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Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

I visited the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site today. It’s well worth the trip if you’re at all interested in Olmsted himself (he was the designer of Central Park, Prospect Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace and countless other beautiful landscapes across America) or landscape architecture in general. The (free!) tour was very interesting and covers the interior and exterior of the site.

If you’re really interested, you can also check out their archives on flickr. 90,000 images from the archive!

At the Olmsted Hour At the Olmsted Hour

At the Olmsted Hour

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Around Boston: Congratulations to SRV

On the heels of my own visit, I’m pleased to see the new, Venetian style restaurant SRV win Best Italian category in Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston listing. We really enjoyed our recent visit. I can’t say it made me forget I was in Boston (my recent trip to Venezia is still to fresh in my mind) but our meals were phenomenal, the menu is true to Venice (see the squid ink risotto with cuttlefish and tuna belly in saor pictured below) and the all Italian wine list was top notch. Not pictured is the baby octopus from the Cicchetti menu, which was potentially the best thing I had all night.

We’ll be going again, for sure.

Tuna in saor

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Squid ink up in here

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This is on the Street Art Tour- One of the Most Visible Pieces of Graffiti/Street Art in Boston History

Where are U now

This was one of the Justin Bieber “reveals his track listing in graffiti/street art commissions around the world” pieces. KEM5 and DEME5 did the work and, in addition to being able to do one of the most seen pieces in Boston history, I’ve always hoped they made a pile of cash for the work. Those guys are really good.

As for the visibility of this versus other pieces, I imagine that more people saw the Giant of Boston in person, but the Bieber piece would have gotten in front of a hell of a lot of fans in a very short time on Twitter/Instagram/Facebook.

os gemeos giant and seagull

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