The Weekend Roundup, 'I'

It is Saturday in the lead-up to Labor / Labour Day, so it's time for Tom's fun meme, The Weekend Roundup. Given the many days of heat and humidity in Southern New England (well, not nearly as hot as Phoenix nor as humid as Houston), the first photos take us away from Summer for a bit...

Beginning with 'I' begins with Icicles and my view Inside of an Icy Rain storm outside our front door from wheelchair height. The pics are from 2011 where we had an unusually cold, snowy and Icy winter.

Industrial. Here are massive fuel tanks along the docks of New Haven Harbor.

Finally, here is a pic of the Intercoastal Waterway taken from the mainland side in Stuart Florida. This is an old print taken in December 1980 (where it was not Icy :). Happy Labor Day!

Shadow Shot Sunday 2 - Winter's Last Gasp

I am tired of the cold temperatures of winter, and given the long term predictions that Spring is here (in feel as well as chronologically), I have to admit its artistry is nice. So for Shadow Shot Sunday 2, here is a look at our back yard last week - and it looks nice. In fact, there has been substantial snow melt this week, so one last look at the season past...

Shadow Shot Sunday - Cardinal

For today's Shadow Shot Sunday 2, I will complain about more snow as March progresses. Tuesdays snow (13in/33cm) ended with hours of sleet that froze and added a frosty crust to the frozen precip (in fact, the feral cats who pass through the back yard walk upon the frozen mess layering the earth). However, show makes for nice shadows of a forsythia and the cardinal underneath that Patti captured with a nice but not perfect point-and-shoot Olympus. Snow...ugh! But shadows on the snow - magnifiqué!

Friday Hunt, 2017.1.9

It is again time for Teresa's fun meme, Friday Hunt. The clues are in as am I now...

Starts with I. Two are presented this week, but are not from this winter, thankfully. The first (L) is Inch - our daughter measured the new snow on January 12, 2011. It was 15 inches (38 cm) that day. Our daughter wielded the tape measure, happily wearing gloves...to the right, taken a couple of weeks later (Jan. 27, 2011) after yet another massive snowfall - the icicles that formed over the gutter. Pretty sky, mean, jagged icicle. Happily, the winter of 2010-2011 passed, as will this winter - even as an Arctic blast is descending on us tonight...

Week's Favorite. Patti went to a Read Across America Day event at Bungay School in neighboring Seymour CT. Here, the school's Principal performs Green Eggs and Ham with the Cat in the Hat in front of the students in the gym. She looks great, although all the moves in high heels may have been a bit uncomfortable...

Nose. This was taken by passenger Patti in 1999 on the Fort Pitt Bridge in Pittsburgh and it is me, looking at the road as my profile is captured. Note the old Three Rivers Stadium in the background. Thanks as always for the meme, Teresa!

Friday Hunt, 2017.1.7

Friday is here  and it's time for this week's installment of Teresa's fun meme, Friday Hunt. She provides the themes, so here we go...

Starts with 'G'. Here is the  Gazebo on the Derby CT green. Not today, but last July when we complained about heat and humidity - which I wouldn't mind today :)

Here is a vehicle we owned a few decades ago, a 1985 VW Golf. It was a fun to drive car, excellent handling. We owned it until 1993 when an errant driver ended its career. Nobody was hurt though...

And here is the Naugatuck River Greenway in Ansonia. Also taken on a hot day.

Week's Favorite is a view outside our patio door yesterday. Just to let myself know it really feels like winter...and looks like it too!

Pink. Like Sky, a pink rug under a pet is a theme. Here from 2004 is our family feline Sir Humphrey of Upland who loved to sit on his pink rug in the garage, perhaps pondering about whatever - or nothing at all. Thanks again for hosting this meme!

Shadow Shot Sunday - Looking Warmer

It is cold in the Winter of 2017 in Southern New England. However, there are days that are unseasonably warm (that is, not quite as chilly). Here we are facing north on the Ansonia River Walk alongside the Naugatuck River. The long southerly sun makes for a great subject for Shadow Shot Sunday 2. It may not be the yellow brick road, but the shadows point the way onward - but not to Kansas, alas, Dorothy and Toto...