The Lynn YMCA has made its winter programs brochure available.  Please visit their website.  The winter programs brochure can be found on the front page.

Below: Eastern Ave. from Essex St. looking east after last week's snowstorm.

Or was it two weeks ago?  With snow comes  both complaints and cooperation in Lynn. Complaints fall when the city tickets homeowners for not shoveling their sidewalks. Cooperation comes when residents chip in to not only do the sidewalks in front of their house, but the sidewalks in front of their neighbors'.

I was recently at the Lynn Department of Public Works to get some free sand and salt mixture to put on my sidewalks. I am discovering that it is wise to take advantage of anything free in these times of economic hardship. My hours at work were recently cut back.

At the DPW's main office on Commercial St., there was a fellow traveler getting his sand and salt mix. His van was filled with a dozen buckets to my 3 retail-sized empty pet-friendly ice melting mix containers. I had come unprepared. He graciously offered me one of his buckets. He gets the buckets for free from a grocery store close to his home in Lynn.

He told me that he lives on a dead-end street that the city sometimes doesn't plow. He gets sand for his whole street. He uses his snowblower to clear his street and the sidewalks of his elderly neighbors. There was no hint of complaint in his voice; he seemed happy to do it. It was his self-reliance and gift of service to his community that I admired.

More scenes of Lynn in winter:

A wintry sky over houses and a church on Eastern Ave.

A fence.

A willow branch

Crows

See the whole series of photos.