Garden Open Day in Avon

This garden is the second one I visited last Saturday during the The Garden Conservancy's Open Day.   It is on a main street in Avon, a Hartford suburb.  I saw it often when I lived in West Hartford.  Then it was full of colorful plants like the ones in front.  Since then the owners have planted many conifers.

A young girl chose a good time to run through.

Yes, the gardens are stunning.  But wait until you see inside the house tomorrow!!!

Garden Open Day in Canton

Last Saturday I visited a home in Canton, Connecticut, with magnificent gardens.  It was open for visits as part of the Open Day program of The Garden Conservancy.

The garden is densely planted with unique floral plants.

I knew the owner, Sue, when she had a photography blog focused on her previous home and garden in Wethersfield, Connecticut.  She married Dave and moved to his house in Canton a decade ago.  All of this lush garden has been created in just ten years!

Sue is in green, beside her friend Deanna.  Good work, Sue.  Your gardens are stunning.

Murals on the Noah Webster Library

 

I May be the First Woman

But I won't be the Last

The new dawn blooms as we free it

For there is always light

If only we are brave enough to see it

If only we are brave enough to be it.

This 2021 mural by Corey Pane is on the side of the Noah Webster Library in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Linked to Monday Murals.

West Hartford is proud of its native son, Noah Webster, a Yale graduate who wrote the "Blue Back Speller" and the predecessor to the Merriam-Wedster Dictionary.   

First Church Congregational

 An impressive Protestant church stands on a prominent corner of West Hartford Center.

Purple

 Keeler Tavern is a historic site in Ridgefield, where a Revolutionary War skirmish took place.  

There are lovely gardens behind the buildings.

"Purple" is the August theme for City Daily Photo participants.  

Click here to see other interpretations.

Rockefeller Center

 In New York City recently, I walked past Rockefeller Center.  Once again I was stunned by the interesting and beautiful sculptures.

Atlas is a collaboration between two famed artists, Lee Lawrie, who envisioned and designed the figure, and Rene Chambellan, who modeled the statue from Lawrie's sketch. In Greek mythology, Atlas was a half-man, half-god giant known as a Titan, who helped lead a war against the Olympic gods. After the Titans' defeat, Atlas was condemned by Zeus to carry the world on his shoulders as punishment.

The doors are massive and stunning.  I had time limitations, so I didn't have the time to study each one.  Oh well, I will be back.

The Society of Pope Pius X

The Society of Pope Pius X is a fundamental Catholic sect.  It has been criticized as being anti-Jew and anti-Muslim, opposing interactions with other religions except to preach conversion. Last month Pope Leo excommunicated members of the sect after it ignored his directions and consecrated four new bishops.

Christ the King Church in Ridgefield is run by the Society of St. Pius X.  

It has had a presence in town since 1978.  

The sect broke with the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council in 1965, objecting to reforms like normalization of relations with other religions and the use of languages other than Latin in masses.