At the start of 2022, a new job gave me a reason to cross the Longfellow Bridge across the Charles River in Boston on a regular basis.

I often prefer walking it to taking the ever-more undependable Red Line T along it, except when it’s too cold, of course.

In the warmer months, however, it’s a treat. I often feel moved to take a few shots of the Back Bay skyline.

Granted, I can also see the skyline along Memorial Drive on the Cambridge side of the river.

Still, this angle from the Longfellow Bridge, with its particular composition is one of the city’s best, even in the morning as a rare fog gradually lifts.

I’ve usually left the area before dark, but on one unseasonably warm evening last December, I found myself impulsively walking across the bridge before catching the T home at Charles/MGH station. Sometimes I grumble about having to cross this bridge; more often, I’m just happy to revel in the beauty of my adopted city.