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Where natural, manmade skylines meet
By adamg on Wed, 05/03/2017 - 2:43pm
Meghan Rauber took in the view of downtown and the Back Bay - and lots of trees - from the top of Peters Hill in the Arnold Arboretum yesterday.
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Great pic
Such an awesome spot. The whole arboretum really.
Frederick Law Olmsted is a national treasure. Would highly recommend reading the book 'Genius of Place' for those interested in one of the most diversely talented and compassionate people in this country's history.
Also recommended
A visit to the Frederick Law Olmstead House in Brookline (today would have been a great day to visit) , not only for the beautiful garden spaces but to see how Olmstead converted an old farmhouse into the headquarters for his landscaping firm (not to mention the Olmstead archives).
https://www.nps.gov/frla/index.htm
Whatever you think of Olmsted
Whatever you think of Olmsted, he had very little to do with the Arboretum. The layout of the roads hardly makes the experience - there are trees in there somewhere.
More like "Where manmade,
More like "Where manmade, manmade skylines meet". Most of Boston's best bits of nature are far from natural.
Seeing that brings home to me...
...just how recent that skyline is. It would be interesting to see a shot from the same or similar perspective, if it exists, from the pre-Pru 60's. I suspect there would be no skyline to speak of.
I went up to
the top of Peter's Hill on Monday morning in the misty drizzle. I wanted to see the flowering trees, but, even more, I wanted to look out from the top and not see the skyline. There was a good view of Bussey Hill and the emerging greening of the trees and the grass. And I wasn't distracted by the skyline.
I know it's a manmade landscape in part, but the topography and the 100-year-old + oak trees, give a sense of what it must have looked like years ago. It was worth the trip.
If I didn't know this view is
If I didn't know this view is easterly, I could almost believe that the Hudson River School is visible in there.
I see a shadow...
now what?