Hartford Seminary

The Hartford Seminary building with snow in the foreground is interesting as a study in different shades of white.

I showed it before, last July.  Today Hartford is experiencing rain and the forecast is for high temperatures Tuesday and Wednesday before a cold front returns on Thursday.  The snowpack should start melting, so flooding will be a concern.  Hartford has had 84 inches of snow so far, making it one of the five snowiest winters of all time.  And March is still to come . . .

Ice Tree

This little tree looked good with a light ice coating.  This is from the archives.

West Hartford Town Hall

West Hartford Town Hall is down the street from First Church and the town library.  (I skipped over some restaurants and stores, but I will get to them eventually.) 

This red sculpture in front of West Hartford Town Hall is an untitled work by Charles O. Perry, placed on the grounds in 2008.  In doing research to learn who made this piece, I learned that Mr. Perry died just two weeks ago at the age of 81.

Yesterday it rained and sleeted, after more snow a few days ago.  There is still plenty of snow on the ground, although it is getting dirty.  This is from the archives, when the snow was cleaner and prettier.

Noah Webster Library

A library and a church stand side-by-side in West Hartford Center.  The library is named for Noah Webster, a native of West Hartford, who wrote a dictionary that -- through multiple editions -- is still in use today as the Merriam-Webster dictionary.  The banner photo on this blog gives a peek at Mr. Webster, the library and the church.  I showed you Mr. Webster standing in front of the library last August.  You can expect to see them again.

First Church

You saw First Church of Christ Congregational reflected in a bank window earlier this month.  I think it deserves its own post.

The church is in the middle and left of this photograph; the West Hartford town library is the brick building to its right.  From the 1940s through the 1980s, this was one of the most successful Protestant churches in New England, with a huge congregation.  In the last two decades, rifts developed within the congregation and some of the senior ministers turned over in just a couple of years, so the congregation today is a bit smaller.  It is working to regenerate itself.

Senate Chambers

This is another perspective of George Washington and the Senate chambers in Hartford's Old State House.

George Washington

Happy birthday to George Washington, who was born on February 22, 1732.

This is one of many portraits of Washington by Gilbert Stuart.  It hangs in Hartford's Old State House, in the former chambers of the Connecticut Senate.