Plein Air

The New Britain Museum of American Art offers lectures on Wednesdays.   The plein air water color painter Bob Noreika was a recent guest.  He picked a location on the museum's front porch to demonstrate how he paints. I learned that a roll of paper towels is an essential tool for a water color painter.

Twins? Sisters? Best Friends?

You tell me.

Mom and Dad are Fans

The pitcher's mother and father attend most of the vintage baseball games.

Vintage Baseball

On Saturdays in the summer, a small group of vintage baseball aficionados gathers at a field in Colt Park in Hartford.  They play a couple of games, one with rules from 1862 and another with rules from 1865.

Globes

More of these reflective globes are for sale in garden centers than in people's yards, it seems.

Extra points for those who find the photographer.

To see other photographers' reflection photos, visit James' blog, Weekend Reflections.

Jorgenson Center

The concert hall at the University of Connecticut's main campus in Storrs is the Jorgenson Center.  It was empty when I sneaked in to stand on the stage. 

"To be or not to be."

Mr. Lincoln and Mrs. Stowe at the Caribbean Festival

The Caribbean festival I showed on Sunday was colorful.  Abraham Lincoln and Harriet Beecher Stowe also attended.  They had an animated discussion about which cellphone plan to buy.