Snow Flurries

Torrington, Connecticut

One of my favorite kinds of light is the effect you get just as it begins to rain, or just as a rain tapers off to nothing. Everything seems to take on a glow at those moments. Oddly, I haven't found the same thing to be true for the beginning or end of snow storms, but this one time something special happened to the light just as the snow flakes began to swirl.

Worldwide Services

Shelton, Connecticut

Yoga at the Tire Store

Watertown, Connecticut

Storm Coming In

Waterbury, Connecticut

A seagull cruises inland, twenty miles upriver from the Sound, with an overcast sky dark enough to keep the automatic lights on. Later, twenty miles farther up river, a second front churns in from the north. More snow on the way

Torrington, Connecticut

Two More from the Inauguration

Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Two Windows

Torrington, Connecticut

Torrington, Connecticut

Open Sunday

Bristol, Connecticut

Sports Car

Torrington, Connecticut

Just how, I wonder, does someone entitled to a handicapped parking permit get in and out of this thing?

Angels

Torrington, Connecticut

Torrington, Connecticut

Two from Town Plot

Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Inauguration at the Mattatuck

Waterbury, Connecticut

The Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, CT, invited the public into their third floor auditorium to watch the presidential inauguration projected on a large screen. It was a capacity crowd filled with enthusiasm.

Someone had brought a cardboard cutout Obama figure, and on the way out many people wanted their pictures taken with the presidential stand-in.

Waterbury, Connecticut

Buildings

Bristol, Connecticut

Bristol, Connecticut

Empty Factory Buildings

Torrington, Connecticut

Rain at Town Plot

Waterbury, Connecticut

I like Goin on Swing

Torrington, Connecticut

Bulletin board at the Torrington Armory

Front Step Barbeque

Torrington, Connecticut

Welcome

Waterbury, Connecticut

Well, one of the signs does say "welcome."

Basketball at the Armory

Torrington, Connecticut

Field House Doors

Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Stately Floors

Bristol, Connecticut

Torrington, Connecticut

Windows

Bristol, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Congress Ave. Laundromat

Bridgewater, Connecticut

Interior

Bristol, Connecticut

Pavement

Torrington, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Side Yard

Waterbury, Connecticut

Tennis Courts

Waterbury, Connecticut

Washington Depot, Connecticut

Art Association Opening

Washington Depot, Connecticut

Bristol, Connecticut

Storefront

Waterbury, Connecticut

Walls

Waterbury, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Billboards

In late December these billboards began to show up all over the Waterbury, CT, area. I'd never seen them elsewhere, and haven't traveled enough in the last couple of weeks to know whether they can be found over a wider region. I did notice that the placements are in pretty good retail locations where the outdoor advertising firms seldom have to fill space with public service ads.

Waterbury, Connecticut

Torrington, Connecticut

Beauty

Amid the problems on so many fronts around the world at the start of 2009, let's keep looking for bits of beauty wherever they can be found.