The Goat

This goat has been nibbling at that lilac tree as long as I can remember.

Dragon Boat Races

The thrill of victory.

The objective is to row TOGETHER!

Silas W. Robbins House

This impeccably painted and maintained inn is on the Green in Wethersfield.  The Trip Advisor comments about the inn are full of superlatives.  28 of 29 ratings are "excellent."  The other is "very good."  The complaint from the one dissenter?  They showed up for breakfast at 10 a.m. and it was over.

A link to the inn's website is here.

Sue left an interesting comment yesterday about the inn and its renovation.

Fountain

Wethersfield Green runs for a third of a mile.  There are many classic old homes, as well as many newer houses. 

This fountain is on the lawn of a gorgeous bed and breakfast inn.  You will see more of the inn tomorrow.

Geometry

I have done something similar before, but I liked it then and I like it now.

This is the Hartford Steam Boiler building, also known as One State Street.

If you like reflections, please visit James' blog, Weekend Reflections.

Butter and Sugar Corn

Locally grown butter-and-sugar corn is available at farm stands and stores now.  When I see it, I have to stop.  (OK, when I see fresh apple or cherry or strawberry rhubarb pies, I have to stop for them, too . . . you got a problem with that?)

Kyla works at the little family-owned Anderson Farms stand on the Wethersfield Green.  I talked Kyla into letting me take her picture, but Haley ran away.

The Weir Family

The New Britain Museum of American Art is showing an exhibition of work by Connecticut's multigenerational Weir family of painters.  The first prominent painter in the Weir family was Robert W. Weir.  His best known painting is Embarkation of the Pilgrims, on display at the U.S. Capitol.  This exhibition had a smaller version of the same painting.

Weir's portrait showed a man with longish gray hair and a beard.  A man with longish gray hair and a beard walked past, so I asked him if he minded posing with it, to simulate looking in a time-warping mirror.

After I took the picture, I discovered my model was Bob Noreika, the water color plein air artist shown yesterday.