Photo of the Christian Science Center in Boston. I like the verdant bushes below this fantastic structure.

The MBTA recently installed fluorescent lighting at the Courthouse stop on the Silver Line. Took the photos below last evening, to show how much it resembles something out of Disney Tomorrowland.

Not sure if they’re going to eventually cover these lights with posters – the lights on the wall seem way too big for a translucent poster.

I kind of hope they leave them uncovered, add a disco ball, and turn the whole thing into a roller rink. It’d make the commute into work WAY more interesting.

Over President’s Day weekend, I visited South Bend and got a chance to visit the Grotto on the Notre Dame campus.

It was lightly snowing, and snow covered the Grotto and the benches, even putting out the candles that had been lit on the right side of the cave.

A thick layer of snow covered every surface… except for the kneeling bench in front of the Grotto, kept clean by a steady stream of prayers. Even in the cold, people kept coming to send up prayers before the statue of Our Lady.

Kelly Sherman (the ICA artist whose work I blogged about) won the Foster Prize at the ICA!

Cambridge artist gets a prize

Kelly Sherman got the call Sunday. That’s when the Cambridge artist learned she had won the Institute of Contemporary Art’s $25,000 James and Audrey Foster Prize, a biennial award for a Boston-area artist. “I jumped up and down and screamed and cried,” Sherman said yesterday. “I had done a pretty good job of convincing myself that I wouldn’t get it.” For her exhibition, Sherman, 28, created “The Family House,” a work of diagrammatic drawings of her childhood home showing shifts in household arrangements caused by divorce; “Wish Lists,” an evocative collection of 40 personal wish lists gathered from the Internet; and “Chairs,” a video featuring a parade of seating items for sale on eBay. The other finalists for the ICA’s prize were Sheila Gallagher, Jane D. Marsching, and Rachel Perry Welty. The work of all four artists will be at the ICA through March 11.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/02/13/message_in_a_ballpark/

Oddly enough, the picture of the San Xavier mission (shown below) is the most viewed photo I have on Flickr.

Not sure if there’s a natural interest in this photo, or if it’s because it’s the first one I added to a Flickr map.  Either way it’s kind of nice to know that so many people are coming across San Xavier on the Internet.