There are car-pool parking lots near by the metro stations in Boston (look under Parking at MBTA site) -- some $5 a day, depending on the stations, you can drop your cars at the station and ride into the city from there. There were no rental bicycle stations nor bicycle roads in the city though some lock their bikes on poles. There is no charge to ride in by car into the city like in London but they charge cars that cross the river. Downtown Boston -- Borders, Boston Common, Capitol, Beacon Hills, Charles River, the heritage, those fashionable buildings, seemingly newly built, an American style. The people are friendly, free, independent, like New England, some living in such an apartment at some $2000 a month. The wall of the apartments in Beacon Hills (photo above) bricks, lamps. The indifference of the city, with shared values, books, and some rare items such as Gershwin's handwritten scores.
The state highway was under construction. They are putting small triangular reflex plates on the center line, and in some states, the highways are full of it, glittering brightly at night. The drive is smooth, the streets are filled with cars. The cars on the streets in Beacon Hills are expensive ones, it is an expensive area, the beautiful streets. It is a city by its definition, and it is Boston, the cultural center of the States.
If anything might shape the beauty of the creation -- is how the people tend the scene and take care of it. There places like Boston, the city is formed into such a place by numerous people walked upon it, making it sure by every step that it be a place for the onlookers, the pleasure of them, the home to them. From every angle, every way you look at by, you would feel it, through the time of hardship, the toils, the life of many unfathomable, the struggles of life, yearning for it, getting it, and losing it. What is it without -- the people, the interpretation of, in the midst of no clear pathways, to indicate where it leads to?
It is the check-and-balance, requires the discussion of the people who take interests in. It requires more people to participate in the debate, and get them serious on the matter. As for the scenic value of the place, the debate must come with some publicity.
One of the bookstore was closed, Circuit City stores are closed, bad time for those stores. In the bookstores, they sell bargain books, animals, human bodies, military books, etc. The books on military tend to be fully decorated, thick leather covers, golden inscriptions. There was a second hand bookstore, there are interesting books, in Russian, Portuguese, Sinhalese, etc.
Things change quickly in cities. The buildings are being rebuilt into colorful orange-ish and brick look with square windows. The curious thing is that the place which were under construction was, still is. Around the corner, on the small street, stores, behind larger shops on main streets. People talk loudly, in groups, one by one, walking, with their shopping bags, careless, nonchalant, free.
The people are nice there, the faces of people -- students from all over the world -- huanying is welcome in Taiwan -- the China town was just near by, the employees in the financial district in nice suites -- the ads of Merrill Lynch seminars, the unemployed -- around metro station exits, a Jewish synagogue -- and the gate was open. Books in Hebrew, the sign of Tanning salon -- their business recently accused of causing skin cancers, the people asking for changes, the people waiting in line just in front of the Capitol building.