The Babson Boulders of Dogtown

Roger Babson had a problem. His family thought he was crazy or felonious or both.  He had started to carve mottoes in to the boulders which lay in the fields near the long abandoned settlement of Dogtown close to his home in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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Babson was later to write in his autobiography: My family says that I am defacing the boulders and disgracing the family with these inscriptions, but the work gives me a lot of satisfaction, fresh air, exercise and sunshine. I am really trying to write a simple book with words carved in stone instead of printed paper. Besides, when on Dogtown common, I revert to a boyhood which I once enjoyed when driving cows there many years ago.

Ring of Leaves

Are the autumn leaves falling where you are? In Boston, Massachusetts this time of year is a riot of color as trees shed their leaves in a myriad shower or red, gold and green. Someone, perhaps on their way to the Gardner Museum, the city’s century old art museum, stopped to create this delightful and spontaneous piece of land art.  A few minutes after their departure, Flickr photographer lastonein came across their transient creation and captured it for posterity.