The weather in Boston is chilly this week. 1 degree on the thermometer at 7am outside this morning!

It’s toasty warm inside Eileen’s house where Debbie and I are spending a few days. Everywhere I look I see houses with snow covered lawns that remind me of Christmas card scenes of New England towns. Then I remember we are in New England at Christmas time! The scene in the bottom right corner is the view out of Eileen’s living room window on Saturday night.
Today we visited the Isabella Steward Gardener museum which is housed in her Venetian style palazzo home. You can see the courtyard garden in the photo on the top right. Our heads are spinning now with questions about who stole the 5 paintings from the museum in 1990. I think if they ask us we might be able to give them some useful theories to follow up on.