My Sixtieth Birthday, Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts

Donna has been asking all summer to go on the Swan Boats; her church is at the top of Boston Common and the Public Garden is at the bottom, so after lunch we went for my Sixtieth Birthday. Donna is Sixty Two. She had to go into the Ritz Carlton for a minute, so I photographed one of its paintings. The hotel was built in 1927. The Swan Boats, or the Hydrocycle rather, was originally powered by the bicycle and pedalled across the water when introduced in the late nineteenth century.

photo: Scott Lord