Mark Smith captured the action at Jamaica Pond late this afternoon.
By adamg - Tue, 06/23/2020 - 10:02pm
Parkman Drive is once again open to cars, seeing as how there's no longer any need to provide extra space for walkers and joggers around Jamaica Pond, or something. In any case, DCR said it was removing the barriers tonight.
By adamg - Sun, 06/14/2020 - 11:39pm
According to posters in the Jamaica Pond Facebook group, there are now at least two koi in Jamaica Pond, one orange and one white, and that's not a good thing because they can grow fat and sassy, as they eat and uproot underwater plants and contribute to algae blooms through their waste.
By adamg - Wed, 04/29/2020 - 9:03am
No, Kristen Johnson isn't a spy with a passcode. She just happened to get to Jamaica Pond early this morning, before the maddening crowds of counter-clockwise joggers, and so spotted a deer out for some foraging: Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 04/20/2020 - 8:14pm
Michael Spicher watched the sun go down over Jamaica Pond this evening.
By adamg - Sat, 04/11/2020 - 6:23pm
Peter Cheung shows us Parkman Drive closed to traffic so that the non-motorized set can have more room to socially distance. DCR shut the road for the weekend and may keep it car-free for the duration of the emergency; they'll make an announcement on Monday.
By adamg - Tue, 03/24/2020 - 9:56am
City Councilor Matt O'Malley probably thought he was ending all the confusion about how to space walkers and joggers out around Jamaica Pond when he declared the other day that everybody should a) walk around the pond clockwise and b) stay to the left, because, you know this is JP, ain't nobody on the right here. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 10:46am
In the Before Times, some people would walk or jog clockwise around Jamaica Pond while others would go counter-clockwise. As long as people didn't keep their heads down, it worked out fine and life was good. But now, with infections concerns at a fever pitch, some folks are wondering: Should people all walk or jog in the same direction, to reduce the odds of getting coughed or sneezed on by somebody coming the other way and increase that social distancing to at least six feet at all times? And if so, which direction?
By adamg - Mon, 03/02/2020 - 7:32pm
This big bird was sitting in a tree on the Parkman Drive side of Jamaica Pond shortly before 5 p.m. He, or she, attracted quite an audience for a few minutes before deciding to fly away.
By adamg - Sun, 02/23/2020 - 10:34pm
It was so warm that a couple people waded into Jamaica Pond - in swimsuits.
By adamg - Wed, 01/29/2020 - 6:03pm
Say, we don't get many black ducks at Jamaica Pond (and at these prices, we can see why, woo hoo!).
By adamg - Sat, 12/14/2019 - 4:32pm
While Dorchester Bay was rolling across Morrissey Boulevard, Jamaica Pond was disappearing into the fog, as a roving UHub photographer discovered this afternoon.
By adamg - Sun, 12/08/2019 - 6:30pm
Roving UHub photographer Mary Ellen spotted a pied-billed grebe at Jamaica Pond yesterday.
You can tell a grebe (you just can't tell it much) because they're a bit smaller and not as black as the coots that frequent the pond this time of year.
Also at Jamaica Pond today, Stephen Baird photographed a bald eagle soaring overhead.
By adamg - Sun, 10/20/2019 - 10:25pm
Rev. Laura Everett got a look at the newest Orange Line cars at the Jamaica Pond Lantern Parade this evening.
By adamg - Sun, 10/13/2019 - 3:17pm
This afternoon, this heron was quietly minding its own business on the Parkman Drive side of Jamaica Pond, slowly wading along the shore looking for a bite to eat, with that Groucho Marx gait herons have, when another heron landed on the water about 15 feet away. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 10/07/2019 - 2:32pm
If the sailboats at Jamaica Pond were candlepins, the role of the ball today would be played by the wind, Travel New England reports.
By adamg - Sat, 09/28/2019 - 1:49pm
A Boston Parks and Recreation project around Jamaica Pond that has focused mainly on replacing the crumbling asphalt walkways that ring the park also includes work to improve the plantings there. Along the Parkman Drive and Perkins Street sides, workers have uprooted decades of weeds and put down new soil and, in several areas, grass seed. Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 08/15/2019 - 8:00pm
This turtle climbed up on the oversized bathtub drain at the northern end of Jamaica Pond this afternoon to get some sun, but then seemed to want to figure out if it could balance on it using just its shell.
By adamg - Sat, 08/03/2019 - 3:40pm
Some ducks shared their rocky resting spot with a pair of turtles in Jamaica Pond yesterday.
By adamg - Thu, 07/18/2019 - 4:14pm
One of the geese that frequents Jamaica Pond hit the salad bar this afternoon while one of the rolling Brookline eyesores that keeps winding up at the pond just sat nearby, taking up space.
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