If you ever want to photograph Boston’s “Make Way for Ducklings” statue without throngs of children perched and posing on mama duck and her brood, just walk through the Public Garden on a rainy evening, when you’ll have the place almost entirely to yourself.
On Saturday night, J and I took a rainy stroll through the Public Garden on our way to a symphony concert, just as we did last year. Whereas last year, the Public Garden was full of tulip-appreciators of all shapes and sizes, on Saturday night, the rain kept all but the most diehard park visitors away, including a couple in wedding finery who stayed huddled in their limosine rather than venturing outside for a spring-green photo-shoot.
Although it was too wet for swan-boats, the Public Garden’s resident mute swans were undeterred by rain, one of the pair standing sentry at their usual nest-site. It won’t be long until this sentry will be sitting on a stick nest while her mate runs off any intruding ducks. Until then, a rainy Saturday night is a quiet time in the garden, the weather perfect for waterfowl of all kinds.
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May 12, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Rainy days are the best for walking through the Public Garden. I came back on Saturday after visiting my father at the cemetery, after getting downpoured on I decided to get wetter. Spring showers are fun !
I was there in the afternoon so we missed each other, who knows we may have ran into each other many times before.
Sometimes I wonder if there are people whom we cross paths with many times in our lives but never become acquainted with. Such is life, which is why we should cherish the people we are blessed enough to be acquainted with.
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May 13, 2011 at 3:11 am
I knew about the duckling and the boston park ever since I read the story to my son here in Paris! So the engraving next to the ducking is absolutely right.
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