Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

 There have been a gazillion bees, but now butterflies are showing up.

Seven Cousins for a Horse

A local company, Thrown Stone Theater Company, has just finished the run for its newest play.

The play and the performances got great local reviews. 

Seven Cousins for a Horse is about the prolific portrait painter, Ammi Phillips, who rode around Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York for the fifty years between 1810 and the early 1860s, painting more than 2,000 portraits.  Phillips' portraits today hang in many of the country's best museums.

Roie

You are Roie if your little sister can't pronounce Rosemary when you were both young.

Now retired, Roie was a nurse.  She also gives psychic readings.  

I met her when she was on one of her long daily walks.

 

Yellow Victorian

A pretty yellow Victorian house sits on Main Street in Kent, Connecticut.

 I grew up in a yellow Victorian house, so I am partial to them.

First Congregational Church of Kent

 

White Protestant churches are all over New England.  

This church on Kent's main street is a bit fancier than most.

Bulls Bridge

 The Housatonic River in western Connecticut is raging after all the rain we have had.

It is overflowing Bulls Bridge's dam.  Bulls Bridge is a 7 megawatt hydroelectric plant.

Carousel Museum

 After we finished at New Britain Museum of Art, we were only 20 minutes away from the Carousel Museum in Bristol.  So we went.

It turns out that not all carousel animals are horses.

Even pigs and tigers.

One area was devoted to animals in the process of being repaired and painted.

There was even a working carousel for kids to ride, accompanied by earsplittingly loud music.

I particularly liked this donkey.