The rather magnificent Galen Stone Tower, Green Hall, Wellesley College, 106 Central St, Wellesley MA photographed from Buck Hill. While only about 13 miles away, this has proven to be a very difficult target to get a good photograph of. This one certainly is not the best, but it was taken on a fairly good day for visibility and shows a fair amount of detail of the tower. Given the limitations of my current gear, this is probably going to be close to the best that I can get. From the vantage point of Buck Hill, Galen Stone Tower sits almost directly under the summit of Mount Wachusett. Mount Wachusett is about 45.7 miles away which gives one a really good scale at just how small most man-made objects are.

Unfortunately, this beautiful stone tower lies in an almost direct line with a not so beautiful communications tower, Needham Recycling and Transfer Station, 1421 Central Ave, Needham MA about 10.3 miles away. I took a stab at removing the comm tower using photoshop, so I have included that here as well, but full disclaimer that the first photo is the true depiction.

I have also included a photo I took of the tower on the Wellesley College campus. I happened to be in town for an appointment, and it was a quick detour to see this wonder up close.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Wellesley #WellesleyMA #Needham #NeedhamMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

Banned books events from the Boston Public Library

https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?q=Banned%20Books

#BostonMA #bannedbooks

Dawn and sunrise this morning, Oct 5th, from Buck Hill!

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonWX #BostonMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #Weather #Sunrise #Dawn

This was the best ride of the year.

There were live DJs at the halfway stop, and the end.

The halfway stop was on the top level of the parking garage at Alewife. One of the (spiral) ramps isn't used anymore, but is still accessible. So we used that.

The ride included two bike / ped paths I hadn't used before. One I didn't even know existed.

Magical Musical Mystery bike tour group ride
https://www.instagram.com/p/DN8wm7-D2cI

#BikeTooter #BostonMA

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Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Chris Grace perform at the Huntington Theater in Boston. The show is called "Sardines (a comedy about death)", and it delivers. Chris gave a heartfelt and touching performance that perfectly balanced humor and his personal experiences with death.

We got a promo code to share, so if you want to go, your tickets will be cheaper if you add the code "TELLAFRIEND25"

#SardinesBOS #Boston #BostonMA #BostonWeekend

DXL Corporate Headquarters and Warehouse, 555 Turnpike St, Canton MA, photographed from Buck Hill. The air conditioning units that can be seen in front of one corner of the building are on the Bank of Canton Headquarters, 490 Turnpike St, Canton MA.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Canton #CantonMA #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

I've been living in Boston for decades, and still keep learning new things about the city.

A bike ride with RozzieBikes for tomorrow advertised the route to include Germantown.

Searching the Internets I found this, which gives some good information. https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/61c12e/looking_for_information_about_germantown/

#BostonMA #Germantown

#NoKings 2.0
Saturday, October 18th, 2025

#NoKingsMassachusetts
(Part 2 of 10)

#BillericaMA
#BoltonMA
#BostonMA
#BridgewaterMA
#BrocktonMA
#CharltonMA
#ChathamMA
#ChelmsfordMA
#ConcordMA
#DaltonMA

Link:
https://www.nokings.org

#BostonMA lets face it...this weather is too good for us....related side note: why don't these local brewpubs have decent wheat beers? Boston deserves better wheat beers...

Sitting in the shade, wearing my favorite #USDS T shirt, waiting for the #AllstonBrightonParade to pass by. Hoping for a selfie with #MichelleWu.
#Allston #Brighton #Boston #BostonMA #BrightonMA #parade

Operation Milkweed

Help Massachusetts families impacted by ICE enforcement today.

https://operationmilkweed.org/

#mutualaid #uspol #ice #civilrights #BostonMA #immigration

St Joseph's Church, 115 Union St, Lynn MA photographed from Buck Hill. The olive green spire is a little hard to pick out against the brown background and the tip of the spire only just rises above the land behind it.

In front of the church is the Harbor Loft Apartments, 7 Liberty Square, Lynn MA. To the left of that is a fuel storage tank, National Grid, 277-399 Blossom Street Ext, Lynn MA. To the right of the church on the horizon is a water tower, 15 Colby St, Salem MA.

