Brian Corr

#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025 :: We celebrated with #resistance & #resilience! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸
(Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bicycle in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common…)

#BostonPride #NoKings #PrideMonth #Boston

#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025
We celebrate with #resistance & #resilience
(Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bike in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common)

CANCELLED DUE TO FORECASTED THUNDERSTORMS:
Sadly, as a result of the anticipated thunder and lightning storms, the tents cannot be occupied, and therefore, the 2025 Festival has been CANCELLED for the first time ever. Thanks to all for their support, enthusiasm, and planned participation!

Join Greater Boston’s largest & most popular outdoor/indoor dance event: our 15th annual Dance for World Community Festival in Harvard Sq on 6/7. It’s a free, public, all-day event featuring performances and classes from 60+ local dance companies! Visit www.danceforworldcommunity.org/festival

Rhododendrons blooming wildly in June!

“I found myself in JUMBO, a large collection of local alternative rockers and others who played barely-recognizable versions of the most ubiquitous circus tunes…and showed how a big group with a thoroughly playful attitude can be a bulwark against both musical dissonance and a fear of wrong notes.”

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Strength to Love,” 1963.
#MLKDay

Today — January 6 — both Canada and the United States take steps to install their new leaders — in very different ways!
#electoraldemocracy #canadianpolitics #uspolitics #january6

Photos from the last walk in the woods for 2024…
#SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #December31

A foggy winter day in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the last Sunday of 2024 :: #SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #nofilter #CambMA

Remembering Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) :: poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-mo... #poetry #nikkigiovanni

Finally, the light is that perfect winter mid-snowfall light that’s bright and diffuse and also gray at the same time, with the snowflakes coming down!

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

Also, in this photo you can see the small hemlock trees (which are taller than me) that have been planted in between to replace the ones lost in this magnificent double allée of trees for across left and right.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

Their spread is both driven by climate change and may also accelerate it (yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/inva...)

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

Hemlock Hill History, Management and Research Ecological History Management and Research In 1997, the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) was discovered on the Arnold Arboretum’s Hemlock Hill. This tiny insect, a relative of the aphid, f...

This is just as many people have seen happen throughout New England and the Northeast, including on Hemlock Hill in the Arnold Arboretum (arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/hemlo...).

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

The invasive hemlock woody adelgid (www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/i...) is attacking them.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

Then these particular trees in Belmont, MA are part of the Pine Allée at the top of Belmont Hill: they have both survived for almost 120 years — and are also dying because of climate change (belmontonian.com/belmont/larg...).

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography

Next, I almost didn’t take this photo because I wasn’t sure that I wanted the people in it — but they make the photograph because they provide scale for the mighty Hemlock trees towering literally 100 feet above them.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlocks #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

A Picture Says a Thousand Words: a brief anatomy of a spontaneous photograph. There’s so much going on in this photograph! First, it’s unedited, uncropped, and it’s not using a telephoto lens or a digital zoom — it’s just a photo taken spontaneously with my iPhone.
#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #photograph

Scenes from today’s walk in Somerville and Cambridge :: #SeeTheBeauty #Camberville #flowers

A chilly, windy, and beautiful fall-becoming-winter afternoon…
#SeeTheBeauty

On this rainy #December evening, I’m oddly delighted that my iPhone made this video from some of my best flower photos all by itself, and just offered it to me… Check it out!
#SeeTheBeauty of #flowers by #Siri & me :-)

In an alternate universe, we would all have been listening to The Turkees…
#turkeysofcambridge #beatles

As seen this afternoon in Somerville and Cambridge during a nice walk on a beautiful December day….
#SeeTheBeauty #Camberville

Winter is a-coming :: Scenes from the heart of Cambridge, Mass. #SeeTheBeauty #CambMA

#ReadThis
“…The oligarchs bring to our fascism its libertarian entry point: they preach that government is the source of all evil. As we yield to that logic, the hydrocarbon oligarchs drill away at the earth and the digital oligarchs at our minds. A weakened government can control neither….”

First hints of snow this winter… ❄️
#SeeTheBeauty #CambMASnow #NewEnglandWinter

Evening comes so early this time of year…
#SeeTheBeauty #December #EveningLight

“…Thanksgiving can be a tender and challenging day when you’re grieving. For many of us, it’s a time filled with traditions and togetherness, but it’s also when the absence of a loved one can feel most profound…”
— Heather Stang :: heatherstang.com/missing-your...
#Thanksgiving #mindfulness

On this #Thanksgiving Day, I’m remembering all of the reminders to celebrate that exist in this broken and beautiful world….
#SeeTheBeauty #Resilience