By the time these carolers finished a song as they stood atop the new Franklin Street entrance to the T around 12:50 p.m., there was one person to applaud them.
Christmas
Girl Jo asks:
Anyone in Boston/surrounding area know any stores that stock Lagavulin 16 Year Single Malt? Holiday gift needed!
Benzo Amore got on the Orange Line at Downtown Crossing with Nonplussed Ol' St. Nick:
He says he knows when brakes are squeaking, when you are late.
Mark Novak knows it's the Christmas season when Community Boating lights up its Christmas sailboat along the Esplanade.
Lauren Maloney slowed on Adams Street, near Victory Road, in Dorchester tonight to take in Hoa Nguyen's annual Christmas-lightaganza.
I get treated like Ebenezer Scrooge at holiday time. After all, there is no investment advisor in Boston’s Enchanted Village. But rather than admonish my readers to rein in spending, I’m recommending you treat yourself this season.
Santa and the mayor came to Adams Park in Roslindale Square today to help residents light up the neighborhood Christmas tree. Read more.
With exterior renovations finished on the Flour and Grain Exchange building on the Greenway, owner Related Beal has brought back the giant red bow that has long adorned it during the holiday season. Jed Hresko snapped this photo while watching workers install it.
Last year:
Just a tiny bow.
The CBC reports the province treats the tree not just as thanks, but as tourism and seafood promotion. And that includes paying WCVB $75,000 to broadcast the tree getting lit on the Common each year - and $41,000 to the city of Boston.
WSRS, way up there on the FM dial, way out there in Worcester, is now pumping out Christmas music, Tyler reports.
The CBC reports this year's gift from Nova Scotia - to honor the aid Boston sent after the Halifax harbor explosion in 1917 - will be the first from Cape Breton.
The 14-metre white spruce will be taken from Crown-owned land close to the Waycobah First Nation.
The Nov. 15 tree-cutting will feature a drum group from Waycobah as well as a fiddler and bagpiper.
Daniel Sullivan was not quite ready for the Christmas spirit when he entered the Stoughton BJ's.
Jessica Burko has six words for what she saw in the Dedham A.C. Moore today:
No no no no no no.
Mayor Curley, his wife Mary and son Francis X. celebrate Christmas.
John White notes:
A somewhat tragic figure, his father wanted him to be a pol; he wanted to be a Jesuit.
From the BPL's Leslie Jones collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
Just because we don't have any snow doesn't mean you can't still take magical seasonal photos, as Renee shows us.
Neil the roving UHub photographer shows us how they celebrate the holiday in Hull (and he notes that those green thingies are windmill blades, not palm leaves).
Boston Dynamics, the company that gave us robot horses that fling cinder blocks, wishes you all a merry and non-nightmarish Christmas.
MassDOT has some new electronic messages for drivers today. Meg captured one of them (and here's another).
C. Carew admired the Christmas display in Thompson Square in Charlestown yesterday.