Braza

Braza is a Brazilian restaurant on Farmington Avenue in Hartford's West End.  It is housed in a former movie theater.

In our area, many older movie theaters have become obsolete as theater operators turn toward multi-screen facilities.  This theater succumbed to competition from a 14-screen movie theater about one mile away.

Braza is a pretty good restaurant.  I'm glad the building was converted to a new use.

Photographer

Shhhhh.

I think he is going to get a good picture.

Weekend Reflections: Doubles

This window had an interesting effect.  It doubled the reflected images.  Kind of cool, isn't it?

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Florence Griswold House

The Florence Griswold House is a museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut.  The house backs up to the Lieutenant River, a tributary of the Connecticut River.

The Griswold House was home to many excellent landscape painters at the turn of the 20th century.  Ms. Griswold inherited the house from her previously wealthy family.  To make ends meet, she began taking in artists as boarders.  Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf and Guy Wiggins are among the artists who lived at or visited the colony.

The artists became known as the Lyme Art Colony and Ms. Griswold's house became the center of Impressionism in America.

This painting of the house is by Matilda Browne, one of the few women artists associated with the Lyme Art Colony.

Connecticut State Capitol

You get a peek at Connecticut's State Capitol in the banner to this blog.  Here it is from a more direct perspective.  (This photo was taken in late summer, before our trees turned red or yellow and then lost their leaves.)

Tuesday was a mid-term electon in Connecticut and elsewhere in the United States.  Big changes are happening.  It will be interesting.

Vote

Today is Election Day.  Change is in the wind.  It is going to be interesting.

This is the front of Hartford City Hall.

Theme Day: Union Station

Union Station is the main train and bus station serving Hartford.  The building dates to the 1880s; it underwent a substantial renovation 20 years ago.  Along the way, it was given a huge and colorful tile mural by the late artist Cleve Gray.  The mural is 686 feet long . . . you see only a part.

The November theme for daily photo blogs is "public transportation." 
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