Festival of the UHauls, 2011.

Boston is a great college town. It has just under 300 colleges serving up a mixed bag of book learning to 250,000 eager students.

I have the pleasure of living in a neighborhood that caters to the needs of this bulbous student population. Surrounded by fast food restaurants, bars and laundromats, my condominium is next to the subway line almost exactly between Boston University and Boston College. With a considerable supply of affordable apartments, it’s the ideal location for parents to dump their kids for four years.

Roughly 150,000 of these kids exit Boston in the spring when school ends and return over the Labor Day weekend. We call it the Festival of the UHauls.

Shot during the moving in, moving out madness of Labor Day weekend on the streets of Allston.

Beacon Hill, Boston, Halloween 2011.

Head of the Charles Regatta 2011.

The Head of the Charles Regatta, also known as HOCR or HOTC, is a rowing race held on the penultimate complete weekend of October each year on the Charles River, which separates Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The race is named the “Head” of the Charles because it is a head race. It is the second largest 2-day regatta in the world, with more than 8,900 athletes rowing in around 1,750 boats in 56 events. It attracts about 300,000 spectators throughout Regatta weekend. The Head of the Charles Regatta is run by an office of 3 and approximately 1,500 volunteers. The regatta is hosted by Cambridge Boat Club, a rowing and social club founded in 1909 that lies just before the Eliot bridge, on the Cambridge side of the river.

Southern Decadence.

From the series “Southern decadence.”

Random room.

A new way of working.

Another example from my ongoing series “a new way of working”.

A new way of working.

Another example from the series “a new way of working.”

Allston street fair.

On the bed.

A New England pig roast.

Two hundred and twenty pounds of roasted bliss.