paw prints

These paw print was made in the mud, then froze.

Snowy Plants

More pretty scenes from the snowy day.

Christmas Tree

Quincy can take away your old Christmas trees via their DPW. All the residents need to do is leave the un-decorated tree out on the curb during the designated week and not have the tree covered in plastic. Here is one of the trees people have left for pickup. I thought it looked particularly pretty with the snow on it.

Snow on Sailor's Home Pond

Other than a storm in October, this winter has been pretty snowless. So, on Jan 10th when we woke up to see a light dusting of snow, I went out and took a few pictures. This is Sailor's Home Pond, all icy and snowy.

Tee hee

This picture was not made by me, this is of the city newsletter. I just added an arrow to show the funny part.

Once a week the city of Quincy sends out an email with the newsworthy items of the week. This week there was the mayor's inauguration. There also was a new group for family members of drug addicts called Learn to Cope that is starting Jan 10th. But, both those news articles together is quite funny.

Quincy Fair Mall - now

In November 2010 I blogged about what the Quincy Fair Mall looked like ->And now it is gone.... Here is the current update. 

There was a road created (the cars that you can see beyond the rubble are on the new road.). There was a big opening in October: Walter J Hannon Parkway opens

Now there is a easier connection to the expressway from Hancock Street. But, as you can see by the big pile of rubble, it still doesn't look finished. In fact, the view from the road is quite ugly. Hopefully it will look better by next year. There is also issues about traffic light timing -- it takes forever to get through there. The local paper wrote about it near Christmas: Trouble with Traffic

It was then changed, and Wicked Local Quincy checked a few days ago to see if the timing was fixed: Wicked Local goes down the road

On the "T"

This picture is on one of the forms of public transportation in my area, called the "T", short for MBTA, which is short for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. This is inside the Red Line train. The picture was taken in the middle of the day, but as you can tell, it was very cloudy and gloomy that day.

Parade

This picture is from the Thanksgiving parade (2011). It is a close up of one of the Clydesdale horses.

Pretty Sky

Clydesdale

Clydesdales from the Sunday, Quincy Thanksgiving Parade.

Parade

Here are some bagpipe players from the 58th Annual Quincy MA Thanksgiving Day parade. The weather was perfect for the parade. It was cold, but not too cold. It was nice and sunny so it was quite easy to see the parade as it was coming up the street. As always, I forgot to bring a chair, so we stood for quite a long time.

Here is a video of the parade from Wicked Local --

More parachuting

Here is one of the elves that landed on Saturday. They parachuted in and then said hi to all the kids. Then, they left on top of one of Quincy's fire engines.

Yesterday there was a big parade in Quincy. Santa was on top of the fire engine again. I'll be posting some pictures from the parade tomorrow.

Here comes Santa Claus

It was the Saturday after Thanksgiving so it was time for Santa to parachute into Quincy MA. Three elves and Santa masterfully landed in Pageant field and greeted the waiting crowd.

And now it is gone....

In May, I showed you a picture of what the Quincy Fair Mall used to look like. They finally demolished the mall. Kind of sad to look at now... There are still no movie theaters in Quincy. At one point it looked like the Wollaston Theater had a chance to start up again, but that fell apart. The Boston Globe has the latest info, but it doesn't look that good.

Help to the School System

South Coastal Bank gave $3000.00 to Beechwood Knoll school (in Quincy MA) to help with the "Totally Arts" program. This program initiates artistic programs and events that complement and enhance the activities of Beechwood Knoll's Art and instrumental programs. This includes Shakespeare, Photography, Sculpture, String Orchestra and much much more.

It is nice to be able to report money actually going into the schools. Lately all the news is about money being cut. Lets hope that other companies see what South Coastal Bank has done and decide to help out the schools too. Thanks South Coastal Bank!

Squirrel Run

The rain may have postponed the flag day parade and fireworks, but it was too late to cancel the Squirrel Run. The Squirrel Run, also known as the Jimmy Kennedy Memorial Run is a 5 mile run and 2.5 mile fitness walk to help the Angel Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to funding ALS research.


The memorial run is named for a lawyer and former North Quincy High School athlete who was afflicted with ALS. He died in 1997 at age 31. This was the 13th Squirrel Run.

Egret, again

The Egret came back yesterday.

Mid-Chirp

Korean War Veterans Memorial

Korean War Veterans Memorial in Quincy, on Hancock Street. This memorial is across the street from the World War II memorial in Merrymount Park.

Egret

On the day I saw the ducks, I decided to head over to Sailor's Home Pond to see if they eventually got there. While we were watching the ducks, this beautiful snow white egret decided to land.

This was a great day for bird spotting.