A walk-through of the Emerald Necklace. Twelve consecutive parks and ponds, spots of green throughout the city of Boston. We started at Jamaica Pond, went through Jamaicaway, Arborway and ended at the Arnold Arboretum. This is the oldest public arboretum in North America, there since 1872. A nice walk through nature in this big town, restful, full of birds, and a magnificent arboretum, even if it was maybe a little early in the season, to appreciate the full extent of its beauty.
“Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
Robert Frost
A Prayer in Spring”