This weekend marked the unofficial peak of fall foliage (natives refer to it as "foilage") around Boston and also the end of a week-long tribute to Monty Python on IFC. In an effort to find a balance between the two, I ambled over to Larch Road in Cambridge. Directly across from Fresh Pond Park, the sleepy little residential street offered a resplendent display of autumn colors as well as conveniently free parking for park-goers without resident parking permits.
There may not be any actual larch trees on Larch Road. Just a neighborhood baseball diamond of the type you might expect to find in a Norman Rockwell painting surrounded by well-groomed single and multi-family homes.
The central feature of the Python sketch in question is a dull-voiced announcer's repetition of the phrase, "And now...the Larch" followed by a still photo of an ordinary-looking tree. Could it be that the larch has gotten a bad rap?
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