More Halloween

 Waterbury, Connecticut

VFW Post—ready for Halloween

 Seymour, Connecticut

SOCIAL HOUR

 

Torrington, Connecticut 

Seems to be a combination of art gallery and coffee house.

A Walk at Steep Rock, Part II

 

Washington, Connecticut

A Walk at Steep Rock, 10/23/20

Washington, Connecticut

Rainy day light.

Click on any of the pictures for a larger, clearer view.

 

Great Man Cave Item

 Torrington, Connecticut

This, That, and Other Things, store.

KINDNESS TRAVELS FASTER THAN A VIRUS

Seymour, Connecticut

Positive thoughts during a pandemic.

PROM QUEEN

Torrington, Connecticut 

NO SWIMMING

Seymour, Connecticut

You'd think the instruction would be unnecessary, but there it is.

Weeds and Moon

Torrington, Connecticut  

Click on the picture for a larger, clearer view. Sometimes you can get the details of the moon's surface at the same time you get a realistic exposure for what's down here on earth.

BE THE FRIEND YOU WANT TO HAVE

 Torrington, Connecticut 

Blue Lights

 

Torrington, Connecticut

I don't know whether the lights from the town or some sort of art installation. 

PUSH BUTTON FOR WALK SIGNAL

 Waterbury, Connecticut 

MoneyGram

Waterbury, Connecticut

Riverside Dr

 Shelton, Connecticut

Grand Brook Reservoir

 

Waterbury, Connecticut

ROAD CLOSED

 

Shelton, Connecticut

EVER-GREEN

 Shelton, Connecticut

Dog in the Window

Shelton, Connecticut

First step

 

Waterbury, Connecticut

Unsettled?

 

Waterbury, Connecticut

Yoga Studio

Shelton, Connecticut

The barber pole must be from a previous incarnation.

Early Morning

 Ansonia, Connecticut

Shelton, Connecticut

Two Swans on the Housatonic River

 

Shelton, Connecticut

Fire Hydrant

 

 Kingston, New York

In case anyone wasn't sure.

Decorative Plant

 

Ansonia, Connecticut

Open 6 days a week. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, combos. Wait, combos? Is that like, brunch?

CENSUS! VOTE!

 

Kingston, New York

Quart Cocktails?

Kingston, New York

Just the thing to start your day.

In the Rain

 

Waterbury, Connecticut

Early this morning, near the Courthouse. The combination of early morning light and the reflectivity of wet pavement is wonderful to work with.

Headquarters

  Ansonia, Connecticut

The pawn shop went out of business and the space was empty for a while, then the campaign took it on, at least for now.

PLANET WINGS

Kingston, New York

This place closed before the pandemic, but despite a lot of urban renewal and even gentrification along Broadway, there's no sign of another fast food outlet taking over the building.

Cars and Boats

Kingston, New York

Not quite ready for the road, or river.

No. 1 HOUSE CHINESE RESTAURANT

 Kingston, New York

START A NEW CAREER IN WEEKS - NOT YEARS

 Seymour, Connecticut

Yesterday at dawn the sky was absolutely bald so I didn't get the shots I was planning on. They wouldn't work with no cloud or color in the sunrise sky. Seymour is a Naugatuck Valley town and the business district sits very close to the steep East wall of the valley, so even 50 minutes after official sunrise, only the tallest buildings were getting direct sunlight.

detail

It's worth noting that with the state of our national response to the pandemic, one's allied heath career stands a decidedly non-zero chance of also not lasting for years.

EXPECT BIKES

 Kingston, New York

Not clear what is to be expected of them. Something to do with a bike lane on a one way street?

Early Morning, Ansonia

 Ansonia, Connecticut

In 1955 the whole Naugatuck River Valley and Housatonic River floodplain suffered huge losses of life and property in a massive flood. One of the responses by authorities was to create a series of flood control walls which are particularly prominent in the town of Ansonia. I've been working on a series of pictures featuring the flood wall, which proves a little difficult because after all, it's just a poured concrete wall with a few massive steel gates that can close off a couple roads and the railroad tracks on the east side of the river. Recently I thought working with very early morning autumn light might be interesting, and these are some of the results.