The August Garden, the August Common

September has arrived, but August was glorious. Here are late summer moments captured in the Public Garden or Common, all taken by the iphone, during my mornings before work. 

Sunday Reflections

This Sunday morning I walked from the apartment to Olmsted Park yet again. This time I walked all the way around Jamaica Pond, back through Olmsted to past Brookline Village and Coolidge Corner until I reached my stretch of Comm Ave. I have a feeling that this will be a new ritual to my weekends-forgive the repetition of posts, but the water that filled these parks was so lovely and fraught with the magic of reflections that I couldn't help but snap these photographs on my iphone and want to share them. So here they are. 

Olmsted Park

The day was still quite young on Sunday morning when I made my way to Olmsted Park, about two miles from my new abode and easily accessible by the 66 bus. I ached for greenery on such a beautiful, near summer morning and found my peace nearly as soon as I began walking the path along the edge of Leverett Pond. It was still early enough that the trail could almost be called my own, but that soon changed as the sun climbed the sky. I had never set foot even near Olmsted Park before this weekend and was shocked at the beauty I found waiting for me. I miss the woods and mountains of Acadia, but this will more than do for life in a city. Olmsted Park, established in 1891, is one of the nine parks that make up the Emerald Necklace, a series of green spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. If I wanted, I could walk all the way to Arnold Arboretum if I so chose, but this weekend, I only walked to Jamaica Pond and then nearly all the way back to my apartment. I'm grateful, that this space is so close to where I now live and so easily reachable. I can hear the T come and go from my apartment bedroom, which has its own charm, but I miss time spent in nature, so this will certainly, certainly do. 

The Common and the Garden

It's a true pleasure-and privilege-to work so close to the Common and the Public Gardens. These days the sun shines bright and the young flowers are so eager for our attention, which I am all too happy to give during a lunch stroll-

These pictures are a bit misleading, for the Common and Gardens are packed with throngs of people enjoying their gifts. Tulips abound alongside the flowering crabapple trees. Artists work en plein air, tourists stop for their photographs and musicians slowly sing their songs for both.