Lena Webb

@finitealright.bsky.social

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I hate cars; I love people (she/they)

A new path is being constructed on the other side of a chain link fence
From an article in the Boston Globe entitled "‘A period of suffering.’ What it’s like when a 20-minute Red Line commute takes more than two hours." There are many miserable commutes into Boston. You might find yourself trapped on I-93, brake lights stretching to the horizon. Or plodding along on the Tobin, where the destination is so close, yet so far. Or creeping endlessly into bottlenecked tunnels on the Mass. Pike. Day after day. But things could be worse. You could be relying on the Red Line, where for the next week and a half, a trip into Boston that once took less than 20 minutes can now take more than two hours. “I think it’s crazy,” said construction worker Melvin Saunders, 67, as he boarded a shuttle bus toward Boston at Alewife station Tuesday morning. “I think all shutdowns are crazy.”
Screen shot from the music video for Bad Bunny's song "NUEVAYoL" in which you can see Benito's silhouette through the windows of the Statue of Liberty's crown, and a large Puerto Rican flag (with the light blue colored portion symbolizing Puerto Rican independence from the US) hanging below him
Driveway leading to a garage with two white doors and a ladies' vintage bicycle in front of them. Trash and recycling bins are to the right as well as a small patio table and chairs
A humble piece of plywood is acting as a ramp to one side of the entry to a wooden bridge on an unpaved shared-use path
Huge wooden doors that were used to lock in the water on the canal so boats could pass
Four small white oval dishes each holding a large whole dill pickle
Map of NY focused on the Erie Canalway trail between Oneida and Syracuse. It says "you are here" in Canastota NY
Breakfast plate with crispy lacy hash browns, scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast
Bag of Vlasic brand pickle flavor corn puffs with some of the vibrant green puffs on a napkin next to it
Knitted pickle holding a little sign labeling it an emotional support pickle
Beer menu with a beer named "Cherry Papoppin' Daddy"
Road bike with wooden fenders and a pannier and rear rack with black crocs strapped to it
Scene from the TV show ER with the dialogue shown on closed caption "What's M V C "
Staffing Update from Mayor Wilson, Friday, May 22, 2026 Layoffs are always a last resort. But like many communities across the Commonwealth and country, we have found ourselves facing a difficult budget season. For Somerville, that took the form of a $5.4 million projected budget shortfall for the next fiscal year that needed to be addressed. To close the gap, we worked first to raise revenues, pay down debt with reserves, and make strategic cuts to non-personnel costs citywide. While those measures made some headway, we were still left with needing to further reduce spending. That led to the very difficult decision to cut 29 positions from the City budget, including 16 vacant roles and 13 filled roles. An additional 5 positions were transferred to best apply that capacity to City needs. Any layoff is painful for the employees affected, the colleagues they worked alongside, and the community that relies on their daily work. I’ve been laid off twice myself and have had coworkers laid off too, so I know how hard and awful it is. Affected individuals have been placed on paid administrative leave through the end of June, allowing them continued pay and benefits, and Human Resources will assist them through this transition. I cannot say strongly enough that we cut positions, not people. Somerville is fortunate to have extraordinarily dedicated public servants. The employees impacted by these layoffs have served this community well, and I’m grateful for their work. As we move forward, we will be taking every operational step needed to ensure the work continues through new approaches and structures, so we can continue to serve the community well. - Mayor Wilson
Selfie showing road rash on my chin and upper lip after falling off my bike
Screen shot of a paragraph describing that it is illegal to harvest or possess glass eels or elvers (baby eels) and that the violations come with heavy fines or even jail time
Screen shot of a paragraph describing eel lifts, which help eels migrate past river dams
Sign that once said "do not feed the pigeons" that has been modified with stickers and sharpie to say "do not feed me religions."
Picture of a man in a long chestnut brown coat from the brand Baleno
Screen shot of post about a march supporting local teachers unions in honor of international workers day and May Day
A bike tire tube is arranged so that one can see the three patches that have been applied to it to fix flats
A puncture in a bike tire tube is illuminated by a beam of light with a patch kit in the background
Presentation slide in Spanish about the Safety Stick (poste de seguridad) in Davis Square that automatically issues parking violation tickets
