September 30, 2009
Big-E
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September 11, 2009
At the MassMutual Center
Michael Jordan and Dave Robinson at the Hoop Hall Enshrinement Pep Rally.
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September 6, 2009
Worthington Street
I love the flags-as-curtains
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September 4, 2009
Main & Bridge
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August 31, 2009
Court Square Place
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August 25, 2009
Reader
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August 19, 2009
Concert on Court Square
Jibaro from Kultura Borikua - great music on a lovely summer evening.
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August 6, 2009
Bridge Street
Parking for the Thursday night concert at Stearns Square
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August 3, 2009
Sidewalk Sale, Main Street
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Killas Hair Studio, Main
They must be back in business - the magazines are recent (mostly).
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July 28, 2009
State & Main
Barrel check, Crown Fried Chicken.
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July 27, 2009
Wiener-gate
Street vendors at Monday's City Council subcommittee hearing on the hot dog vendor controversy. Below, Mr. Verducci and cart in his accustomed spot on Worthington a few weeks ago, pre-wiener-gate.
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July 25, 2009
Saturday afternoon
Forest Park
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July 16, 2009
Boland Way
Michael Jackson fan, dressed to remember
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City Hall
City Council ante-chamber ceiling
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Bridge Street
Chili dogs
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July 13, 2009
Go Home + Practice (Bridge Street)
I guess they don't like the music from downstairs.
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July 4, 2009
Fireworks over the Memorial Bridge
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June 30, 2009
Local Governance
Mayor Domenic Sarno, City Council President (and announced mayoral candidate) Bud Williams and Governor Deval Patrick at the close of today's return to local governance ceremony, Springfield City Hall. My photo essay is here (City web site).
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Deer in the backyard
He looks skinny.
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June 27, 2009
Manicure mannekins
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June 25, 2009
Downtown
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June 21, 2009
Cinemas, Eastfield Mall
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June 20, 2009
Saturday at the food court, Tower Square
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June 16, 2009
Forest Park at dusk
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June 8, 2009
Monarch Place
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June 6, 2009
River Walk
Photo for the Connecticut River Walk & Bikeway new web page, from Riverfront Park
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May 30, 2009
At the Museum
Sculpture gallery, George Walter Vincent Smith museum at the quadrangle.
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May 23, 2009
Duck pond
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May 21, 2009
Tower Square, after hours
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May 15, 2009
Gifts
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For Rent
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May 13, 2009
Pineywoods Avenue
Another photo taken for the BuySpringfieldNow.org web site
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May 9, 2009
Downtown
More downtown photos in the signs and storefronts gallery.
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McKnight historic district
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May 8, 2009
Visitor
A young red tailed hawk spent some time sitting in the open window of a City Hall office this afternoon.
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April 5, 2009
Belmont
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March 25, 2009
Bride & Groom, City Hall
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December 7, 2008
First snow
Black and white in color.
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December 3, 2008
Stone Wall Tavern, Main Street
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Jewelry/Pawn, Main Street
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November 19, 2008
Harry's Caffe / Buckeye Bros. Smoke Shop
South Main Street
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New boots
Glory, Inc., Main St.
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November 11, 2008
Fort Pleasant, white fence
...after Paul Strand
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November 4, 2008
Election Day
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November 1, 2008
Main Street, (not a) restaurant
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October 20, 2008
At the Library
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October 15, 2008
City Hall
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October 6, 2008
Basketball Hall of Fame
Click photo for enlarge view.
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September 22, 2008
Mist
Fountain, corner of Spruceland Avenue and Florentine Gardens.
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August 9, 2008
Shakespeare in the Park
As You Like It, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Forest Park.
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June 22, 2006
Open
I need a polarizing filter. But first I need a camera that takes filters...
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May 12, 2006
Hall o'Fame
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March 31, 2006
Lunch?
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December 6, 2005
Main Street
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December 3, 2005
Blue sky
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October 31, 2005
Halloween
TV 22 set up the remote truck at Spruceland and Florentine Gardens, and the neighborhood was ready.
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July 21, 2005
Main & Harrison
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June 21, 2005
Throne
This strange gold chair appeared in the bus shelter one morning. Then is disappeared.