This photo is a great example of the stripes of land and water that form Boston Harbor. The first strip of land below has several houses visible, inclusing several on Lorean Terrace that are in Winthrop MA. The next strip of land is part of the runway for Logan Internation Airport, East Boston MA and to the left of frame a Jet Blue airliner can be seen. Below that is Castle Island, with a view of parts of Fort Independence. While most of the fort is behind trees, the structure can be made out through the bare branches. Below that is Head Island which has what looks like a lookout tower at the tip.

#BuckHill #BlueHills #BlueHillsReservation #Boston #BostonMA #Lynn #LynnMA #Salem #SalemMA #Winthrop #WinthropMA #EastBoston #EastBostonMA #SouthBoston #SouthBostonMA #CastleIsland #FortIndependence #HeadIsland #Landscape #LandscapePhotography #Photography #LongDistanceObservations #OlympusEM5 #CanonFD #500mm

Met another real in life person from mastodon. So at least some of you are not Russian bots. 👾

Great ride. Great blockers keeping the ride safe. I enjoyed being able to yell at folks who were double parked (the theme of the ride).

A (really terrible) photo of one of the more interesting bikes.

@SnoopJ @criticalmass #BostonMA #BikeTooer #criticalmass

#Boston #PSA: There's a free showing of the #Wicked movie tomorrow, September 26, starting at dusk, at the Boston Common Parade Ground, 38 Beacon Street. The pre-party starts at 5:30pm, with free popcorn while supplies last. It's an amazing movie, so if you haven't seen it, this is your chance! Or what the heck, if you've seen it, this is your chance to see it again.
The ground may still be a bit damp from all the rain, so maybe bring something waterproof to sit on. 😉
#BostonMA #movies

I was so happy to hear that #MichelleWu would be running on the ballot unopposed in November that I let out a great big Wu-hoo!
I'm very much in favor of incumbents defending their positions against worthy challengers, but (a) Wu already did that in the preliminary election and (b) IMO there were no worthy challengers this year. I'd rather see her running unopposed then running against someone shitty.
#politics #USPol #MAPol #BosPoli #Boston #BostonMA
https://www.wcvb.com/article/boston-mayor-wu-unopposed-november-election/68007633

City of Boston launches free vaccine clinics in neighborhoods

News article
https://www.dotnews.com/2025/city-boston-launched-free-vaccine-clinics-today

Clinic locations
https://www.boston.gov/government/cabinets/boston-public-health-commission/free-vaccine-clinics-boston

#BostonMA #covid #shots #vaccines

I recently posted that my wife and I were ceasing donations to the #Boston #Eruv until they removed "We support Israel!" from their website.
They responded today: "I made the necessary edits to the website. Hopefully, our mutually beneficial arrangement of having a Community Eruv and having you support it as you have for many years can continue."
I'm pleased. This is honestly not what I expected.
Just a reminder that speaking up _can_ make a difference!
#Israel #genocide #BostonMA #JewishBoston

I'm behind on #TechIsShitDispatch, but today you get a quick special edition because I am so annoyed by this particular shittiness.
Today is trash/recycling pickup day for us in the city of #Boston. Our recycling barrel disappeared during pickup. It was already cracked and very beat up after many years of use, so my guess is it finally disintegrated when the robot arm was banging it against the truck today and they took it away with the rest of the recycling.
#BostonMA #CivicTech
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For my #massachusetts and #boston #BostonMA friends - follow the link for a great deal with a local heritage grain CSA. Lots of heritage varieties of grains, flour, beans, and rice shares. I've been a member for 4+ years now - highly recommend!

Hit the link for a 10% discount - https://localgrain.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2ed7903e0986da9ced8d7081a&id=1c2807ab9b&e=633a1e3bdb

My wife and I have happily supported the #Boston #Eruv for many years.¹
They put up a "We support Israel" logo on their website in October 2023 and haven't taken it down since.
I just emailed them that we won't donate again until they stop publicly supporting #Israel.
It's long past time for Jews with a conscience to tell Jewish institutions they're associated with that they're all done putting up with supporting #genocide.
[UPDATE: They took it down!]
#Gaza #Palestine #BostonMA #JewishBoston