Rainstorm at Colonial Plaza

 

Waterbury, Connecticut

2:30 this afternoon.

Eagle Ford

 Ottawa, Illinois, 6/29/12

Bears at Work

 Torrington, Connecticut

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.

Greenhouse, with Weeds

 

Woodbury, Connecticut

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.

Bear

Torrington, Connecticut

One of the shop windows of a large retail space that was occupied by a Salvation Army thrift store for many years, closed a couple years ago.

Truck and Van

Torrington, Connecticut

Waterbury, Connecticut

Shop Windows

Shelton, Connecticut

Corona virus themed front window of an Irish pub.

Gun Shop.

Closed cafe.

BUY PANTEL

Ellenville, New York

CAR WASH

Waterbury, Connecticut

Thomaston Avenue on a dark rainy late November afternoon.

Coming and Going

Bristol, Connecticut

Empty

Shelton, Connecticut

LOVE

Willimantic, Connecticut

Utilities

Bluefield, Virginia

Utility Lines and Poles

Hartford, Connecticut

A gloomy April 1st in Hartford. I expected storms to break out at any moment, but they never did. The dark heavy light was fascinating.

$7.59

Torrington, Connecticut

This gas station has been through several ownerships in just the past few years. I began to wonder why, since it's in a good location on South Main Street, only a few blocks from the center of town, directly across from the old Armory, which is an active recreational center now. Then I thought about the cigarette poster—the latest owners tried to sell more than gas, but in that tiny space they couldn't have carried much merchandise. Of course there is no repair or mechanical work done here. About all you could sell would be gas, smokes, and Slim Jims. And service, of a limited sort. Their advertised gas price was always a nickel or dime higher than other places in the town, but it wasn't self-service; someone came out and pumped your gas, ran your credit card—rare except in New Jersey and Oregon where self-service is illegal. That could have been a ploy to attract the large number of senior citizens who walk indoors, around the basketball court, in the Armory across the street, every day.

Then I remembered that a Cumberland Farms outlet is less than a block away, across the street. It has five or six three-pump islands for gas, and the convenience store is at least a couple thousand square feet with the typical extensive CF range of products. Looks like the business model for a "gas station" simply doesn't work today.

Doorway

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

Rusty Window Bars

Pittsfield, Massachusetts

The storefront is currently unoccupied and I couldn't see what the former business might have been. Click on the picture for a clearer view.

White Fringe, Yellow Curtains

Peekskill, New York

STERLING SUPERIOR

Norwich, Connecticut

FOR SALE

Willimantic, Connecticut