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May 26, 2005
Parking lot
He's always hated shopping. Except the grocery store—food he likes.
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May 16, 2005
Yes that was me in the Sunday paper
(But not in this particular photo, as I was the one snapping it.) I got my diploma Saturday, along with a remarkably cool commencement speech and a chance to hang out with all those great people I have been missing since classes ended last fall. I also got an excuse to wear sling-backs and pearls and claim I am better educated than my know-it-all spouse, though he will no doubt maintain that his second degree (BFA) is culturally superior to a mere MS. I got other cool stuff too, but that's enough bragging for now.
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April 24, 2005
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April 18, 2005
The mausoleum at dusk
Forest Park
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April 9, 2005
Car chase
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April 7, 2005
Matoon Street patio
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April 5, 2005
Worthington, near Federal
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February 25, 2005
Closed
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February 24, 2005
Main street
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February 21, 2005
Cafe Savannah
Main Street south of State
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My neighbor's barn
This is the view from my bathroom window. If you want details, you'll have to read them in my other blog (legalities).
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February 20, 2005
Tower Square
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February 17, 2005
Bus stop
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February 3, 2005
Shopping
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January 21, 2005
X-mas tree
I actually got my Christmas tree down out onto the curb in time for the annual pickup day—now that's a first. I think they did it later this year.
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January 20, 2005
Tea aisle
Forest Park Market—more tea than I ever thought possible. Most of the labels are in non-Western alphabets, but from what I can make out, there is a sizable selection of diet-related options. Diet tea?
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September 23, 2004
A Maxfield Parish afternoon
From the street, it still looks like summer, but up here in the treehouse, you can just see the maples starting to turn.
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September 20, 2004
Monday morning downtown
I love these old ads painted on the sides of buildings, dating back to who knows when. This one is on Worthington Street a few doors down from Theodore's. I wonder what the ad rates are for semi-permanent signage?
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June 2, 2004
Picnic
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May 4, 2004
Downtown
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April 23, 2004
Years of misery, explained
I live in the pollen capitol of the northern U.S. Springfield is number seven nationally. After all of the years I have lived in the valley, why was I not aware this particular factoid? File this nugget under things I should have know before I signed the mortgage. Pass the antihistamines...
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April 22, 2004
Serendipity
It's that once-a-year day when the city sends a street sweeper around to clean all that winter sludge out of the gutters, and no cars are parked in front of my house. That never happens.
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April 21, 2004
Painting the town
After work last night I took a good hard look at the front porch I was rhapsodizing about in yesterday's post. It has three bags of leaves on display, a rake and two snow shovels. The vine wreath looks like it belongs in one of the leaf bags. At least the toboggan is not still out there. And the house needs to be painted.
I was naive enough not to realize that having one of these big old shingle-style behemoths painted could cost a five-figure sum until after we'd signed the mortgage. Silly me. So now we're collaring neighbors trying to get the name of one of those painters who do a decent job for under $10K.
My parents managed to snag the elusive Billy Kelly, a man so in demand that he doesn't even bother having a listed phone number. With Billy you get the whole brogue-and-ballad package if he actually agrees to paint your house, but you have to be willing to wait. His truck is going to be parked in front of a lot of other people's houses before he gets around to yours. My mother plied him with stew and soda bread for ages before he actually turned up with brushes and a ladder, and then she blasted the Irish Rovers tapes on her boom box to keep him coming back, along with the stew. The competition is brutal.
I bet Mr. Peppin is still out there, but he stopped doing exteriors when he turned 70.
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April 20, 2004
Porch culture
With yesterday's blast of warm weather, there's not much doubt that it's spring. Time to clean up the yard, tune up the mower and repaint the wicker porch furniture.
I miss my front porch in the winter. I've always thought front porch culture was one of the best things about Springfield neighborhoods - they're just more social than patios or decks in the back yard. And for all the talk about crime in the city, the amount of furniture left out on porches in my neighborhood is pretty impressive (aside from the local political figure who chains hers).
So here's looking forward summer, before it gets hot enough to change my mind: a cool drink on a warm afternoon from the comfort of a tag sale chair on the porch, church bells and salsa music wafting over from the next block. Heaven.
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