Bus Stop

New Haven, Connecticut 

FACE MASKS REQUIRED

Waterbury, Connecticut

WE Have Mask

 

Danbury, Connecticut

KasaNossa

 Naugatuck, Connecticut

OPEN

 

Naugatuck, Connecticut

Around Danbury, III

 

Danbury, Connecticut

Pandemic Signs

Waterbury, Connecticut, 3/3/21

Waterbury, Connecticut, 3/3/21

$1 Face Masks Available

Waterbury, Connecticut, 3/9/21

Ansonia Station

 Ansonia, Connecticut, 2/25/21

Face Mask Required

 

Naugatuck, Connecticut, 2/26/21

Signs from the Pandemic

 Torrington, Connecticut, 2/28/21

GRAND OPENING!

 

Waterbury, Connecticut, 11/21/20

PRAYING FOR YOU

 Naugatuck, Connecticut, 11/6/20

KINDNESS TRAVELS FASTER THAN A VIRUS

Seymour, Connecticut

Positive thoughts during a pandemic.

Masks—Catskill

Catskill, New York

See-saw

 

Bristol, Connecticut

Smoke Sky

 Waterbury, Connecticut

It was not cloudy or overcast around eight o'clock yerterday morning in Waterbury. The sky was pale and attenuated, just barely more blue than neutral gray. Views across the river valley were hazed over almost like a fog. It's nearly three thousand miles from western Connecticut to the West Coast wildfires, but the smoke is here. It's thicker in the upper atmosphere, but at ground level the air doesn't smell right.

Not what an overcast sky looks like around here ordinarily, because it's not an overcast sky.

Warm, sunrise/sunset colors infuse the smoke/haze view across the Naugatuck River valley, nearly three hours after sunrise.

PLEASE STAY IN YOUR VEHICLE

 Torrington Connecticut

A Bit More on that Rally in Southbury

Southbury, Connecticut

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.

Instructions

Torrington, Connecticut