Boston, Massachusetts 2026

October 23, 2026

The second leg of our New England trip took us to Boston, Massachusetts for a long weekend. Even a non-street-guy can find photos in a place like that.

After our week in Salem, Massachusetts, Kelli and I traveled back to Boston for a couple of days’ stay there. Kelli had always wanted to see it and I’m never going to object to an opportunity for some photos that aren’t my usual fare.

We stayed downtown, took the trolley tour around to see a wider part of the city, and visited Boston Common and a couple of the really old cemeteries near us, the biggest one being the Granary Burying Place.

The Granary has the distinction of being the final resting place of several people who were closely connected to the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. As a moderately newly-minted citizen who has lived in the USA now for over 20 years, this is history which is truly fascinating.

I didn’t get a photo capturing this (d’oh) but the Beantown Pub, located directly across the road from the Granary (and overlooking the tombstone of Samuel Adams who lies mere feet from the sidewalk) distinguishes itself as “the only place in town where you can drink a cold Sam Adams while looking at a cold Sam Adams”¹. Gotta love that New England sense of humor!

We also found ourselves close to the Irish Famine Memorial. Somewhat ironic, in a way, since the poor Irish arriving in Boston in the late 1840s to escape that famine found themselves most unwelcome. Now, the city can’t get enough of its Irish heritage.

Anyway without further ado and in something mostly resembling chronological order, here are some of the better photos I captured in Boston.

Everything shot with the Panasonic Lumix G9 and Lumix G 12-35/2.8 II lens.

In the shadow of the valley of downtown.

In the event of emergency, evacuate to the nearest tea room for a nice cuppa.

Don’t worry, he wasn’t actually loitering. Just stopped for a moment to check his phone.

I thought sushi was Japanese, but this is in Chinatown?

Two different types of rolls handled here. The photographic kind, and the dank sort.

Inspecting wares at Quincy Market, Boston.

Alley behind the Omni Parker House, Boston.

Here lyes y body… Granary Burying Place, Boston MA.

Churchgoers, past and present. Boston MA.

I pushed it repeatedly, but it must be broken.

They took mortality seriously back in the day.

Sinking memories. Over 300 years bearing down on the same piece of earth.

Massachusetts State House. The joke writes itself.

Segway tours are still a thing. Boston Common.

As a beagle parent, I can confirm that they’re good at detecting all kinds of things. Bugsy specializes in bed bugs, apparently.

These stone pavers down near Quincy Hall in Boston, MA, with their wide spacing and deeply-set grouting, leave opportunity for these tiny yellow leaves to collect. They looked a little like especially decorative grouting between the stones.

Samuel Adams, were he to go full Billy Butcherson and sit upright in his grave, and assuming nobody had parked a large SUV just on the other side of the railings, would have a straight-line view of the Beantown Pub across the road. ↩︎