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Fenway Victory Gardens, May '09

Just a few shots from my bike ride down to Fenway. Low-key day. The Fenway Victory Gardens are coming to life. Today, a mild spring day, I found a fair number of gardeners tending to their small plots, a few people gardening for the first time, others in long-established plots that feature rock gardens and trellises and pools. Overall, a friendly spirit; strangers speaking to one another where otherwise this would not be the case. Lovely. With cheers from Fenway Park wafting through the neighborhood. Go Sox.

I returned the next day to try and capture a little more color and detail, though the light was not great - way too sunny - and was hard to get close to many of the flowers because of closed gates.
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May 9, 2009. What is this cute little stone house on the Jamaica Way side of the Muddy River - some kind of water-works building?
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May 9, 2009. What is this cute little stone house on the Jamaica Way side of the Muddy River - some kind of water-works building?

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  • May 9, 2009. What is this cute little stone house on the Jamaica Way side of the Muddy River - some kind of water-works building?
  • These stone buildings and archways (slightly light-struck here) are representative of the architecture during what must have been the original creation of the Muddy River section of the Emerald Necklace. The Emerald Necklace, a green-way that runs from the Back Bay to Franklin Park, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted - yes, also of NYC's Central Park fame - in the late 1800s.
  • The entrance to a small playground on the Fens. Mother's Rest - ha - no such thing until our last Big Rest.
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  • An enthusiastic young gardener, on the verge of planting his first garden.
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  • Marie, transferring spoils from the morning's community "divide" into the transplant nursery,  to be shared among the community gardeners.
  • May 10, 2009.
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