Map showing proposed changes - blob at far left is now parking, will become a stand of trees, walkways
The Arnold Arboretum has filed plans to upgrade its Walter Street gate in Roslindale in part by replacing eight parking spaces with trees and improving the pedestrian paths along Bussey Brook near the entrance. Read more.
On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer watched a crew carve up a large tree knocked over in West Newton by this afternoon's storm.
At 8:16 p.m., the MBTA reported Red Line delays of up to 30 minutes due to a downed tree on the tracks near Quincy Center. At 8:34 p.m., the T reported bustitution between North Quincy and Quincy Center due to the Kilmerian obstruction. At 9:19 p.m., the T reported it had extended the shuttle service all the way to Braintree. As of 10:15 p.m., the T was reporting the Braintree branch was still blocked by that darned tree.
Mary Ellen spotted a too early sign of fall the other day at Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
Mark Smith shares the morning sun on pine trees and grass on the Peter's Hill side of the Arnold Arboretum.
Woodman, spare those trees, well, some of them. Map shows trees to be chopped (blue), saved if possible (red) and left alone (yellow).
Cambridge and Algonquin Gas Transmission today filed a plan that will let the pipeline company use part of a quarter-acre city parcel off Rte. 2 in Lincoln to haul in new equipment for a pipeline facility on the company's adjoining lot. Read more.
Cambridge says a pipeline company that wants to cut down trees on a small city-owned parcel near the city reservoir on the Lincoln/Waltham line is disregarding the law, the rights of the town of Lincoln and the purity of Cambridge drinking water in its demand to use the parcel as a way to get heavy equipment to a neighboring lot for installation. Read more
Some bloomin' mushrooms on a tree at Millennium Park along the Charles River this afternoon, after the rain had stopped.
Mark Smith reports it's peak cherry-blossom time at the Arnold Arboretum.
"Won't last long - don't miss it!" he advises.
Teddy Kokoros recorded the aftermath of a mighty wind at the JFK/UMass T stop this morning.
Damien Drella reports that high winds caused the partial collapse of a four-story section of an apartment building in Saugus. Read more.
Fronm the Boston tree map.
All of Boston's street trees, mapped.
The data comes from the city's inventory of both street trees and trees in parks, which is available for download as spreadsheets.
More info on Boston's "urban forest" efforts.
Mark Smith gets ready for a Bergman film by strolling through the Arnold Arboretum.
Jamaica Plain News reports the Arnold Arboretum lost some 40 "accessioned" trees, including a dozen hemlocks snapped in half - by a storm in December that brought both rain to already saturated soil and high winds.
Mary Ellen went for her usual sunrise walk through a snow-covered Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning. Read more.
Mary Ellen started her Christmas with a walk through Millennium Park in West Roxbury.
TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.
Firefighters, police officers and public-works and Eversource crews earned their pay today as a never ending flood of reports came in about downed trees and utility poles, power outages and flooded roads. Here are some of the reports reported to Boston 311 today: Read more.
Andrea Doremus Cuetara captured the tree next to the firehouse on Centre Street in West Roxbury yesterday afternoon.
Earlier:
Firehouse then and now.
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