Yesterday was Ridgfield's seventh year participating in Make Music Day.
Willow Bradford is a junior in high school in the adjoining town of Redding. She played rock and jazz classics on the keyboard in front of Ridgefield Town Hall.
A snowbird shows photos from southwest Florida (Naples) and southwest Connecticut (Ridgefield) and New England and other places he goes.
Yesterday was Ridgfield's seventh year participating in Make Music Day.
Willow Bradford is a junior in high school in the adjoining town of Redding. She played rock and jazz classics on the keyboard in front of Ridgefield Town Hall.
We took the granddaughters to Yale's Peabody Museum on Wednesday.. The museum re-opened recently after a four-year renovation. It was magical. I don't know if the children or grandpa enjoyed it more.
This is a new mural by Michael Rice on the back side of a parking garage on Asylum Avenue in Hartford.
Linked to Monday Mural.
While I was away, new neighbors moved in.
They keep coming to my front door, but whenever they see me approach, they leave fast.
All week we have walked past these unlit structures along Polignano's main streets and piazza.
For the weekend, they have been lit, to honor St. Vito, the town's patron saint.
I have been staying in Polignano, a town on the Adriatic, and taking day trips to other towns in Apullia.
Domenico Modugno, a Polignano native, wrote and sang Volare. His home town is very proud of him. Everyone who passes his seaside statue has to be photographed echoing his joyful expression.
At night, streets with Volare's lyrics are lit from above.
Looking back at the hotel from the bridge.
I took a quick trip to Monopoli, a charming town on the Adriatic Sea, but my timing was bad. Several of the features I would have liked to see were closed from noon to 4 p.m.
Boats in an inlet beside Castello Carlo V, a seaside fortress from the 16th century.
I rarely pass up a chance to photograph a nice deus chateaux.
Matera is a very old city inland from Bari. People have lived in Matera since the Palaeolithic period, a time when woolly mammoths roamed the earth and the last Ice Age was winding down, about 15,000 B.C.
Spending some time in Apulia (or, as the Italians say, Puglia), the heel of Italy's boot.
The technique dates back to prehistoric times.
Some of the structures in Alberobello date back as far as the 14th century.
The trulli of Alberobello were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1998.