Newburyport, MA

Yesterday, after having been cooped indoors for a day short of a week, we decided to use up my Zipcar credit to rent a car to Newburyport, in the northern part of Massachusetts, just before the state line of New Hampshire. My friend, Naoko, had mentioned it to me and when I checked it out online, it seemed pretty enough to warrant a visit.
The drive is about an hour long, and because it's winter, we were pretty much restricted to indoor activities like SHOPPING!, not that I'm complaining...but after a while, you just don't want to shop anymore, which was the way I felt when we dropped by a mall on the way back to Boston. The harbour and coastline at Newburyport is supposed to be very nice, but it was too cold for us to check out. The architecture is beautiful, somewhat like Portsmouth's. I really like going to small towns where one is prone to find hidden treasures and nice old style delis and shops.
State St is one of the main streets downtown Newburyport. It was lovely at dusk.
A posed shot of Meg walking in a weird way with an interesting alleyway behind.
Another view of that same alley.
Isn't the architecture and the colour of the buildings lovely?
Photographer in action. Some of the pix on my blog are shot by MJ, though I don't credit, haha.