Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New England. Show all posts

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Shadow Shot Sunday - Autumnal Scenes


The sights of Autumn are lovely, although the sky is grayer, the temps colder - but the colors on the Derby CT green were pretty lively two weeks ago. The church is the Second Congregational Church of Derby, whose peaked steeple was toppled during Hurricane Gloria in 1985. The small-town scene contains a shadow or two, and we look at the red and gold foliage knowing that is no more on the trees. Nice views while they lasted...

Saturday, November 7, 2015

SOOC - Bomba Farm

Autumn in New England can be pretty, so for Straight Out of the Camera - SOOC, we are at the over 100-year-old Bomba Farm in nearby Seymour. Two views stand out: On the top, this farm is on the Great Hill, high enough to see Long Island Sound and New York's Long Island over some of the Fall foliage; and, the barn and dairy cows on the rocky and hilly New England landscape. Pastoral autumnal views abound...

Saturday, October 31, 2015

A Revised blog...and Shadow Shot Sunday 2

What gives with Blogger? Since 2007,  Airhead 55 was my blog. but it has begun to act wonky, moving the sidebar below the posts (instead of the right side) and made every word of every post bold italic. I hadn't ordered that change and no amount of editing could change it. So I am creating a new blog which, not surprisingly, is now Airhead-55. Hopefully this layout will work, and perhaps those malevolent Blogger fiends forced necessary updates to the blog ('tho I wasn't rally offered a choice)...

For this Shadow Shot Sunday 2, I offer a pic of a tree taken on Monday in our neighboring town of Seymour. The foliage has peaked this week in Southern New England. And with the heavy rain on Wednesday, a lot of leaves litter the ground. The shadows add a great enhancement to the autumnal beauty we have been blessed with...