Flowering Trees

I have been enjoying the many spring-flowering trees in Southwestern Connecticut. 

I pass this house and tree at the southern end of Ridgefield's Main Street all the time.  

The tree is a redbud.  

Funeral Cortege

I was in Bridgeport.  Horses pulling a white carriage were coming in my direction, followed by a dignified line of cars that might have been three blocks long. 

I don't know who the deceased person was, but it must have been an honored person in Bridgeport.

United Church of Christ

 

This church on North Avenue in Bridgeport originally served a Hungarian congregation, beginning in the early part of the 20th century.  After a series of mergers with other denominations, it became a Congregational church, but with strong remaining Hungarian traditions.

Moving On

My Ridgefield house was listed for sale yesterday.   It was a great place to live in the summer for the past six years after 40 wonderful years in West Hartford. 

 The daughter and granddaughters are just 20 minutes up the road.  We are lucky to see them often.  We are moving to an apartment in a senior housing complex in the next town.  The family will still be close.

Fruit

This was a dessert in Rome more than a decade ago.

 

In 2016 we toured the Baltic Sea on a Viking Ocean Cruise.  This was a dessert on that trip to celebrate my birthday.

The May theme for City Daily Photo participants is "fruit."  Click here to see other interpretations.

Colorblends House and Gardens

 

Colorblends is a Bridgeport-based wholesaler of daffodils, tulips and other spring-flowering bulbs.  

The lovely garden at their 1903 Colonial Revival house is worth a springtime visit. 

Chenlu Hou and Chiara No: "What the Hands Remember to Hear"

 

Hou and No draw upon their Chinese heritage to create ceramic works that bring to mind bells and sounds.  Both artists make objects that suggest sound's potential to invoke ceremony and shared histories across cultures and time.

I particularly liked No's bell-shaped creations.  Some were hung against the wall and I thought the shadows enhanced them. 

Hou's vivid sculptures reference Chinese folklore and ritual vessels, Buddhist and Taoist temples, and memories of home.