Boston, Massachusetts, USA

It is early April in Boston. The days are longer, the temperatures are rising, and soon the flowers and trees will be budding and blossoming.  Today it seems that the whole city has come out to play on this Sunday morning with temperatures reaching the low 60's.

The golden dome of the Massachusetts State House tops the area of downtown Boston known as Beacon Hill. In the center distance is the Charles River, Beacon Street to the left, and the Prudential Building in the left distance.

The Boston Common, dating from 1634 and encompasing 50 acres of land, is the oldest city park in the United States.  The grass is greening but the trees are just showing the hint of Spring and Summer to come. (And the Hancock building in the distance isn't really blue).

One of the many brick townhouses on Beacon Hill, this extraordinary exterior trim is all copper and marks a time of exceptional craftsmanship seldom created today. 

On perhaps the most photographed street in Boston, Acorn Street, the Plymouth Digital Photographers Club enjoys the day doing what they do best - taking pictures!

Where else but Boston would one find a solid brass lobster door knocker?

All that walking and photographing required pizza at Figs Restaurant on Charles Street before continuing to the Public Garden to finish the day.

And if you think Boston is only full of stuffy, conservative, New Englanders - you'd be wrong - some folks are willing to serve as substitute bridge anchor posts.

For those of us "of a certain age,"  we remember in 1968 the Scottish singer Donovan sang a song called "the Hurdy Gurdy Man."  Well, this is in fact, a man playing a Hurdy Gurdy - go figure.

And not to be outdone by the Hurdy Gurdy man, nor intimidated by the bronze statue of Edward Everett Hale, an icon of American history, here's a one man band entertaining the passersby on a Spring day.