Photos

Amy Wong was strolling through the Back Bay today when she spotted a lady walking her tortoise. Slowly. Very slowly.

Also see:
The tortoise in the South End.

Ed Hatfield came upon this scene downtown.

Copyright Ed Hatfield. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Last night, Jed Hresko followed a chalk line on Mass. Ave. near the Orange Line stop:

Patty Neal captured the view from State Street this morning.

UPDATE: Late this afternoon, Best Bees worked with city animal control to relocate the bees someplace better for them - and people.

You can't see the license plate of this car at Stoughton and Sumner streets because IT'S COVERED IN BEES. Live bees. Bees that are probably looking for a more permanent place to live. Like your attic. Photo by OffTheDot, who says:

Definitely live and buzzing! Seemed more into swarming than attacking. Stood on edge of swarm without incident (and no sudden movements).

When workers on the Hole restoration project took down the Christo wrapping on the old Burnham building last week, they revealed this plaintive message, still up there after all these years.

Meanwhile, on the back side of the remains of the Burnham buidling, you can see the engineers working on the project to build a 50+ story building on the site have no shortage of fire extinguishers:

ItalianInBoston watched the sun go down tonight.

The BPL has posted more train photos by Leslie Jones, including this one of a steam engine pulling out of South Station in 1937, and another one of a train leaving North Station sometime in the 1940s:

Chris Walton shows the Cathedral Church of St. Paul has installed its new pediment, the one designed by Donald Lipski.

The folks at the Boston City Archives have posted this photo of kids playing ball in 1978 Boston and wonder where. No, really, this time, they have no idea and are seeking suggestions.

When and where was this photo taken? From the Boston City Archives, natch. See it larger.

Holey moley.

Kelly photographed workers doing something at the Filene's Memorial Hole this morning.

Local man Adam Smith, currently teaching English to kindergarteners in Yangsan, South Korea, forwards this photo of himself and his Sox cap at a Hello Kitty cafe in Pusan.

Adding another country to Red Sox Nation!

Around 11 p.m., L. Stephens reported workers were repainting the Marathon finish line - something they normally do right after the race ends.

Justin reports he was in the Pru mall today and got curious when the courtyard would re-open. He says he took out his camera to take a photo of the "Closed" sign on one of the doors leading out when a security guard swooped down and told him that not only couldn't he take that photo, but he'd have to delete it.

She waited for me to delete. Huh?

SupperGuppy was on Boylston Street today when she noticed that while Chicken Man may be enigmatic, he's not unaware of current events.

It's hard to imagine how many miles of train tracks used to exist within Boston city limits (let alone how few will be left once Harvard gets around to ripping out the Allston yard). Here we see the train yard in front of Commonwealth Pier in South Boston, sometime shortly after World War I. Today, the pier is better known as the World Trade Center and the tracks have mostly been replaced by highway ramps, parking lots and surface roads. Nearby is Fan Pier, named for the way the train tracks there fanned out toward the water.

The Back Bay used to have its own large train yard - since replaced by the Prudential Center and the Massachusetts Turnpike:

Michal Skrzypek wonders what the cinnamon raisin d'etre is for the bagelful (and rollful) pickup he spotted this afternoon.

Lori Magno photographed work this morning to remove the shroud covering the remains of the Filene's building, as part of site preparation to build the new skyscraper atop the Hole.

Happy Arbor Day! In 1920, Leslie Jones photographed Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge digging a hole to plant a tree.

From the BPL Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.

A.P. Blake spotted what might be an American eel swimming up the Charles yesterday.

Meet the eels of the Charles River.

Matthew Ireland snapped the traffic on Boylston Street last night.

Also visiting Copley Square last night: Rhea Becker, who reports on the impromptu memorials that sprung up around the bombing sites:

[G]roups of people quietly huddled around one of the bombing sites; a woman painting an inspirational ‘Boston Strong’ message in a store window; and a large memorial (bouquets of flowers, stuffed animals, hand-drawn posters) that was taken off the street and placed on Copley Square for the public to view.

Copyright Matthew Ireland. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Southiegirl captured the scene on the Zakim this afternoon, when police stopped traffic as the Biden motorcade departed the memorial for MIT police officer Sean Collier.

Stephanie Giunta captured the crowd outside Marathon Sports at lunchtime, around the time a concert was going on inside the BPL in Copley Square.

To try to lure more people back, Mayor Menino announced this afternoon that meters will be free between Arlington Street and Mass. Ave. and adjacent to the Public Garden now through Sunday.

Gina Tomaine photographed the sneakers at the Copley Square memorial.