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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 15

#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025 :: We celebrated with #resistance & #resilience! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸
(Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bicycle in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common…)

#BostonPride #NoKings #PrideMonth #Boston

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKingsDay x #Pride2025
We celebrate with #resistance & #resilience
(Don’t ask me how I managed to ride my bike in the Pride March through Back Bay right onto Boston Common)

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 7

CANCELLED DUE TO FORECASTED THUNDERSTORMS:
Sadly, as a result of the anticipated thunder and lightning storms, the tents cannot be occupied, and therefore, the 2025 Festival has been CANCELLED for the first time ever. Thanks to all for their support, enthusiasm, and planned participation!

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join Greater Boston’s largest & most popular outdoor/indoor dance event: our 15th annual Dance for World Community Festival in Harvard Sq on 6/7. It’s a free, public, all-day event featuring performances and classes from 60+ local dance companies! Visit www.danceforworldcommunity.org/festival

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 4

Rhododendrons blooming wildly in June!

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jun 4

“I found myself in JUMBO, a large collection of local alternative rockers and others who played barely-recognizable versions of the most ubiquitous circus tunes…and showed how a big group with a thoroughly playful attitude can be a bulwark against both musical dissonance and a fear of wrong notes.”

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jan 20

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that."
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in “Strength to Love,” 1963.
#MLKDay

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jan 6

Today — January 6 — both Canada and the United States take steps to install their new leaders — in very different ways!
#electoraldemocracy #canadianpolitics #uspolitics #january6

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Jan 1

Photos from the last walk in the woods for 2024…
#SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #December31

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 31

A foggy winter day in Cambridge, Massachusetts on the last Sunday of 2024 :: #SeeTheBeauty #NewEnglandWinter #nofilter #CambMA

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 29

Remembering Nikki Giovanni (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) :: poetrysociety.org/poetry-in-mo... #poetry #nikkigiovanni

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

Finally, the light is that perfect winter mid-snowfall light that’s bright and diffuse and also gray at the same time, with the snowflakes coming down!

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

Also, in this photo you can see the small hemlock trees (which are taller than me) that have been planted in between to replace the ones lost in this magnificent double allée of trees for across left and right.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

Their spread is both driven by climate change and may also accelerate it (yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/inva...)

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/08/invasive-insect-could-accelerate-release-of-climate-pollution-from-forests/>

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

This is just as many people have seen happen throughout New England and the Northeast, including on Hemlock Hill in the Arnold Arboretum (arboretum.harvard.edu/plants/hemlo...).

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

Hemlock Hill History, Management and Research

Ecological History Management and Research In 1997, the hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA; Adelges tsugae) was discovered on the Arnold Arboretum’s Hemlock Hill. This tiny insect, a relative of the aphid, f...

arboretum.harvard.edu

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

The invasive hemlock woody adelgid (www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/i...) is attacking them.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

https://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/local/invasive-pest-hemlock-woolly-adelgid-attacks-forests-increasing-berkshire-county-warm-winters/article_a4cc6f0c-e22c-11ee-9346-d3350914f655.html>

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

Then these particular trees in Belmont, MA are part of the Pine Allée at the top of Belmont Hill: they have both survived for almost 120 years — and are also dying because of climate change (belmontonian.com/belmont/larg...).

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #ClimateChange #BelmontMA #photography

Largess Help To Maintain Belmont’s Pine Allée

belmontonian.com

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

Next, I almost didn’t take this photo because I wasn’t sure that I wanted the people in it — but they make the photograph because they provide scale for the mighty Hemlock trees towering literally 100 feet above them.

#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlocks #BelmontMA #photography #NewEnglandWinter

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 21

A Picture Says a Thousand Words: a brief anatomy of a spontaneous photograph. There’s so much going on in this photograph! First, it’s unedited, uncropped, and it’s not using a telephoto lens or a digital zoom — it’s just a photo taken spontaneously with my iPhone.
#SeeTheBeauty #Hemlock #photograph

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 15

Scenes from today’s walk in Somerville and Cambridge :: #SeeTheBeauty #Camberville #flowers

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Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 13

A chilly, windy, and beautiful fall-becoming-winter afternoon…
#SeeTheBeauty

Brian Corr @bluecorr.bsky.social · Dec 10

On this rainy #December evening, I’m oddly delighted that my iPhone made this video from some of my best flower photos all by itself, and just offered it to me… Check it out!
#SeeTheBeauty of #flowers by #Siri & me :-)