Ivy

Old North Cemetery is a small cemetery on North Main Street, just a few blocks from West Hartford Center.  There are two old cemeteries, just a block apart.  I have driven past them for three decades without stopping.

The carved ivy vines and the rough texture on this tombstone caught my attention.  Adolph C. Sternberg was a Republican member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, who died in 1913 at the age of 74.

This post is linked to Taphophile Tragics.

Taste of Hartford

It is restaurant week again.  Many of the good restaurants in Hartford are offering special menus at attractive prices to encourage diners to visit when lots of regular customers are vacationing out of town.

This is Firebox, a popular restaurant at Billings Forge in the Frog Hollow section of Hartford.  In some surveys, Firebox is the top-ranked restaurant in the city.  It emphasizes locally raised foods.

These photos were taken with my little point-and-shoot Canon.  I didn't want to lug the big guy into the restaurant and I didn't know how they felt about photography.

Tiny Dancer

A Taste of the Caribbean festival was held yesterday at Riverfront Park in downtown Hartford.  It was very hot, so I didn't stay long.  But, I did stay long enough to catch dancers in bright skirts.

Naomi

Naomi is a hard-working woman.  She is a home health care aide who works two jobs caring for elderly clients.  Sometimes she comes to the park to relax for an hour between jobs.

Travelers Tower

There are many modern glass-walled office buildings in Hartford's downtown, as well as many older buildings with traditional lines.  I enjoy it when the two collide.  Today's image is of the Travelers Tower bounced off a modern building.


It is Friday, so James' blog Weekend Reflections is again showing photos with reflections.  Take a look.

Watering the Flowers

We seem to have a lot of vintage trucks on Connecticut farms.  On Monday you saw the side of an old truck on a farm in Simsbury, half an hour northwest of Hartford.  Today you see an old truck on a small farm's flower stand in Preston, an hour east of Hartford.  It is a different truck.  I guess I just like them.

Numbers

OK.  I admit it.  As a photograph, this is a nothing.  But, the City Daily Photo bloggers are posting photos today illustrating the theme of "numbers" and I am a team player even if I didn't have a photographically interesting image.

BUT, even though this image is blah, the content isn't.  Over the last eighteen women's college basketball seasons, a University of Connecticut player was named the best player in the nation ten times.  Diana Taurasi was named twice and Maya Moore was named three times.  Two of the players (Rebecca Lobo and Jennifer Rizzotti) have been elected to the Hall of Fame, Rizzotti's election coming just this month.

And, Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, Maya Moore and Tina Charles are on the USA women's basketball team in London this week, along with former UConn teammates Swin Cash and Aisha Jones, heavily favored to win the Olympic gold medal.

You can see more "numbers" photos here.