Photo of the Day, November 24, 2009: Hook, Line, and Sinker
Photo of the Day, November 25, 2009: Boston as seen from the harbor
Cheap Eats: Burtons Grill
Sports Redux: Every Minute Counts
Tuesday Happenings
Um, because we dropped the ball when we should have been telling you about the upcoming Boston Winter Festival, in which the City's Parks Department teams up with various Vermont ski mountains and Toyota to put lots of fake snow on the Common and provide free snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and other stuff. Lodrina, of course, knew this and helpfully sent us an excerpt from the Boston.com story.
Maybe Lodrina is a sneaky marketing agent of the Vermont ski mountains, which are bankrolling the affair to remind us city-dwellers that through modern science, they can make snow on mountains even when snow doesn't fall from the sky, but no matter - we should have mentioned it. Adam at UniversalHub did, showing us up as he frequently does. Of course, it's supposed to snow for real on Sunday, showing the whole snowmaking business up, but whatever. If you can't wait till Sunday to frolic in the real snow, the Common will be fake-snowy and full of wintry activities tomorrow from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
There probably won't be a frozen wasteland like the one shown in this photo, taken after last winter's big blizzard, but there will be snow on the Common.
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There is a certain weirdness to Vermont blowing snow on the Boston Common when, it seems, this year Boston had more snow than a lot of places in Vermont.
Not to say it isn't gorgeous here, and not to say the idea of snuggling up in front of a Vermont castings gas stove or a woodburning fireplace isn't a terrific way to spend a cold, or even cool, winter weekend, but here in southern Vermont we've had less than half the snow we normally expect this time of year, and some days half of our meadow -- part of a groomed cross-country ski trail -- is covered in:
GRASS.