An Ant and Ant Hills?

Okay, I know this little guy on the blossom is an ant but I'm not sure if these mounds, below, are ant hills or home to some larger insect. They took a beating after a heavy rain storm early this morning but I bet Ms. Marley will still be able to tell me what crawls in and out of those holes.

Vertical Views

I spend so much time photographing the world from a horizontal viewpoint that the past couple days I've looked around the yard and turned my camera vertically. The rosemary bush is not far from the front door and full of blossoms. The palm-looking leaves arranged themselves like this on the ground out back as did the camellias in various stages of decay. All I did was look down and get my feet out of the way.

One More Look at Boston

I'll return to my Georgia adventures but I found a few more iPhone photos from my visit to Boston as 2011 turned into 2012.

Above: A good sign on a Beacon Hill store.
Right: The John Hancock Building towers over Trinity Church.
Below: Jess at work in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel's Asana.

Wrinkled Laundry

The big triangular table in the kitchen is a great spot for folding laundry right out of the dryer. The trick is getting to the laundry before Olive jumps in for a nap. This rarely happens because she comes running whenever the dryer door opens.

Below, Jeffrey decides to try napping on Olive who is once again napping on warm laundry. See her?

Childhood House

Over the holidays I visited the house where I was born in Cambridge, MA. It looked very much the same as I remember a long time ago. The house was then the parsonage for the Harvard Epworth United Methodist Church, where my dad was minister. He wrote sermons while also writing his doctoral dissertation at Boston University and parenting three little kids. Impressive - and also a tribute to my mom, who was a force.

So my childhood home has become the Walter Lippman House and is now home to the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.