Dance Instructor

It fell to Grandpa to teach his granddaughter how to dance.

Elizabeth Park, of course.

"Young at Heart."  The City Daily Photo theme for tomorrow.

Oklahoma!

Terrific songs, terrific performance, terrific singing, terrific dancing.

At Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, Connecticut.  Shown before here and here.

Swing

The band was playing swing music.  Mom took it literally.

Elizabeth Park, of course.

"Young at Heart."  The City Daily Photo theme for August 1.

Run 169 Towns

She runs every year, most of the 5K races I see in Connecticut.  Her shirt tells us she has either run races in every town in Connecticut or has that as a goal.  All 169.  Congratulations.

"Young at Heart."  The City Daily Photo theme for August 1.

The Kids Were Dancing, Too!!!

Some kids needed help from mom.

 Some had enough and were ready to go home.

They Were Dancing at Elizabeth Park!!!

 

While Latanya Farrell sang.

Samuel F. B. Morse

Known today for his invention of the telegraph and Morse Code, Samuel F. B. Morse was originally a skilled artist.  His monumental painting, The Gallery of the Louvre, is on display at the New Britain Museum of American Art.  Owned by the Terra Foundation for American Art,

 the painting has recently undergone a complete and careful restoration. 

While I was there, one of the museum's educators -- Kay -- was discussing the painting with teenagers attending a summer art program.  The kids paid close attention and

weren't shy about answering Kay's questions and offering their own ideas.

Morse put himself at the bottom center of the painting, looking over an art student's shoulder.

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has a place of honor behind him, as do works by Titian, Veronese, Claude Lorrain and others.  Morse painted his friend James Fenimore Cooper 

in the left corner with Cooper's wife and daughter.  

A terrific book about the American emigres who spent time in Paris when Morse and Cooper
were there is David McCullough's The Greater Journey:  Americans in Paris (2011).

People I Met in New Britain's Liberty Plaza

 

Jesse

Tinaza

Joe

Frank

Top of the war monument in Liberty Plaza.

A Day in Ridgefield

Ridgefield had a summer festival in one of the town parks.  Susie carried Hazel.

Willa is an artist, decorating the box that a rooftop carrier came in.

Hazel will be five months old this week. 

Deb

I met Deb while I was giving the grand-dogs some off-leash time in Elizabeth Park.

Deb volunteers for organizations opposed to wild animals in captivity.

She was giving Fiddler some exercise.

Fiddler is a huge Newfoundland.

Deb lives in "the bunny house," which earned its name for obvious reasons.

Three Brick Houses

 

This house has a nice perennial garden in the front yard.

Can you see the squirrel cut-outs in the shutters?

The red tiled roof coordinates well with the red brick façade.

This excellent example of a colonial revival house was probably built in the 1920s.

West End

Three appealing houses in the West End of Hartford.

A Doctor's Office

Very Tudor.

Front Door Planters