Spending Some Summer Fun Time at the Stony Brook Reservation's Turtle Pond
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This is my sitting on the deck at Turtle Pond, sunning myself and enjoying the fact that though I'm sittin on a dock at a pond surrounded by wilderness, I'm actually still in the city limits of Boston. Thank goodness for the Emerald Necklace!
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Lily pads and pink toes. Cute times.
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Life is rough in the big city.