Olmsted Park

Furious driver pursues bicyclist through Olmsted Park

JohnAKeith — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:18:00 +0000

Neal Simpson, editor of the Brookline Patch hyperlocal site, scoops the major media sites (apparently) with a story about a driver who was so pissed off with a bicyclist (who he accused of damaging his car) that he tried to run him down by driving through part of the Olmsted Park.

Police say Robert Nicosia, 66, sped through the park from the Jamaicaway to Pond Avenue, driving over grass and flower beds and weaving through trees at a time when the park was filled with people enjoying the warm Saturday afternoon.

A witness estimated the driver's speed at "30 to 40 miles per hour".

The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Photo courtesy of Bikeable, Wikimedia.org, used under Creative Commons license

Slime molds ooze among us

adamg — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:26:01 +0000

The Urban Pantheist appreciates and photographs Stemonitis axifera in Olmsted Park:

... These animal-like organisms are similar (to concieve in our minds) to colonial amobae, swarming masses of plasma, thousands of cells without membranes grouped together in a gooey mobile soup. This plasma stage crawls and eats, usually sweeping across wet dead wood, capturing and consuming mircroorganisms. When their microhabitat dries up, the plasma collects itself into fungus-like fruiting bodies that package up spores to be carried away on the air in order to grow a new slime mold in greener pastures, as it were. ...

Olmsted Park photos

adamg — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:22:56 +0000

The Urban Pantheist posts photos from a trek through the Emerald Necklace's Olmsted Park.