Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow, New York, is a town made famous by Washington Irving's story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.  In that story, the ungainly school teacher is rebuffed in wooing the hand of a beautiful girl at a dance.  Leaving the dance in a vulnerable emotional state, he passes several reputedly haunted places before finally encountering a headless horseman.

Fright is the biggest industry in Sleepy Hollow.  The shops have Halloween all year round, seeming to vie with each other in an effort to be most creatively frightening.

Happy Halloween!

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And, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series last night.

Gull

Yesterday's gull wasn't satisfied crashing the pelican party.  He insisted on his own portrait.

What a prima donna!

Pelicans

Back to Naples and the beach.

A swarm of pelicans.  And one gull.

Two New Britain Avenue Bus Shelters

Back to Connecticut for Monday Mural.  (I haven't seen any murals in Naples yet.)

New Britain is a long street that runs along the southern part of West Hartford.  Two of the bus shelters on New Britain Avenue have murals with trees as the theme.  The top shelter is near the intersection with Newington Road, just outside the Elmwood Senior Center.  The artist is Nan Runde.

The bottom shelter has a mural by Tao and Amy LaBossiere in front of Wolcott Park.  The mural shows birches and lines from the famous Joyce Kilmer poem:  I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree.

Paving Stones

The paving stones for the driveway at a very fancy

high-rise building in Naples form a dizzying pattern
when viewed at an angle.

I read the phrase "look up!" on many photography blogs.

Don't forget to look down, too.

Naples Philharmonic

Keith Lockhart conducting.

Beethoven, Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra

Berlioz, Symphony Fantastique

Photos of the performance are prohibited,

so this was taken near the end of the intermission

as musicians gathered and began warming up. 

Palmettos and Pond

Now that I am back in Naples, I need to search

out more Florida reflections for Fridays.

This photograph was taken near my golf club.

Please click here for more photos with reflections

on James' blog, Weekend Reflections.