I’m back home after my trip to Boston (well, Chelmsford, actually) for my niece’s wedding. I had a great time, and it was a beautiful wedding. My aunt from California was there – the first time she’d been in the Boston area, and the first time she had met her two grand-nieces. We did a lot of touristy things, since she hadn’t been there before.
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See the little bit of red in the photo on the left? This is one of the 5 trees in Massachusetts that was changing colors. OK, I’m exaggerating. A little. But not much – the trees are only just starting to change, as you can see by all of the green in this photo taken from North Bridge in Concord: |
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We watched fabric being made at Boote Mill in Lowell and learned about the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. |
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And saw the old carding machines |
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There were even interesting textile items at the Museum of Fine Arts. This statue is ceramic, but the upper part (in blue) is yarn. |
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Or how about some cross-stitched shoes? |
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And check out these Italian platform shoes from around 1600. Sometimes they were more than 20″ tall, even though the law prohibited heights of more than 11″. |
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Of course, wonderful seafood was consumed. This was the lobster roll (with lobster bisque) at the Colonial Inn in Concord, where we had a delightful lunch on the patio. |
Glad to see you got your lobster roll. Our trees down here on the South Shore are changing a bit more but they are still mostly green, too.
Lobsta? You ate Lobsta? I am so, so, so jealous. Truly, drooling on the keyboard. Many people from my office went to Seattle last week and where did they eat? Outback Steakhouse. Some things, I will NEVER understand. Sigh. Welcome home!
Those shoes are amazing – make the 1970s platforms look very tame.
I hope they never had to actually walk anywhere in them though!
It sounds lovely. I hope the shawl worked out great. Jealous of the lobster too.
Mmm… lobster. Ye gads, those shoes!