boston. 1/14 and 1/15.

umbrellas. i never owned one until a moved here. now they are such a constant presence in my life. and when it rains, they come out in force, not just being carried over people heads, or under their arms, but stacked in carts on street corners for sale, piled in bins at entrances to restaurants, scattered fully opened in order to dry in homes and offices, and somehow, most memorably, for me, in tatters and heaps and as shattered remnants of their former selves in gutters and on sidewalks and filling trashcans throughout the city. one day i will discover some ingenious use for this prolifery of interesting mechanisms, but for now, i'll enjoy the photograph of this installation of umbrellas that was probably instigated by some other similar line of eccentric reasoning.

beautiful kate, looking very much like she should be a character in some children's book, it was cold on this boston weekend. jason and i trekked up there, met kate and zach, wandered the town and bit, enjoyed an incredible meal of middle eastern cuisine and a tour of both harvard and mit. thanks again, kate and zach.

so i snapped this for kate. she rides the chinatown bus so often, 'i feel as if' she has spent a lot of time staring at this sight.