Saturday, December 08, 2018

Bikes at the Y

Torrington, Connecticut

Interesting to see the building is heading for its hundred-year anniversary. When you walk along the north side of the building you pass huge grated air vents adjacent to the foundation. Especially in cold weather, you smell moist warm air laden with chlorine—it always makes me remember the same smell from the swimming pool at the Y in Montclair, NJ, sixty years ago.

Friday, December 07, 2018

Drive Thru, with Seagull

Waterbury, Connecticut

A dark rainy day. When seagulls come this far north from Long Island Sound it usually means a storm is on the way.

Thursday, December 06, 2018

Battle Ready

Waterbury, Connecticut

I'm so old I remember that once upon a time lawyers were at least discouraged from sullying the profession with crass advertising. Then legal firm ads turned up on the back page of the phone book, back in the 80s—the first one I saw featured a picture of an ambulance which I thought indicated that the firm hadn't hired exactly the best ad agency (the term "ambulance chaser" is not complimentary). Now it's the sides of city buses, and towering billboards meant for the commuters on the elevated passover of I-84, with violent rhetoric (battle ready, really, Dude?) that fits with the current political atmosphere.

Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Picture This!

Torrington, Connecticut

I guess the fire escape was convenient for the tagger.

Monday, December 03, 2018

Power Tower

Litchfield, Connecticut

Interesting light and sky this afternoon at the White Memorial Conservation Center.

Under the I-84 Overpass

Waterbury, Connecticut

St. Anne's church was almost taken out when the I-84 city flyover went through.

Saturday, December 01, 2018

Markings

Waterbury, Connecticut

It would be interesting to decode these markings.