My room was the 8th floor on the corner, two down from the top left.
They turned one of the old computer rooms into a mailroom - not in the basement any more.
Some students signing in. It was Family Weekend at Emerson.
Ouch.
George Washington still guards the Boston Public Gardens, though his pedestal is getting a facelift.
Three more new additions to the Boston Skyline
The Duck Tours still glide the roads and harbor. But quacking has been banned on Newbury Street. Seriously, no quacking.
Sunset came calmly on a fall day.
It was in the fifties, and the leaves were red, gold and brown.
Sunset down Marlboro Street.
Mother and Son cross the Arthur Fiedler footbridge as I head for the Charles River.
I used to watch free concerts here from my dorm room window. Saw Jesse Jackson speak, Arlo Guthrie, Eddie Money; Christopher Reeve a week before his paralyzing accident.
The Army has posted artillery permanently beside the Hatch Shell. They claim it's to use in the 1812 overture every 4th of July.
But everybody knows it's to keep us safe from Cambridge. Invaders from Harvard, MIT.
MIT pranksters got through security again - a jolly roger on the dome this year.
The old Emerson Dock has evidently been abandoned. They took the fence down and are just letting it fall apart.
Didn't stop an Emerson student film from shooting on it, though.
Geese at sunset.
Ducks that don't mind the cold.
Swans that thrive in the chill.
Arthur Fiedler was the former conductor of the Boston Pops. He has the weirdest memorial statue in all of Boston.
Layer upon layer of individually shaved concrete plates make up his face.
Sailboats on the Charles River.
Sometimes I miss Boston.
Sometimes I miss the sunsets over the Charles.
So many memories made at her banks.
So many golden sunsets watched from just this spot.
This was once my home.
But home is where you make it, and I live elsewhere now.
Maybe someday, if I'm lucky, it will be my home again.
Night falls over Boston. It is Friday, so the streets are humming.
New construction on Charles Street near the Commons.
The Chinese corner store at Boylston and Tremont is now a Starbucks.
The scary old adult movie theater has changed a bit too...
There's a giant movie theater on Tremont Street now...
... Just four doors down from Emerson College's purple flag.
The city sleeps, and I am glad to have seen her again.