Rainbow from our apartment

Scott Lord on Film Scott Lord most recent Wednesday we took a boat ride down The Charles River from the Charles River Yacht Club to the Weld Boat House and back and had lunch there at the Charles River Yact Club. We go once a year passed the Citgo sign and Polaroid building and during other years there was a "master of ceremonies" who told the joke: How do you make a honeymoon salad? Lettuce Alone, No Dressing. I added : Cant elope tonight, Rain Dear, a pea souper. We in fact had beautiful weather.

A Jersey Girl in Downtown Boston

Donna and I were having lunch in Downtown Boston, the West End near Boston Garden at Jersey Mike's Sub Shop and I looked up and noticed they originated in Point Pleasant, New Jersey. Donna is from Tom's River, New Jersey where she went to highschool but her father was the principal at the high school in Point Pleasant. She thinks she would have been more popular had she gone to highschool there. Mike's Jersey Sub shop just opened recently in Downtown Boston and we hadn't been there before. Scott Lord Donna and I just celebrated our fourteenth anniversary and have lived together for fourteen years, near the West End of Boston, just over the River, in Cambridge, Massachusetts where we can see the Boston Garden and Boston Science Museum from the thirteenth floor.

Paul Revere on the 250th anniversary of the Midnight Ride and postscript

Please note that the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere occurred the day before The Shot Heard Round the World, as was its purpose. During 1772, Paul Revere had made church bells manufactured from copper and tin for several of the churches in Boston.

This is the view of Paul Revere's grave from inside the church, on Brimstone corner, a granary used to store gunpowder during the revolution. Donna is cataloging book donations in the library- I have lunch overlooking the graveyard. Today is Palm Sunday.

Postscript: To commemorate the 250th anniversay of Paul Revere's Ride, The White House noted that the ride was intended to communicate with Sam Adams and John Hancock- both patriots are buried next to Paul Revere and their graves can also be viewed from where I have lunch on Sundays. Today was a week day and Donna bought me brunch in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (We did in fact take part of Brattle Street home. The name of the national park is Longfellow House-Washington Headquarters, but evey time we pass it she asks if its the other yellow house right before it, but she remembers the rabits in the garden.)

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Silent Film This New England Primer bridged the "Gap" during the shift from Ecclesiastical Puritan to Patriotic Colonial.

Happy Birthday, Donna

Happy Birthday. Love, Scott

Donna will be right back to check out books, so will I

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Donna on Beacon Street, Brookline

The building was built in 1915. Donna and I had to wait for a half hour Scott Lord

Donna and I took an elevator with former Secretary of State Senator John Kerry

I greeted former Senator John Kerry in the elevator saying it was nice to see him again and that we had met twice- we hadn't, I had mistaken him for Thomas O'Neill III, whom we met when Donna's father and my father were still alive. I told Donna he was the senator and mentioned he went to Yale, to which he said "I did", but I kept thinking of the former Lieutenant Govenor for some reason. Senator Kerry said he knew I was talking about whom he knows as "Tommy". He gave me a salute of a raised arm to say nice to meet you. Donna's father was a high school principal and worked with Hubert Humphrey.

Donna's favorite downtown Boston orange juice and the adjacent former offices of Houghton Mifflin Company

A visit from Dr. Scott Sunquist, usually I greet Dr. Elaine Phillips between services

Dr. Sunquist smiled enthusiaticly when I showed him my copy of his student writing in the student magazine "Debarim" published by Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, of which he is now President. I asked him if there was always a methodology to Apologetics, to which he seemed to nod in the affirmative. His paper was on Arnobius of Sicca, who wrote "Against the Nations"., the methodology of Apologetics, and apparently the Astarte-Venus cult.

mother's day, I brought Donna tulips during the church service

I wanted to photograph the tulips I brought Donna during church- I had to run an errand and we are here during three church services- from outside looking into the church,but as you can tell, the reflection precludes it. The otherside of the building looks on to the adjacent churchyard with tulips on the graves of Ben Franklin's parents where I "reflect" every week (diligently) for those who have passed.

Sunday at the Church Library

Donna is shelving books.

For anyone interested in Ben Franklin, his parents are buried at the church. The graveyard was here before the church structure, which was a granary that held gunpowder during the revolution. The expression "fire and brimstone" came from our church, it being where the colonists stored gunpowder during the AMerican Revolution.

Donna’s Birthday, Dinner near the Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown Massachusetts

We were looking for a restaurant and the cab dispatch told us there was in fact one closer to our apartment than the one that had recently closed. For her birthday, she had a computer class, in which she was given a new computer, she lost twenty pounds and we celebrated by going to dinner when, after dinner, I looked up and noticed we were right near the Bunker Hill Monument, our having come from a different direction. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DONNA and I look forward to our thirteenth anniversary this summer.

Living on the thirteenth floor, I can see the monument, the entire monument, clearly from our living room, The Boston skyline has almost changed dramaticlly while we've been together. Evacuation Day in New York City is on November 25, 1783, and also marks the British departure. (Donna's father went to NYU) Happy St. Patrick's Day. ps. I ordered fish chowder for myself but she was hungary and couldn't wait for dinner, so I gave her mine untill my seafood came later, which was half the fun of an enjoyable evening- I was glad she liked dinner after our skipping lunch during a busy weekend.

Donna in library Valentine's Day

Donna is at her library desk as the church organ plays upstairs- this is a poster of the church from 1971

From a poster made during 1971, this may in fact be The Old North Church, the tallest building in America before 1809 when the Park Street Church was built, it then becoming the tallest. I belive both have clocks. I asked a member from M.I.T and he thought it was Park Street Church and it afforded me the chance to tell him that the Internet Archive hists all Dewey Decinal categories of out of print books by using keyword search, not just "Christianity", but also "Thermodynamics". She refers to it as her "antique desk". These are my photos from this morning when Donna was behind her desk.

photos: Scott Lord, I apologize for the lack of a telephoto lens.