DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln

 This place is 8 miles from our house in a suburb named Lincoln.


































This person, DeCordava, wanted his house to be turned into a museum so they gutted the old house and made a modern museum.
















It's on a lake.  This lake was used as a source for ice.

Museum of Fine Arts

 This is Boston's most impressive museum.  They could have more than the Metropolitan in NYC.  I think they have just as much money.  They just built a 4-story "addition" that is huge.  The floors are by century.  The bottom floor is the 16th century, the next floor is 17th century, etc.  Each floor has period wallpaper and furnishings of that period.















































There are 4 restaurants.  This is one of them.













This is the oculus in the center dome.  The main building was finished in 1909.
















This is a Chihuly.  He's the glass artist from Tacoma.

















There's lots of sailing ships.  In fact, the Tall Ships are here right now.  They arrived in time for the 4th of July.











Guess who?
















This is an example of a room with period wallpaper, etc.













A nice day bed.

Harvard Natural History Museum

 On a very hot day (over 90) we decided to do an indoor event so we toured this museum.  It had all the normal stuff you would expect to find in this kind of museum altho everything was crammed in.  I wonder if they are planning to build another museum for this stuff? 

Braves vs. RedSox, Fenway

 On a beautiful Sunday afternoon we decided to attempt to get into Fenway which is always sold out.  We had agreed ahead of time that we would not spend more than $50 a ticket.  The minute we walked off the subway train we were met by scalpers who met our expectations with 2 tickets for a total of $90 so we were there before the national anthem.  The tickets were very close to the field (under the overhang).  Two-thirds of the seating is in the sun.  The Braves lost and neither Big Poppy nor Chipper played, but it was an enjoyable experience and we're glad we did it.

Provincetown, Cape Cod

 We specifically made this trip on a Wednesday to avoid the traffic.  The distance is only 128 miles.  However, we left @ 9 a.m. and arrived back at 5 p.m.  We only stayed about an hour out there.  Went for lunch.  It was ungodly hot.  We had hoped it could be cooler because it was on the water but not so.  Provincetown is the same size as Tybee, the population in the winter is also around 3,000.   A similar vibe as Tybee only many, many more gays.  Also, it's a working fishing village


There are beaches.













 This is a monument to the Pilgrims.

















You can take a high speed ferry from downtown Boston out here.  It costs $72 for one way.











Lots more restaurants and shopping areas than Tybee.

A first look at Harvard

 All of Harvard is surrounded by a black, wrought iron fence.  This is inside the "yard."  The entire place is overrun with tourists.  Tons of Chinese and all other parts of the world.






This is inside Memorial Hall.  There are tours of Harvard every morning @ 11 a.m.  We live just down the street from Harvard and Ed runs here a few times a week.








 The outside of Memorial Hall.












Outside the art museum.  Harvard is building a gigantic, new art museum that won't be finished until 2014.  In the meantime, there is only one art museum open (they had 3). 





I liked this staircase.









Outside the museum.







This is the Widener Library.  (Very famous.)