Retro style poster

Reflecting pool

Odd things in shops

A few oddities from last weekend.

Bacon truck!

Im obsessed with all these food trucks in Boston, this one is just so cute!

Raindrops keep falling on my head

I thought this rain shield was pretty interesting when I passed it in southie.

More flowers

A few others that I sadly didn't use.

Flowers

For our final viz comm project we had to communicate spring, so I took hundreds of photos of flowers, these are a few of my favorites:

Boston at night

I suck at updating

Sorry.

As seen on the T

Zoo trip

Dwarf crocodile 

Horn-billed parrot

Ring tailed lemurs 

African silver backed gorilla 

A few days back my class took a trip over to the franklin park zoo to draw a animals and take photos for a project that we're doing. These are a few of the ones I took. 

Street art and bar hopping

So, being the unresponsible student I am, I'm out bar hopping in Boston for the first time since moving here. We started the night at M.J. O'Conners, an Irish pub near boylston. 

First we found some street art:

I'll add to this as the night goes. 

I saw a heron!

Walking home from class! I was so excited! Of course the light blew as soon as I got my phone out so the light was awful. I wish I could have gotten a better photo.

This is the first heron I've seen here and I nearly missed it with the chill. My eyes were all watery. Hopefully I can catch one in the midlight at some point or at least while there is more light.

But for now:

I'm noticing a trend here

I seem to be taking lots of photos of trash cans.

I laughed at this one a lot, actually.

Continuing With My Coffee Theme

I do not mean to say that Boston even has the best coffee, I mean to say that I have had superior coffee in other places.

In all honesty, I find Boston's coffee scene a little bland and tasteless. So far my favorite coffee has been in Spain, and I don't mean at a single cafe or bar, anywhere I went the coffee was fantastic. It made me euphoric. I had coffee everywhere. In bars, the train station, bookshops, restaurants, little kiosks along the road. You literally could not go five feet without inhaling the scent of a cup being poured. I was happy to oblige. The best part was they didn't just give you a cup of coffee, they'd give you a cup of coffee and some adorable little sugar cubes, or a tiny cookie, or a tiny piece of delicately wrapped chocolate. It was beautiful, simple. I was in love.

The second best coffee I ever had was probably in New York at a bodega or in Ghent down in Virginia. The stuff in Ghent fits the Boston style more, its certainly more fancy, but it is pretty good, I'm not sure it beats the stuff at bodegas, I guess I'm a pretty simple girl in the end...

That being said, my new photo and newest coffee stop has been Wired Puppy on Newbury St. I've always stayed away just because I associate Newbury street with out of my price range at the moment, I am a college student after all, but I was really hungry and I liked their logo so I stopped in the other day and got a Vanilla Latté. SO GOOD! Why does no one talk about this place? It was pretty expensive, but the size was good, or it seemed big anyhow compared to Green T's, and it certainly tasted better(not that I dislike Green T's, I just wish it had more oomph). Plus the girl did a cute leaf on top even though I got a to go cup, which I thought was cool. Course, I didn't bring my phone or camera, but I took a photo of the graphics on the sleeve. Just a really bright, eye-catching design they made.

And as a bonus my cat being an attention hog: 

 I present Lord Fluffington, aka Kevin

Amendment to coffee post

Will soon be coming, I've recorded some thoughts, but I suspect they'd only make sense to me at the moment, so I'll transcribe them later. I was dwelling on what I said and realized that quite a bit of my meaning was lost simply due to word usage and facts that, although second nature to me as I've lived them, are not common knowledge. Unfortunately it will have to wait until this weekend or possibly even next week as I have quite a bit of homework piled up die to an illness this week.

Rendr Coffee

So yesterday I walked over to the coffee shop that many people have told me has "The BEST coffee in Boston!" And I'm really not convinced. It was okay, definitely nice to be out of the cold, and the service was oh, so friendly. I'll definitely go back, especially since it isn't far from either my school or my house. But the best? Ehhh. I hope not. I've certainly had better. One big difference I noticed is the amount of seating! Despite going at a peak time and at a popular cafe that also served food, I was still able to grab a table for myself, so for once I had my coffee served in house style, meaning gigantic mug. They even did some nifty coffee art on top. I had a Vanilla Latte, but then I wished I'd gotten a hazelnut latte, since I'd heard they were really good, but I panicked. Like usual.

Sorry there hasn't been much activity lately, but my goal when I started this was at least once a week. You can't force beauty every day after all... Now to go draw cubes until I want to die.

School Graffiti

They washed this off the trashcan in front of Annex Central. I always enjoyed seeing this on my way to class.

I don't know who painted this originally, but it certainly lasted quite a while.

Purple Lights

I think I took this out on Boylston St, but it may've been elsewhere. I walk around a lot.

It was below street level, so all you saw while walking by was a faint purple glow. I thought it was fairly interesting, especially with how the lights didn't appear to be a garland, rather made into the tree, each one given a slight flower shape.