Blue skies, clean air, everything in full leaf - this is the kind of day that sees Boston crawling with postcard photographers and high school students on field trips. The kind of day that makes it difficult not to lord it over friends in other towns that you live here and they don't.
Lately, there are shorter lines for coffee in the morning, traffic on Storrow Drive is more or less bearable and there is more room on the T than there was a month ago. You probably didn't notice exactly when, but the annual student decampment has happened. In the eyes of many, Boston is about college. People come here to go to school and they move on. By this time each year, college students - the undergrads, anyway - have mostly cleaned out there dorm rooms and gone home to Otherplace, New Jersey, or Brookfarmport, Illinois. Personally, I love the energy they bring to the city, and whether we know it or not, we all love the money they spend here. But it is nice each summer to breath deep, stretch and enjoy a little living space.
And Bonds coming into Fenway to get booed mercilessly. Ahhh . . . .
ReplyDeleteoh how i love the summer here in the city i love, i'll take the tourists over the students any day!
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Liz. Not that I really mind the students, but the tourists and I aren't waiting in the same lines at the same times. Every fall I have a moment on the T when I realize I'm not getting a seat and I probably won't be getting a seat until June...
-Jack