Flags

 The Ridgefield Library and Ridgefield Guild of Artists have a Community Flag Art installation at the Lower Level of Ridgefield Library.

Very cute.

Lounsbury House

 Lounsbury House is the former home of a Connecticut governor.  He loved the Connecticut house at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago so much he had a duplicate built on Main Street in Ridgefield.

These days Lounsbury House is primarily an event space.  I like the way it gets fitted up for holidays.

Squam Lake

 The July 1 theme for City Daily Photo participants is "water."

For one or two summer weeks for many years, my family has headed to Rockywold Deephaven Camps on Squam Lake in Holderness, New Hampshire.  We leave on Saturday for this year's visit.

It is beautiful up there.  It is where my kids and my grandchildren learned to dive.

And one of the most fun events is the Wacky Canoe Races on Thursday mornings.

Wood and Stone

 

A very neat stone wall.  A wooden gate.  A wooden barn.  And a small stone building.  All make an appealing scene with mixed textures on Umpawaug Road in Redding.

Farmer's Market

In the summer there is a Saturday farmers market on the ground of a local Ridgefield church. 

Ann Marie sells salt crystals.  I told her I like to sprinkle olive oil and salt on steaks before grilling.  She immediately recommended a merlot sea salt from Sicily.  I bought it.

A coffee vendor was VERY busy.

The Hickories is a favorite farm in Ridgefield.  I don't think we have ever passed a Hickories booth without buying something.

A flower vendor paid undivided attention to a young customer.

I remember a crowded hummus booth last year.  It was crowded again last Saturday.

Arts Festival

 Ridgefield is having an arts festival in Ballard Park yesterday and today.  There was a lot of good art, but attendance was down because of competing events and light rain.

I told Audrey she was born in the wrong century.  She paints dark realistic works that would appeal to Edgar Allen Poe.  Her frames are gold and ornate.  And she feeds a pair of black vultures.  Audrey has an amazing face.  When I asked to photograph her, she made a funny face that I captured.

Audrey smiles like a normal person most of the time.  (I felt obligated not to show only the first one.)

I suspect this young man is the son of the artist.  He was bored minding the tent, so he twirled constantly.

OK, they have nothing to do with the art.  I just liked the composition.

License Plates Amuse Me!

 Some more license plates that interested me.

This is a new favorite while the Tartan Army is charming everyone during the World Cup.

A guy is very proud to drive an electric vehicle.

At every Brown University sporting event, one hears a fight song that begins, "We are Ever True to BROWN For we love our college dear . . ."  Don't blame me.  I didn't write it.

Someone else needs to explain this one.  But, you notice it, don't you?  (That is UConn Husky image.)

He is either bragging that he is driving a Full Self Driving Tesla or he is warning us!

Selling below investment grade securities is probably lucrative.  But, on your license plate?