Old Lyme

 

Old Lyme had its Mid-Summer Festival this weekend.  I expected to be showing

photographs from the festival, but all of my people pix were awful.

So, instead, here are some of the houses on Lyme Street.

We all have days like that.

Om Street Yoga

For the fourth straight year. West Hartford closed LaSalle Road for a couple of hours

early yesterday so more than 1,000 yoga enthusiasts could convene for morning exercises.

Yesterday I made a boo boo and posted these photos for several hours on the same day my post

about Eleanor was already running.  If you saw this post yesterday,

please go back and visit Eleanor.

Eleanor

Eleanor is a social worker.  To earn some extra money, she works

in a clothing store on Saturdays.  Eleanor has loved riding horses since
she was a little girl.  This year she got her own horse, Irish Mist, which she calls Frosty.

56 Arbor Street: Medley

Bill and his son Ross operate the Jumping Frog Bookstore on the first floor

of 56 Arbor Street.  Most of their business is in internet sales.

Art Connection Studio is a nonprofit community art center and gallery.  They

serve their residential adult clients -- individuals with developmental, psychiatric, addiction or behavioral challenges -- with an interest in creating art.  Tara (left) manages operations and

the studio.  Chrissy and Katie are art therapists.

Dave is a labor lawyer with offices at 56 Arbor Street, the former home of
Underwood Typewriters.  He likes the creative atmosphere in the building.

And Aisha wraps hula hoops with brightly colored tape and sells
them under the name Hartford Hoops.

56 Arbor Street: Real Art Ways

Real Art Ways is a wonderful arts venue located in the rear of 56 Arbor Street.
It offers visual and performing arts, cinema, public art, education, and live social events.

After years of fundraising, they recently replaced their old movie projectors
with new digital equipment.  As a creative art space, R.A.W. put the

old projectors out in the entry,

as a kind of industrial

art form.

(iPhone photo.)

56 Arbor Street: Hartford Prints

Hartford Prints is a small letterpress studio and stationery store with its production activities at

56 Arbor Street and a retail shop on Pratt Street.  It is owned by three sisters,

none of whom were there when I visited.  I will have to go back.

But, three of the employees were there.  Kait operates the press. 

Christa is a designer.

Lauren, too. 

56 Arbor Street: Louise

Louise operates a center for training sharper thinking and creativity in the old

Underwood Typewriter Company building at 56 Arbor Street in Hartford.

It is too late for Louise's center to do any good for my mind and me.