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Overcast Days in Cambridge and Boston

·Cambridge, Massachusetts·#travel#autumn#cityscape#architecture#cambridge#boston
A cloudy harbor at dusk with numerous boats, city buildings, an obelisk, and a tall-masted ship.

Overcast the whole visit, and this day started across the water in Charlestown, out along the marina where the Bunker Hill Monument sits dead center on the skyline and the masts of the Constitution poke up off to the right. From there back toward North Station under the Zakim, past the old rail drawbridges rusting in the water.

Crossed to the Cambridge side and got the Hancock tower and Back Bay across the Charles under a broken sky, which was as much sun as the trip produced.

The stop I didn't expect: the library at the International School of Boston, a former almshouse redone as school space after the redesign, brick walls running all the way up to a timbered ceiling with enormous illuminated greenery hanging the full height of the room. No idea how they rigged them.

Evening was a Riverlane event at Venture Café in One Broadway — long wood tables, a TV stuck on its screen-mirroring page while people trickled in. Somewhere in the middle of all this, a set in a bar, the drummer lit red against the window. Kendall Square was still rows of lit offices when we came out.

An urban waterfront scene featuring two cable-stayed bridge towers, buildings, and a wooden pier under an overcast sky.A person plays drums, illuminated by red light, with a window showing a car in the background.An urban landscape featuring a river, a distant city skyline with a tall skyscraper, and buildings in the foreground.A person stands in a rustic-style room with wooden tables, metal chairs, tiered seating, and a "river lane" banner.An indoor cafe or event space with wooden tables and chairs, a counter with a person, and a stage with a banner and screen.Upside-down, lit Christmas trees hang from a high wooden ceiling in a multi-level building with brick walls.Nighttime view of the glass entrance to the "One Broadway" building, with reflections and a few people inside.Night cityscape featuring multiple illuminated buildings and bare trees under a dark sky.

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