Walking this weekend, we spotted a few red and yellow leaves along our path.
We know it's been cool, but it is far too early for fall colors.
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Walking this weekend, we spotted a few red and yellow leaves along our path.
We know it's been cool, but it is far too early for fall colors.
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Time to recycle all those prescription and non-prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses that are tucked away in drawers and packed in old, "I-may-need-this-someday" or "Maybe-this-will-come-back-in-style" boxes.
Here are a few that I had tucked away. Yes some of them may come back into style, but as I set them out for a photo, I remembered which pair kept popping a lens because the screw hole was worn and how heavy those over sized sunglasses are compared to today's lighter frames.
With a bit of research, I found three places where you can drop off donations of eyeglasses:
If you're one of our readers outside the Boston area, you can ship your donation to a Lions Club eyeglass recycling center. Here's the list.
The photo above is a Lions Club collection box. You may see one of these in other optical shops in addition to the three listed here. If you do, let us know by adding a comment to this post, tweeting the location to @BostonZest, or sending us an email.
If you come across this information long after June 2015, I suggest you call the locations to confirm that they are still taking part in a program that will use the glasses.
One final tip – check over the glasses you are recycling the way you might if you were donating a box of old jewelry. We have a friend who collects antique eyeglasses and he spotted some collectables among ours.
The ones in the photo above turned out to be 14K gold, quite old, and very collectable. But, even some older designer frames may have people willing to pay top dollar to add to their collection. A few minutes on Etsy or ebay could give you some indication of value.
Oh, we both love this inexpensive but protective eyeglass case we found on Amazon. We've had our for a couple of years now and consider these one of our better buys. They just work, Large Sunglasses/Eyeglass Case with Zipper
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Send Your Eyeglasses & Medical Prescriptions to the Cloud
And just for fun …
There Are Eyeglasses and Then There Are …
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Photography: © 2008-2015 Penny Cherubino
Time to recycle all those prescription and non-prescription eyeglasses, sunglasses, reading glasses that are tucked away in drawers and packed in old, "I-may-need-this-someday" or "Maybe-this-will-come-back-in-style" boxes.
Here are a few that I had tucked away. Yes some of them may come back into style, but as I set them out for a photo, I remembered which pair kept popping a lens because the screw hole was worn and how heavy those over sized sunglasses are compared to today's lighter frames.
With a bit of research, I found three places where you can drop off donations of eyeglasses:
If you're one of our readers outside the Boston area, you can ship your donation to a Lions Club eyeglass recycling center. Here's the list.
The photo above is a Lions Club collection box. You may see one of these in other optical shops in addition to the three listed here. If you do, let us know by adding a comment to this post, tweeting the location to @BostonZest, or sending us an email.
If you come across this information long after June 2015, I suggest you call the locations to confirm that they are still taking part in a program that will use the glasses.
One final tip – check over the glasses you are recycling the way you might if you were donating a box of old jewelry. We have a friend who collects antique eyeglasses and he spotted some collectables among ours.
The ones in the photo above turned out to be 14K gold, quite old, and very collectable. But, even some older designer frames may have people willing to pay top dollar to add to their collection. A few minutes on Etsy or ebay could give you some indication of value.
Oh, we both love this inexpensive but protective eyeglass case we found on Amazon. We've had our for a couple of years now and consider these one of our better buys. They just work, Large Sunglasses/Eyeglass Case with Zipper
Related Posts:
Send Your Eyeglasses & Medical Prescriptions to the Cloud
And just for fun …
There Are Eyeglasses and Then There Are …
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Words: Penny Cherubino
Photography: © 2008-2015 Penny Cherubino
The line of people waiting to start their summer season with a Memorial Day Weekend Swan Boat ride in the Boston Public Garden went off the dock, up the path, and out of sight.
We hope this weekend has been a great start to summer for all our readers. Here's a link to our Memorial Day resource page:
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The line of people waiting to start their summer season with a Memorial Day Weekend Swan Boat ride in the Boston Public Garden went off the dock, up the path, and out of sight.
We hope this weekend has been a great start to summer for all our readers. Here's a link to our Memorial Day resource page:
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Our Friday Link today will take you to the DCR (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation) site for Universal Access to State Recreation facilities. And, we wanted to let you know that DCR is holding an Accessible Recreation Fair on May 30, 2015.
More and more citizens and visitors are asking about ways they can enjoy many of the places the Boston area has to offer with friends or family members who have different levels of mobility or other issues that require some special support.
You can see the cover of the department's current brochure on the program above. You can download a copy here. Download DCR accessbroch or from the state site at this link.
The brochure covers categories of what they call experiences that will be right for a wide range of abilities.
It charts what is available by park within regions.
And, it covers what you can do at each place.
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Images: Courtesy of DCR
Our Friday Link today will take you to the DCR (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation) site for Universal Access to State Recreation facilities. And, we wanted to let you know that DCR is holding an Accessible Recreation Fair on May 30, 2015.
More and more citizens and visitors are asking about ways they can enjoy many of the places the Boston area has to offer with friends or family members who have different levels of mobility or other issues that require some special support.
You can see the cover of the department's current brochure on the program above. You can download a copy here. Download DCR accessbroch or from the state site at this link.
The brochure covers categories of what they call experiences that will be right for a wide range of abilities.
It charts what is available by park within regions.
And, it covers what you can do at each place.
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
Images: Courtesy of DCR
While waiting for it to finally warm up, we did muse about the good side of this long, cool spring.
The magnolias held their bloom far longer than usual. We had the early white blooms, the middle pink blooms, and some of the deep purple blooms all out together.
The birds have been singing their hearts out trying to set up their summer family and nests.
Gardeners have had cool days to do the heavy work of spring clean up.
Yes, we've done a lot of complaining about the lack of warm days. But being optimists at heart, we did try to find a good side to April's weather.
Would you rather have it warmer or have you found a few aspects of this slow move towards warmer days that you like?
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Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
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With last week's return to cooler temperatures, the opening of the magnolia buds along Commonwealth Avenue slowed, but it is happening! And, if we get a sunny day or two, we think the spectacular display should peak this week.
Right now, there are a few early bloomers ready for their closeups. The white magnolias, like those above and below, are the first to bloom and a few have already begun to drop their petals.
There is the slightest tinge of pink even in the whitest of the white blossoms. It's fun to notice things like that when you move in for a close view.
The next bloomers are the Magnolia stellata, or star magnolia with many small petals per bud.
(This photo is from a past year.)
Finally, the big show stoppers will be the thousands of Magnolia × soulangeana or saucer magnolia.
And, an encore will be performed by the deep purple variety that's still showing tightly, closed buds on the few trees we can identify.
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