Picture of my bike with a baguette in white paper strapped to its top tube with Velcro reflective ankle straps
Picture of my bike holding a bottle of white wine in its water bottle cage
Screen shot of a Florida news segment with a mug shot of a tired older man with hot dogs taped to his chest and the caption "florida man stopped at airport with 47 uncooked hot dogs taped to his body - says he was 'just being efficient'"
Tree stump and the cut log in the woods. The wood is beautiful and brown. It is a walnut tree.
Google map of an intersection with diagrams to show where drivers almost ran me over while I was riding my bike home
Relief carving of a rooster from a basswood plank. It looks rough and is still very much in progress, but you can definitely tell it's a rooster! There is a small hole that goes through the board, put there by careless carving
I crudely edited an image of a purple street sweeping vehicle with "Sweep Now" pasted on to its side in the font used for Taylor Swift's album "Speak Now." The album cover for Speak Now (Taylor's Version) is pasted onto the passenger side window in an attempt to make it look like Taylor is driving the street sweeper.
Continued progress on the relief carving of a rooster in basswood. I used a gouge to whittle away the wood in order to set the design, and doing so created a line of concave gouge marks. The wood is relatively soft and the marks in the wood make it look even softer and satisfying to carve through
Relief wood carving of a rooster in early stages of progress. The rooster is sketched onto the wood and it is clamped down with tools strewn about the work surface. The next step is roughing out the outline by carving the wood down to create a relief
A small round grey - brown bird with a white belly sits in the snow crunching seeds with its beak. Its face has some snow on it from pecking for seeds
A relief wood carving of a circle with a dome in the middle clamped to a workbench with wood shavings and hand tools strewn about. This is the wood grain compass.
Marianne Moore's poem, "To a Snail" If “compression is the first grace of style,” you have it. Contractility is a virtue as modesty is a virtue. It is not the acquisition of any one thing that is able to adorn, or the incidental quality that occurs as a concomitant of something well said, that we value in style, but the principle that is hid: in the absence of feet, “a method of conclusions”; “a knowledge of principles,” in the curious phenomenon of your occipital horn.
A sheet of train themed stickers is on top of a booklet that says Activity Book
"Girl explaining meme" image
Screen shot of a U shaped bike parking rack
Line graph with the number of crashes that result in either serious injury or fatality every year from 2013 to 2025
Side-by-side images, on the left are my cats snuggled up on a chair and one of them has a shocked expression. On the left is the iconic image of Bush being informed that planes crashed into the world trade center, and he's making the same face as my cat.
Screen shot of a commuter rail tracking app showing all lines having at least a 10 minute delay
Merriam-Webster's word to inform my 2026 is: galvanic
Radar image from 6:55pm showing green blobs indicating medium to heavy rain over Metro Boston
The wished-for plate of boquerones on potato chips
Snack plate that has potato chips with pickled anchovies on top, spicy coppa, cheese, baby pickles, crackers.
Scrap wood from Christmas trees sits on top of a grey metal radiator
Screenshot of New York Times "Social Q's" section with the headline "How can I stop my wife from badgering our friends about climate change?" Subtext reads "A reader's wife is angry about what she sees as insufficient commitment to the cause of environmentalism, alienating the couple's friends"
Rough carving in early progress, a small bird from cherry wood
Small simple bird carving sits in my hand, stained with beeswax giving it a light golden tint
Unstained small basswood bird carving with four bite marks near its neck area
Paso 3. Escribe un párrafo para describir a un personaje de una serie de TV o película que te guste. Incluye personalidad y aspecto físico: Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce de la serie de T.V. classico, M*A*S*H* Hawkeye es uno de mis personajes favoritos de todos los tiempos. Él es sarcástico y él un bromista excepcional. Él es un mujeriego, pero aprende a ser mejor. Es un doctor bueno y no le gusta la guerra de Corea. Tiene ginebra y sus amigos por le ayudar.
Blury pic of a block of wood with an outline stencil made of paper glued on being held over a cardboard tray of wood shavings and a knife
Hand holding a simple bird carved from basswood
Two cats, one orange and one orange and white, are curled up on my lap.
A peacock with its impressive tail fanned out to its fullest with the text "I just rolled all 100 of my ass eyes"
A crossword with clues and one clue is circled in pencil. The clue is "RV interior?"