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  • You & Me or the Autumn Tree?

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    With today’s smart phones and tablets, you have to guess what the photographer is shooting. Is this woman taking a photo of her and her friend or the fall foliage in the Boston Public Garden?

    If you want to share your favorite local, fall foliage photo, upload it to the BostonZest Flickr Photo Group. Or, you can tell us where you have spotted great color in the comments below or share with us on Twitter.

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    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2012 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

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  • You & Me or the Autumn Tree?

    IMG_5918 - Version 22012-10-12-photo-of-you-and-me-∂© 2011 Penny Cherubino

    With today’s smart phones and tablets, you have to guess what the photographer is shooting. Is this woman taking a photo of her and her friend or the fall foliage in the Boston Public Garden?

    If you want to share your favorite local, fall foliage photo, upload it to the BostonZest Flickr Photo Group. Or, you can tell us where you have spotted great color in the comments below or share with us on Twitter.

    Thanks to everyone who hops over to Amazon from here to do their shopping. We appreciate your support. It doesn’t cost you any more but they put a few coins in our tip jar.

    What’s on your Fall Shopping List? Click here for Fall Season Savings over at Amazon.

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    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2012 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

    Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers’ comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often, those add great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.

     

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  • A Sunday Dog Salute to Geese Wranglers at Work

    DSC_4447 - Version 22012-05-03-geese-dogs-boston-public-garden-canada-geese-© 2011 Penny Cherubino

    Recently, we had the opportunity to photograph two geese dogs and their human teammates at work in the Boston Public Garden. They were trying to make Canada Geese understand that the lagoon is not a place to settle down for the summer. 

    If you should see this pair with their yellow vests off-leash in this park, please understand that they are there to do an important job. They are trained to voice commands and obey instantly when asked to stop, stay, or change their position.

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    One of their handlers works on the lagoon from a kayak and the other (the woman in the yellow jacket) stays along the shore. The dogs work both in and out of the water. 

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    The object of the game is to keep the birds from feeling safe in this park without hurting them. This is called site aversion by the GeesePeace model program. 

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    "You can take a break, I've got this one," said one dog to the other!

    These pups were working so hard we never did get their names. If you are in a park where you see Border Collies working on geese control, please keep your own dog on leash and away from them. These herders move very fast and it would be easy to get in their way. They might also tempt your dog to chase them.

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    We were worn out just watching them as we said so long to two very tired dogs.

    Thanks to this team and the Friends of the Public Garden for making the park a cleaner and safer place to walk. And, thanks to other teams working in other parks, golf courses, and open spaces. It will take a sustained and combined effort to undo the human mistakes that caused the overpopulation of these birds.

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    Details:
    Words: Penny & Ed Cherubino
    Photography: © 2012 Penny & Ed Cherubino  

    Note on Comments: We monitor comments constantly and anything that is pure spam, inappropriate, or nasty is swept away. In addition to readers comments, we welcome hearing from the people, places, and services we cover. Often those add a great insights for our readers. As long as it doesn’t become a pure ad, we’d love to hear from you. We do reserve the right to edit ads and links out of comments.