Boston & Cambridge Photo Diary

Two of my favorite people from college currently live and study in Cambridge, MA, where they are working on PhDs at Harvard. I last saw them in November '15 and thought it might be lovely to see the northeast at the end of summer, where it bleeds ever so slightly into fall.

One of my hosts is a darling redheaded chef with a predilection for casually sharing funny snippets from Louisiana life...as well as for canning his own fruits and veggies. That is just how together his life is. Meanwhile here I am, forgetting about moldy nectarines in my fridge and having to throw them out. 

I've been to Boston something like 5 times in my life and had never so much as set foot in the Beacon Hill area until now. It has a frozen-in-time kind of sedate charm.

I always love a night walk. Especially in cities, beneath twinkling lights and hard angles.

In the city we met up with an old high school friend of mine, enjoyed a few Wahlburgers (I could not resist - the name was just too good), & helped my hosts shop for a fancy new duvet cover at West Elm (expressions of domestic excitement not pictured).

The House of Seven Gables.

On Saturday we got a little group together and did something a little different - we rented a Mini Cooper (adorable despite being daubed with mysteriously orange bird poop) and took a short road trip up to Salem, home of Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as those infamous witch trials. 

We took a short tour of the House of Seven Gables & its grounds and got to scale a few sets of creaky, wooden stairs leading to hidden halls and rooms. 

Salem brought us near the sprawling Devereux Beach, where we unpacked a picnic we had...well, overpacked that afternoon.

Always love an excuse to wear this crop top, yusss.

C&J

Chris, on Jacky

"When I'm stressed out, he leaves gummy bears on my desk for me to find."

Jacky, on Chris

"[In the beginning] I tried to flirt with him using pop song lyrics and he didn't get it."

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Chris & Jacky are near and dear to my heart, both individually and as a pair. We were at Princeton together, and they are now both pursuing PhDs (& their dreams) at the same institution. I visited them at Harvard in mid-November and found them to be living their newly begun graduate student lives with confidence and clarity. 

This was a casual session shot at the Boston Public Garden and in Copley Square in the early evening. We didn't set out with a concrete plan, and this was never meant to be a Very Fancy Production -- just something for us to do while the boys ushered me around a few Boston highlights during my visit. 

Their dynamic is lighthearted and teasing, every interaction punctuated with pointed looks and gentle chiding, which I think is communicated in these photos. And it certainly helped that I was a familiar presence -- there's a friendly ease to these images that I like to believe I had a hand in encouraging. Or maybe these boys are just always delightful anyway.

Jacky at Dusk

Wandered Boston for a few evenings with old Princeton-turned-Harvard friends. This one is always impeccably dressed.