WARREN CONNECTICUT – My birthday. We celebrated with a family dinner at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, but no pictures from there. Earlier in the day I took a long walk in with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summicron lens.
On this day on year ago: 59th Street Bridge.
SOUTHBURY CONNECTICUT – Here’s another installment in my project of photographing churches in Litchfield County Connecticut. This is the Southbury Congregational Church. See the gallery to the right. According to the Church’s website:
The Southbury Congregational Church was founded in 1732.
It occupied several sites until a third church was built on the present site in 1844. In 1923 the members voted to federate with the Methodist, and from 1923 until 1957 this church was known as the Federated Church of Southbury. The Federated Church served the spiritual needs of the community until the Methodist Conference requested that the federation be dissolved. In 1957 the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church joined to form The United Church of Christ, and in 1966 the members of this church voted to join the new denomination. At that time the name of the church became The United Church of Christ, Southbury.
Captured with my Leica M9 and a 50mm Summilux lens; three frames stitched.
On this day last year: Once again the Chrysler Building.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We’re having a vey late spring. My photo from April 24, 2010 shows our pear trees and a bunch of flowering shrubs in bloom. See yesterday’s post. This year we only have forsythia – the earliest of the large flowering shrubs. Here’s a forsythia captured on a rainy Monday morning before I drove back to New York with my Leica M9 and a 24mm Summilux lens.
On this day one year ago: One Rock, at night in the fog.
WAREN CONNECTICUT – Here we are in Warren doing the same thing that I often do in Manhattan: look up. We get a structural view of the deciduous canopy. In the summer the leaves almost totally obscure the sky. I’ll take more of these as the trees leaf out. Taken with my Alpa TC, 60 meg Hasselblad back and my 36mm Schneider APO lens.
On this day one year ago: Forsythia. This winter was much worse than last. The Forsythia are no where near blooming.
WARREN CONNECTICUT – We still have major snow drifts left where the roof was cleared and the snowplow pushed snow. This with my Alpa, 60 meg Hasselblad back and Schneider 36mm APO lens.
On this day one year ago: “winter loosens its grip”. No such luck this year. We had a much worse winter.
NEW PRESTON CONNECTICUT – Driving back from a real estate closing I stopped at the cemetery an New Preston. The Civil War had profound impact on these small New England towns and villages – many have memorials to the war dead. Taken with my Alpa TC, a 36mm Scheider APO and 60 meg Hasselblad back.
On this day last year: Emmet Gowin photograph.
DANBURY CONNECTICUT – We spent Saturday night with our friends Bunny Beekman and Bill Beekman, along with Luke Pontifell, The founder of Thornwillow Press. From breakfast on Sunday morning with my Panasonic GH2 and a 20mm pancake lens.
On this day one year ago: More birches.
