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name:

Brenda Holloway

location:

Manchester, CT

gear:

Samsung Digimax L60

started on:

9/24/08 (Day 1332)

about me:

Programmer by day, writer by night, living in the middle of Connecticut.
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The grass on the baseball diamond is green, the dirt is mudtastic and puddlicious. I think that groundhog got it wrong this year; spring is coming early to Connecticut.
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Old Mass Mutual building across the street -- it's been gutted and all the additions removed over the past year and a half or so. The whole back was draped with huge Mylar sheets to protect the insides from the weather. The other day I noticed lights; I guess it's coming back up. I wonder what's going to happen with it?
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Rainy and snowy here this morning, and I didn't bring an umbrella. Good thing my bus stop is near the Travelers headquarters.
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<p>'Safe Arrival', by Frances Wadsworth, who also did the statue for the American School for the Deaf I photographed last month. Commemorates the first colonial settlers in Hartford. </p> <p>I have to be careful with the wording; there were people here previously. There was a Dutch trading post here, and the Saukiag tribe lived in the area.</p> <p>The Saukiag sold the first settlers (from Massachusetts) the land in exchange for their aid in fighting off a couple of more expansionist tribes to the southeast. They are said to have been very satisfied with the deal, but where are they now? Gone, as are their enemies. Better the devil you know... that's a saying the colonists could have taught them, but I imagine the Saukiag learned it on their own. </p> <p>The settlers named Hartford after Hertford, England, and from all accounts, still lived life in much the English manner. Revolution was still more than a century in their future.</p>
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Was standing on the corner, waiting to cross the street, staring at those beautiful windows; had to take a picture. Arches fascinate me.
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Union Station, Hartford, CT.
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Arch helping hold up the railroad bridge just outside Union Station. Look at the keystone. That's a working arch.
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Brickwork arch on the Capitol Center building. Note the layers adding some depth to the facade.
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Goodwin Square, Hartford, CT. The masonry has clearly been painted; that color does not exist in nature. This facade is just over-the-top decorated, and is likely all that remains of the apartment building that was built in that spot in the early 1800s.
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The State House in Hartford, backlit by the late afternoon sun (taken 3/19/2010).
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The Hartford's having a birthday, gonna be a bicentennial, gonna be two hundred years old. Ain't it great.
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Broken escalator at work. Always wondered what those looked like inside!
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The stars of my 7 Day Roguelike game!
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In two months, this will look like paradise.
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The old Colt Firearms factory, Hartford, CT (picture taken 3/19/2010)
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Hartford skyline from the north bridge into the city. This picture was actually taken on the 18th; I am (gasp) backfilling days I took no pictures with extras.
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I noticed this morning that they had opened the Ancient Burial Grounds again, and went in there to take some pictures. I've taken a few of it in winter; now that spring has come, the return of life to the old Colonial cemetary would be a nice contrast. I didn't see anything really picture-worthy. Turning around to walk back to the bus stop, I noticed the reflection of the morning sun reflecting off a glass building onto these buildings. The building on the left has the CVS with those beautiful arched windows on the ground floor that I posted here a couple weeks back. You would be surprised at how close to my bus stop the past several months of pictures have been. Now that it is ALMOST bicycle weather, I'll have lots more locations to photograph! I desperately want to start taking pictures along the Connecticut River, and really am still quite angry with myself that I didn't have the opportunity to photograph it when it was frozen over in the depths of winter.
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The Connecticut River, taken this day from the north bridge into Hartford (looking at the south bridge). I hope to take the mirror picture from the south bridge looking north if I can find out if the pedestrian walkway next to the science center goes entirely over the bridge. Yes, this means I rode my bike to work today. I'd been making excuses all week, and today I found I had run out of them entirely. So I suited up and got pedaling. It was -and is- a gorgeous day out, the absolutely most perfect day to take a lovely Spring ride to work.
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Continuing my love affair with arches, and (with my bicycle and decent weather) no longer shackled to pictures only of bus stops, the entrance to Hartford's Bushnell Park. Bad weather returns next week, unfortunately, but the bicyclists here at work have really taken advantage of the unseasonably warm weather; the bike racks were nearly full when I coasted in this morning.
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Ruins behind Adams Mill, Manchester, CT. The Hockanum River cuts through the background.
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Cat on a chair /yawn. But MY cat! This was before her bath.
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50 State House Square, Hartford, CT. Here's a picture of this building taken in 1906: http://www.emporis.com/application/?nav=image&id=610146. Though everything around this old bank changed, it remains the same.
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Love the crazy reflections you get downtown!
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I was out getting my mail, looked up for a moment, then was running back to the apartment to get the camera.
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Center Church and Travelers Tower, Hartford, CT. This wasn't the light I wanted, but it's what I could get before I had to run to the bus. Yup, until the weather is right for bicycling again, back to taking pictures of places near the bus stop.
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I just don't think I will ever be able to take a decent picture of the moon with this camera.
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Flooding on the Connecticut River after two weeks of rain has completely drowned this riverside park beneath four-five feet of water.
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St. Patrick - St. Anthony Church on the aptly-named Church Street, just one of a number of fantastic churches on that road.
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I couldn't find a name for this piece or its sculptor, so I don't know if it's related to the other standing stones I snapped a couple months back. The stone appears to be the red sandstone native to the Hartford area.
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Railroad tracks coming into Union Station... from BENEATH! Which is more exciting, frankly.
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I look for certain things when judging arches. I like to see a strong keystone and interesting joins between the stones of the arch and the surrounding stonework. These arches in front of the Old State House in Hartford, CT have very interesting joins, but I think I would like to see the keystone make a stronger statement. I give it a B.
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