Around the Yard

 

A hummingbird clearwing moth.

A widow skimmer dragonfly.

An ebony jewelwing damselfly.

Ruby-throated hummingbirds.

A house wren visiting the house where it was born.

A bee and coneflower. 

Three gray catbirds.

Wilton Street Fair

 The town immediately south of Ridgefield, Wilton has a small downtown where a street fair took place.

Danielle showed off Rocco, an African ball python, one of the animals at Woodcock Nature Center.

The Wilton YMCA had a booth.

Sorry.  I can't explain.

Shasha is from Trumbull.  She makes and markets handmade organic soaps and lotions.

Michael promoted a local running event.

Three teens support a state senate candidate.

There is a face painter at so many local events.

David has quite a face.  Sadly, I was leaving and didn't have time to visit and learn about him.

Veronica's Garden

 Veronica's Garden is a small booth along a busy road in Ridgefield.  It is open seasonally to sell locally grown vegetables.

Bella works there this summer.  She is in high school in Cross River, across the state line in New York.

"Let's have some teeth!"  (Always works, and an iPhone is less intimidating than a DSLR for teens.)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Another visitor to the pollinator garden.

The front pollinator garden has many weeds, but the bees and butterflies don't care, so neither do I.

Men in Black

Albert Bender lived and worked in Bridgeport, Connecticut.  He became a believer in Unidentified Flying Objects and created an organization to study and report on UFOs.  In July 1953 Bender was visited by three Men in Black, aliens from another world, who told him to stop all UFO work, which he did. 

Brad Noble is a Bridgeport artist who painted a Men in Black mural about Bender's visit from the three aliens as part of a Bridgeport mural project.  The mural is just a couple of blocks from where Bender's home stood before it was demolished for an interstate highway project.

Linked to Monday Murals.

St. Joseph Catholic Church

This church sits high on a hillside above the main street in Winsted, Connecticut.

Civil War Monument

 

Coe Memorial Park is a well groomed triangular park in the center of Torrington, Connecticut.

A statue honoring Civil War soldiers is at the point where the park joins the historic district.