.
The main feature, however, of what I am proposing is an extended pedestrian path stretching from the Left red ring of the vacant lot all the way to Swampscott. Lynn Heritage park already has some paths and is a public place why not take it a step further and link it with the baseball fields near the rotary and go a step further and logically and conveintly link it with Lynn Shore drive's promenade?
I already see one small trouble spot that I am sure can be ironed out, the marina is in the way but hell the path can just extend around it or something and then loop back around into the baseball/tennis court area.
Even if the above can't be accomplished I think at least one thing should be done to connect Lynn Heritage park with the Lynn Shore Reservation.
That is the overpass on the Lynnway approaching the Nahant rotary. I think in order to safely increase pedestrian traffic from Downtown a path must be started at the above overpass through the Heritage park (which is sadly underused) and continuing on to the also underused public space at the rotary and finally connecting with Lynn Shore Reservation requires one thing.
How do we connect the Heritage Park and the rotary public space with the Reservation (the path that runs along Lynn Shore drive?
I proposed building another overpass for pedestrians, one right over the entrance to Nahant. One that stretches from the public space at the rotary over the four lane highway that goes to Nahant and touches down near the tot-lot on the Lynn Shore Reservation.
I think an overpass for pedestrians should cross over this intersection and touch down over near the tot-lot.
I think it should look a little nicer than the Lynn way overpass, a little less industrial, maybe more artistic.
One of my ideas is to hang two wrought-iron signs one over the entrance to Nahant and one at the exit from Nahant. One reading "Welcome to Lynn" the other "Welcome to Nahant"
well that's it for today, off to drawing an image of the pedestrian overpass.
Well here is one...
Lynn Shore Extension: Phase One
I think that one of the easiest places in Lynn to change is the waterfront. There's virtually no residences in the way of any possible planning, and much of the buildings along the southern stretch past the roundabout are either abandoned or not right on the waterfront. Well for today's post I am going to focus on the waterfront that is fully public already, the area that follows Lynn Shore drive from Swampscott up until a little past the Nahant roundabout.
copyrights to Google
Basically the two red circles represent two areas of immediate interest that could be updated to increase traffic to Lynn's waterfront.
The one to the left represents a vacant lot, I am unsure if it is city property or not, but if it is available and not contaminated I think it would make an excellent feature to the shore, especially seeing how it is already empty and abuts Lynn Heritage Park, and is within walking distance from Downtown Lynn. I have no idea what to put there, maybe a memorial park? Maybe move the Museum there and some city offices? Maybe a two screen Movie theater like Salem Cinema? Maybe just a nice field with some trees for picnicking or taking in the breeze.
The second red circle is already public land, it currently is a baseball field and tennis court. I say ditch the baseball field, in all my years of living in Lynn I never saw a single baseball game there...and it's not currently accessible by foot traffic, at least safely and conveniently anyways. Not to mention, how many damn baseball fields does Lynn have already? I want to say upwards of 20, and few of them are rarely used on a daily basis. So I say replace the baseball field with maybe something more useful. Again I have no strong thoughts on the subject, maybe an outdoor concert venue, maybe something Lynn doesn't have yet? I'm not really sure.
The main feature, however, of what I am proposing is an extended pedestrian path stretching from the Left red ring of the vacant lot all the way to Swampscott. Lynn Heritage park already has some paths and is a public place why not take it a step further and link it with the baseball fields near the rotary and go a step further and logically and conveintly link it with Lynn Shore drive's promenade?
I already see one small trouble spot that I am sure can be ironed out, the marina is in the way but hell the path can just extend around it or something and then loop back around into the baseball/tennis court area.
Even if the above can't be accomplished I think at least one thing should be done to connect Lynn Heritage park with the Lynn Shore Reservation.
That is the overpass on the Lynnway approaching the Nahant rotary. I think in order to safely increase pedestrian traffic from Downtown a path must be started at the above overpass through the Heritage park (which is sadly underused) and continuing on to the also underused public space at the rotary and finally connecting with Lynn Shore Reservation requires one thing.
How do we connect the Heritage Park and the rotary public space with the Reservation (the path that runs along Lynn Shore drive?
I proposed building another overpass for pedestrians, one right over the entrance to Nahant. One that stretches from the public space at the rotary over the four lane highway that goes to Nahant and touches down near the tot-lot on the Lynn Shore Reservation.
I think an overpass for pedestrians should cross over this intersection and touch down over near the tot-lot.
I think it should look a little nicer than the Lynn way overpass, a little less industrial, maybe more artistic.
One of my ideas is to hang two wrought-iron signs one over the entrance to Nahant and one at the exit from Nahant. One reading "Welcome to Lynn" the other "Welcome to Nahant"
well that's it for today, off to drawing an image of the pedestrian overpass.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Blast and Confound the Winds
The devil rides the winds up and down New England today. A spell of cold has seethed into So. New Hampshire out of no where, didn't we just have two fifty degree days a week ago? Eight degrees yesterday with a wind chill of eleven below, Five degrees now...but how the wind bites at the flesh.
This is my first blog, so I have forayed into new territory! The gods in Asagard shall be pleased!
I shall lay out what I plan to do with this blog in a short list lest your eyes grow sore.
She shall rise as the star of Essex county, the crown jewel of the Northern Shore.
This is my first blog, so I have forayed into new territory! The gods in Asagard shall be pleased!
I shall lay out what I plan to do with this blog in a short list lest your eyes grow sore.
- Keep written record of adventures, impressions and sensations felt on these adventures as well as details.
- Toss forth ideas from the brain, fitful imaginings, and dreams.
- Exercise the brain meats in the art of writing, I do too much thinking and recording in the brain and not on the pulp with the ink and pen!
She shall rise as the star of Essex county, the crown jewel of the Northern Shore.
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