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A brilliant fall morning in East Boston

By adamg - 10/14/15 - 11:47 am

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"Fall is OK, I guess," RADeLisle says after looking down Cottage Street in East Boston this morning.

Fall comes to Boston

By adamg - 10/10/15 - 9:12 am

JB Parrett spent some time on the Esplanade.

Tranquility in the city

By adamg - 10/5/15 - 2:31 pm

Dock in Turtle Pond in the Stony Brook Reservation

One of the docks on Turtle Pond in Stony Brook Reservation this afternoon - during the two minutes when the wind stopped and the surface of the pond was fairly calm.

Men in trees

By adamg - 11/24/14 - 10:27 pm

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Leslee watched tree guys doing tree stuff on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall today.

Posted under this Creative Commons license in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

That's a lot of leaves

By adamg - 11/8/14 - 11:34 am

Leaf pile, anyone? TrueNE_79 took a walk through the Common this morning.

Fall reflections

By adamg - 10/13/14 - 6:35 pm

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Brian MacLean photographed Houghton's Pond in the Blue Hills Reservation the other day.

Copyright Brian MacLean. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Giant head contemplates fall

By adamg - 10/6/14 - 8:15 am

JB Parrett enjoyed a nice fall day on the Esplanade yesterday, along with Arthur Fieldler's giant disembodied head.

Winter is coming, but fall is already here

By adamg - 9/25/14 - 11:02 pm

Fall leaves along the Needham Line train tracks

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What made these trees turn so much earlier than the rest of them along the Needham Line tracks? Spotted this afternoon from across the Charles in Millennium Park in West Roxbury.

Fall busts out on West Roxbury Parkway

By adamg - 11/5/13 - 8:16 am

There are some amazing trees in West Roxbury today.

Also see Brad Kelly's photo of Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

Screw leaf raking this weekend

By adamg - 10/25/12 - 10:49 am

With Sandy churning up the Atlantic as it bears down on a coast that could face the brunt of its fury, WBZ meterorologist Todd Gutner advises:

Don't bother raking, waste of time.

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Expert: Stinky bugs not stink bugs

By adamg - 10/5/12 - 8:50 am

Jennifer Forman Orth, our go-to expert for invasive species, reports that with falling temperatures, more residents can expect their homes to be invaded by these brown bugs that, when startled, smell up the joint.

In most cases, she writes, they're actually western conifer seed bugs, which showed up here in the 1990s and which, fortunately, are not messing with local ecosystems:

You can often find them resting on the sides of houses, on doors and on window screens, where they are hoping to find a way to sneak in.

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Salem hotel has a giant pumpkin

By adamg - 10/2/12 - 2:23 pm

Right in the lobby.

Colors of fall

By adamg - 9/26/12 - 6:45 pm

Winter is coming

By adamg - 9/22/12 - 3:36 pm

First snowman of the season in West Roxbury Frosty, is that you?

Wicked Sharp (is that a good Boston name or what?) uses discarded ice from the Roche skating rink on VFW Parkway to create snowmen outside their store on Centre Street in West Roxbury.