Boating on Jamaica Pond, 30 May 1998

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My housemates and I are lucky enough to live in easy walking distance to Jamaica Pond (and lots of other gorgeous green spaces in Jamaica Plain). These pictures are from a sunny May afternoon on the pond.

`Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolute nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.' - The Water Rat in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, ch. 1

These pictures were taken with an Epson PhotoPC 500 digital camera, and the images were acquired with Eugene Crosser's photopc program for Linux.

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	0530_003.jpg The Jamaica Pond boathouse, where you can rent rowboats. (The picture is taken from one. :-) Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_007.jpg Jamaica Pond. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_009.jpg The Jamaica Pond shoreline, with a figure on the path. One of the big reasons I love living in Jamaica Plain (a neighbourhood of Boston) is that an astonishing amount of it looks like this. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_010.jpg Jamaica Pond, with part of Hellenic Hill visible on the right. I like the sunlight glinting on the water. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_013.jpg View from Jamaica Pond of geese, foliage, and the path around the pond. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_014.jpg Jay and Tigris in a boat on Jamaica Pond. This picture was taken by my friend Marty on a neighbouring boat. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Marty Hiller. All rights reserved.
	0530_016.jpg Krikket in a boat on Jamaica Pond, with sky, trees, and water. The other boat visible in the picture was rowing tandem with us for a while. :-) Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_017.jpg View of Hellenic Hill with geese from Jamaica Pond. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.
	0530_019.jpg Jamaica Pond from the dock. I took this one partly because I liked the texture of the dock. Taken in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, on Saturday, 1998.05.30. Copyright (c) 1998 by Jay Sekora <js@aq.org>. All rights reserved.

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