I beat this drum a lot, but here again is the problem with the Trident:  too often, the lights at Asylum and the lights at Farmington get out of sync, and it gums up traffic.  Today we were fortunate, as no one blocked the box, but that happens all too often.

I proposed my idea for a fix to the city’s consultant working on improvements to the Trident, which was to keep the lights synchronized and then allow for an extra long walk signal, so that one person could make it all the way across the whole of the Trident with ease.  I estimated it would take at most 35 to 45 seconds.  The consultant’s response?  That’s too long to make cars wait.  Well!  All of us going north and south through the Trident had to wait 3 minutes to get all the way through – not a long time, in the grand scheme of things, and certainly more time than a pedestrian-friendly walk signal would have made us wait.

Now officially the Plimpton-Nelson House!  The new homeowner graciously offered to let us host our bimonthly board meeting here, and then we celebrated a bit with a tour of the house and a small gathering.  We talked for ages that that marvelous room up on the third floor was “the billiard room,” and I suppose we finally made that manifest by our wishes!

Even the eye washer is clogged!  Sad that the landlord can’t see his way to invest in even a plunger.

More work on the back deck, plus a look inside.

A big, beautiful tree, cut down in its maturity, in front of 122 Huntington Street.  I do hope they contacted the city forester and got a permit for it ….

This was a good day to take these photos.  The sunlight coming through the trees, which are still (mostly) green, and the dappled light on the decks give a very good idea of how lovely this house is, year-round.

As more of the original layers of the house are exposed, it seemed an opportune time to take some photos!  Also, the siding is being repaired, and now there are some decent shots that show where the brackets on the east side bay window went – and will go.