Jamaica Pond

Sunset over Jamaica Pond

adamg — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:53:11 -0400

Video: Jamaica Pond

stevegarfield — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:23:10 -0400

Kodak Zi6 - Jamaica Pond from stevegarfield on Vimeo.

Fall in Jamaica Plain

adamg — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:37:17 -0400

Some nice photos from Forest Hills Cemetery, including one of a sunning turtle.

Some nice photos from Jamaica Pond.

Boston Parks Department springs into action

adamg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:40:53 -0400

On Friday, Steve Garfield photographed some stupid graffiti scrawled across the width of one of the paths around Jamaica Pond. Today, he reports, the scratchings are gone.

Hey! Who took his fishing pole?

adamg — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:42:26 -0400

Steve Garfield captures (digitally, of course), one of the fabled white squirrels of Jamaica Pond.

Spires

adamg — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:03:10 -0400

Mike Ball says the toppled willow at Jamaica Pond reminds him of something from Lord of the Rings.

'The deafening din of children from every corner of the city!"

adamg — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:31:45 -0400

Oh, the horror, the horror that would descend on the area around Jamaica Pond if swimming were allowed. Because you just know kids everywhere would drop what they're doing and charter buses to take them to THE POND and those buses would idle all day long outside those expensive condos and that would be quite distressing enough but then, before the buses left, all those urchins would run wild through the streets, mugging everybody they see and throwing rocks through windows and setting fire to the mansions and breaking out their cans of spray paint and writing on everything.

Litigious Jamaica Pond

adamg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:07:40 -0400

Mark recounts decade after decade of various legal actions involving the pond (mainly related to people doing such dastardly things as taking ice out of it without the town of West Roxbury's consent - OK, granted, 8,000 tons of ice). He mentions that in 1856, the town of West Roxbury stationed a policeman on the shores in warm weather to stop people from swimming in the pond (back when it was still used as a drinking-water supply).

Photographer barely escapes ravenous beast at Jamaica Pond

adamg — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:38:05 -0400

When albino squirrels attack.

Breaking: New Trees Planted Across From Jamaica Pond

stevegarfield — Thu, 22 May 2008 13:30:09 -0400

It was nice to see some new trees planted across from Jamaica Pond this morning. They are just beside the recently refurbished wall.

I'd give them about 50 years.

Then they'll have to be cut down, after their roots destroy the wall again, and the wall be need to be restored.

Then new trees will be planted.

The cycle of life.