Tower Hill & Boston

Took a trip to Tower Hill while Melissa was visiting. As usual there were tons of beautiful flowers.

The center of the orange flower is very odd looking. If you click it for the full size picture, you can see the details better. It almost looks like...frog eggs or something. Creeps me out a little.

I think the cactus picture is my favorite....

Though the picture of Mel is definitely a close second!

We also spent a day in Boston (and ended up walking 8 miles!) to check out some book stores and do some general shopping. We went to three book stores, and they were all pretty awesome. The first was Brattle Book Shop, which is my favorite. It's got an outdoor section, as well as three floors (though we didn't go to the third floor because it's the rare book room and you have to ask to be let up there and such). Then we went to both Commonwealth Books (they have two locations), one of which is considerably larger than the other.

We also stopped at this amazing little cafe called The Thinking Cup, on Tremont Street and had AMAZING sandwiches and desserts and I definitely want to go back there someday.

This was an illustration inside a book that I liked.

These doors were in the corner of Brattle's outside alley. There seemed to be a whole pile of painted ones. Not sure what they're for, but they're neat!

Dusty the cat! She(?) lives in the larger of the Commonwealth Books, and she's very soft and friendly. Probably I spent more time petting her than actually looking at books....I'm definitely going through cat withdrawals.

Storm clouds! About the time that we got back to Alewife and were ready to drive home, there were tornado warnings all around the area. We ended up being stuck in the parking garage for two hours (no joke!) because it was rush hour, so by the time we left we were driving home through the storm. The sky was really beautiful at times though.