Out and About, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

This sculpture is on the Greenway with the InterContinental Boston in the background. 

My wander today was focused on the North End neighborhood of Boston but, it began where I parked at Post Office Square, then along the Greenway, then zig-zagging through many of the North End streets, then back by The Old State House, and thence via Congress Street back to the starting point - about 11,000 steps later. It was in the mid-30's F but the wind was mild, the sun was shining, and it was a good day to be out and about in an always delightful city - Boston. 

Always a favorite view, the Custom House tower and the French-looking turreted buildings in the foreground - feels like Paris - with a Boston accent.

One of the many Italian restaurants in the North End neighborhood.

Dogs often wear coats here in the winter.

The Paul Revere statue shadowed in the foreground.

A weeping copper-clad and brick building.

Another Italian restaurant.

A typical street scene in the North End.  And no, I do not like the tacky plastic advertisement banner.

A hat shop - a step back in time.

Another Italian restaurant - I don't know what the armor outside means.

A cigar store, Mike's Pastry shop, and shorts in the winter.

Walking in North Square, and just down the street........

.....that's Paul Revere's house on the left.

Another Italian restaurant.

Modern Pastry and Mike's Pastry are two of the more popular sweet shops in the neighborhood.

Heading back through the greenway.

The Freedom Trail winds for about three miles through historic sites in Boston and Charlestown.

The Old State House (built in 1713) from whose balcony the Declaration of Independence was first read to the Boston citizenry in 1776. Every year on July 4th it is read again from there.

Towering just down the street from the Old State House.