Frank Kosiba watched the storm roll in from his deck in South Boston.
Elsie Kenyon, meanwhile, got to see both ends of the rainbow from the Longfellow Bridge: Read more.
Beacon Hill
By adamg - 6/8/15 - 7:36 am
A concerned citizen reports a nefarious practice:
People from outside neighborhood are bringing rubbish and paper products on Sunday for Monday pick up.
By adamg - 6/6/15 - 10:39 am
Chopper over Chelsea. Photo by Andrew Teman.
A helicopter is flying low and in circles over the area this morning. It could be a federal radiation chopper, or it could be a training exercise by the FBI and State Police. Read more.
By adamg - 6/1/15 - 10:30 am
It's part of the annual first-Monday-in-June change of command for the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.
By adamg - 5/29/15 - 3:02 pm
A Beacon Hill resident forwards this shot of a note on a pole on one of the neighborhood's historic streets this morning - about six doors down from yesterday's space saver.
And here's what the mess looked like: Read more.
By adamg - 5/28/15 - 6:59 pm
Ryan Meador watched the clouds moving over the Charles without doing much more than looking menacing, around 6:20 p.m.
By adamg - 5/28/15 - 11:52 am
Sure, there's still snow in South Boston, but Andy Santos thinks a certain Beacon Hill resident needs a reminder winter officially ended two months ago.
By adamg - 5/22/15 - 10:38 am
Lenny Rowe watched a Storrowing that wasn't shortly after 10 a.m. today. But don't worry, traffic-jam fans: Police still shut down the road to let the trucker back up and find another way to head towards 93.
By adamg - 5/21/15 - 10:12 am
Emily Weisberg shows us the annual flag plantings on the Common by the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund.
By adamg - 4/26/15 - 5:46 pm
Dan Santry snapped Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plane after it had landed at Logan. Abe starts a three-day US tour with dinner tonight at John and Teresa's place at Louisburg Square. His itinerary also includes a speech at the Kennedy School across the river and a trip down to DC for a speech before Congress.
By adamg - 4/24/15 - 5:14 pm
Rachel Anne Miller watched as boaters rushed to a capsized sailboat on the Charles this afternoon and helped right it.
By adamg - 4/16/15 - 4:51 pm
Interaction with a trooper at Charles Circle on Tuesday.
Via Boston Reddit.
By adamg - 4/10/15 - 11:10 am
UPDATE: Delvin Dixon, 40, of Charlestown, was arraigned on a charge of vandalism this afternoon. He was released on personal recognizance, but ordered to stay away from the Common until his case is resolved, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.
Somebody with a less than reverential view towards the past - not to mention Matthew Broderick - snapped off Robert Gould Shaw's sword from the 54th Massachusetts memorial across from the State House this morning.
By adamg - 4/7/15 - 10:13 am
Given the sort of thing that's been happening even here in our quiet little cubbie of the universe, you might be interested in a Ford Hall Forum discussion next week on Vicious Anonymity.
By adamg - 4/5/15 - 10:45 pm
617 Images photographed Mrs. Mallard and her ducklings in Easter bonnets today.
By adamg - 3/27/15 - 1:35 pm
JC Considine spotted workers installing the carousel by the Frog Pond on the Common today.
By adamg - 3/27/15 - 10:12 am
State officials report contractors will begin prepping the Longfellow Bridge on Saturday to remove the two remaining towers as part of the overall bridge reconstruction project.
Don't worry, seasoning fans: The state says, as with the other two towers - and unlike that decorative railing a few years back - the towers will be put into storage so they can be replaced once the bulk of the repairs to the bridge and the realignment of the traffic/bicycle/pedestrian lanes is finished.
