Monday, August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020
Saturday, August 29, 2020
Friday, August 28, 2020
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
A Bit More on that Rally in Southbury
It was scheduled for two o'clock so of course I arrived at one forty and sat in the car catching up on email. At about one fifty an enthusiastic young man pulled into the parking lot of the Playhouse Square complex and began to get a table and handout materials from his car and set them up in the adjacent open space at the town's main intersection. (I photographed demonstrations here, in 1991, from competing sides for and against that year's invasion of Iraq.) Suddenly, lots of people showed up right about two. This is a specifically local action. It's the thirteenth week they've held it, and all the locals know how long it takes to drive there. When enough people had come, organizers used a bullhorn to make some announcements and rhetorical points.
A particular point was to stress that this is an independent movement in the town of Southbury, not connected with any widespread organization, though they choose to use the "BLM" slogan as central to their effort.
Someone over in upstate New York is making these bracelets with the names of people (almost all black men) killed by police in questionable circumstances. I didn't get the details but it's a fund raising effort. The woman distributing/collecting ($10 a piece) asked me to take a picture of it, and wanted to put the basket on the ground to get her hands out of the picture. No, I said, it will be much better with your hands holding it out. Oh, of course, silly me, said she.
I'll just let the signs carry it out from here. Do click on any picture to see them much clearer and tighter if you're using a large display.
Monday, August 24, 2020
Sunday, August 23, 2020
BLM Protests in Southbury
The text of the sign the woman in front is holding reads, "EQUAL RIGHTS FOR OTHERS DOES NOT MEAN LESS RIGHTS FOR YOU. IT'S NOT PIE. BLACK LIVES MATTER.
The fallacy of the zero sum game deserves protest. Lest anyone think there were only five folks here, there were more nearly a hundred, to be seen in more pictures later. It's a large intersection at the center of a 15,000 population bedroom community (formerly farm country) and people were trying to socially distance around the corner a couple hundred feet each way. They told me it's the 13th Sunday in a row that they've gathered for this.
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Save the Post Office Saturday
Friday, August 21, 2020
Gold
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Picnic Park
I haven't been getting out to shoot this month, partly because of a minor injury, so it's back to the archive for a while. This picture from a strange town park/playground has always appealed to me but I didn't put it on the blog back in 2012.
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Globe and Chair
Antique mart the morning of August 4, a few hours before the big wind storm came through and knocked out power to most of the state.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020
Sunday, August 16, 2020
Bears at Work
The building for many years housed a Salvation Army thrift store. It's been vacant for a year or so but recently has been undergoing renovation and will be added to an adjacent children's indoor play center—when the pandemic allows such places to open again.
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Summer Weeds and Fields
A steamy hot mid-July afternoon with a storm sky forming to the north, at Steep Rock Macricostas Preserve. You can click on any picture here to get a larger, more detailed view.
Friday, August 14, 2020
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Monday, August 10, 2020
Greenhouse, with Weeds
This greenhouse on Main Street is vacant but not abandoned. It's empty but pretty well maintained, except for the crop of weeds growing up outside. This was shot Tuesday a couple hours before the wind storms came through. We got power back at our place Sunday afternoon, almost exactly five days after the storms took out the grid. Cable internet is still off, so I'm back at the Firehouse to use their WiFi.