Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim - Having lived here for more than 40 years now, I think I know Boston's Metro West pretty well but you're always pointing out things I haven't seen. Thanks for the tour. Nice pix, too. I particularly like the one of the stone bridge for its simplicity and the stark contrast of form between the stone work and the bare trees. Regards, Dick On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:57 AM, Jim Hemenway wrote: > Shot a week ago with my Rollei: > > <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-6008i-RedFilter-TriX-04162000/> > > The Case estate is in the process of being purchased from Harvard > University by the town of Weston. The wall shown is reputedly the > tallest and thickest stone wall in Massachusetts. Ten feet tall and > six feet thick. > > The Old Stone Bridge is ancient by US standards and straddles the > Sudbury river. That's Sudbury on the right bank and Framingham on > the left. The bridge's distinction is that it was used by General > Knox when he moved the cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga to > Dorchester Heights, just before the Americans scared those pesky > British Lobsterbacks out of Boston on March 17, 1776. > > I don't think there have been any additions to that graveyard in > living memory. > > Same day with the Pentax K10D: > <http://www.hemenway.com/MetroWest-K10D-04162008/> > > The Old Dozer is "imprisoned" within a small forest but can seen > from the road now because the trees haven't "leafed out yet". I've > probably driven by it dozens of times. > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information