Georges Island in Boston

    Hi everyone.  It's already Friday again.  Today I am linking up some photos from my Boston adventure a few weeks ago. FYI- This is a longer post with lots of photos. I'll be linking  up to Nicole's Friday Face Off and also to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

  You may remember that my trip into Boston was because it was free ferry day out to Georges Island which is run by both the National Park Service and Massachusetts State Parks. None of us knew this was happening until my daughter got an email at work telling her about it, and so we thought we'd take advantage of it. You may also remember when my daughter got the tickets she ended up with noontime tickets. Sadly the day clouded in by the afternoon, but still, the clouds and the rain that came are all just part of the story.

   But first, we had to get to the island on the ferry which took about 45 minutes. One spot the ferry passed was Logan International Airport. It was fun watching the planes taking off and landing.

  I imagine most of them were going someplace domestic, but it's fun to  wonder about.

 Here are a few other views in the harbor.

  And then we arrived at the dock and  were off to see the fort.

     Here's my  clearest face photo for Friday Face Off. It's my husband up in front of the fort. 

   Fort Warren was built starting in the 1830's and then finished in 1861.  It served a defensive role starting in the US Civil War (1861-1865)  right up until it was decommissioned after World War Two. During the Civil War, Boston was never in danger of getting attacked, so the fort served as a prison for Confederate (Southern) prisoners including the Vice President of the Confederacy.

    You can walk  central parade ground inside of the fort: you can walk on the outer perimeter of the fort, and you can walk along the "top" of the fort. Most of the inside rooms are closed off, however there was a nice little museum all about the fort at the entrance.

    I guess I had more back photos than faces this week. 😉

   Some of the best views were walking along the top  of the fort and looking out into Boston Harbor.

  I was also having fun with my camera that day, and I snapped a few other photos while walking around the fort.

   That wraps up my trip to Boston that day. By the time we got home it was raining, and we were tired. It was really fun to spend a day in the city though and a nice adventure to also visit the fort, as it was a new place for me.

   And if you're interested in reading more about Fort Warren, you can check out this National Park website: Fort Warren and if you are interested in reading about Georges Island, you can read about it here: Georges Island. Both stories are interesting.

   Wishing you a great rest of your Friday and start to your weekend. 

   

It's Thursday

    Hi everyone. Happy Thursday. We have some rain arriving today, but otherwise it's been a gorgeous weather week so far. 

     I'll start today's post with another journal page for Matilde's Houses and Buildings challenge at Art Journal Journey.

   This page is in my Dina Wakely ledger journal, so all the writing in the background was already there. I started by taking a stencil that had some wet stencil paste on it and cleaning it off with a wet baby-wipe onto my page. Once dry, I did a bit of fussy cutting. I also used some stickers (from Stamperia and Ciao Bella) and punch out images. Before I added the old VW onto the page, I used black paint to make the road. I decided not to add any road markings to it because 1) it would make the page too busy and 2) because of the car you can tell what it is. 

   After I arranged the main images, I added a couple of fake paper postage stamps (49 and Market) as well as a 49 and Market pre-printed tag. I added the string to the left side. I also stamped some postmarks using stamps I have in my stash.

  I also have a tag today for Lynn's Add Some Text challenge over at Tag Along (and ATCs too).

   I started with this wine colored paper that had the white writing all over it. I cut it with an AALL & Create die. In the same die set was the one for the backing layer. I cut this sheet out of tag stock and then I stamped a bit of writing on it using that backing page from an old set by Oxford Impressions (a long defunct company).   To finish off my tag I added an acetate image from 49 and Market,  a gold paper butterfly image, and another AALL & Create die cut.

   I outlined the edges of both background layers with a black pen. I added a bit for bling to butterfly. I stamped the word wings (a very old mounted stamp with no maker on it),  and I finally added these pink beads to the front. 

   And  to wrap up this post in case you aren't a paper art enthusiast, on one of my travels, when I went walking  on the road to my mother-in-law's house, I saw some cool shadows.

    You can see Mr. Pete was with me. Miss Maddie was spending the day at the vet having a glucose curve done to be sure her insulin levels hadn't changed for her diabetes.

    That's all for me today. Hope your week is going well. 

Garden Colors in June

    Hi everyone. Happy Wednesday. Hope your week is going well so far. 

    Last week I took another trip to my local botanical garden to see what was in bloom. Actually the whole place seemed to be in bloom.  There can never be a blossom overload, but this visit  was definitely getting close to maximum flower power.

    

   And next time I visit, all these fleeting  beauties will be replaced with other blooms.

   Have a great rest of your day.