On September 18th we headed up to Somers, CT to attend the Four Town Fair – one of the better smaller country fairs in this part of the state. Plus this fair hosts one of my favorite events to photograph – cowboy mounted shooting, something that combines horseback riding and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
17 posts
Back on the 12th of September we met up with my parents, my sister and her family at the Coventry Farmer’s Market, which is held down on the Nathan Hale Homestead in Coventry, CT. When we left the house, we were expecting a typical farmer’s market (like the one here […]
I guess I’m really slacking lately. I just realized that I haven’t been putting posts up here for biweekly iterations of Trackside with TRAINS.com since the original post (here). Even though it’s a bit late, as of today voting is still open for Volume 148, whose subject is Tangent Tracks. […]
On the evening of September 11, 2010 all four of us headed out for an evening of food, beer (only for Jill & I) and music. A friend of ours’ band – The Brothers Donovan – was playing at Fred’s Brick House in Willimantic. Since it’s an all-ages restaurant, and […]
On the morning of September 11th, I asked my daughters if they’d like to come out with me to shoot an ethanol train (OK, I didn’t say “ethanol” since they’re 5 and 7, and have no idea what ethanol is). The older one said “naw, I want to stay with […]
On the day after my birthday, September 10th, I headed out in the morning for a bit to shoot a little, despite the cloudy weather. But as usual, I never let the weather conditions discourage me from shooting, and in fact, I think it helped in one case.
I decided to take the week of Labor Day off from work, and that week coincidentally also contained my birthday (it was the 20th anniversary of my 21st birthday – doesn’t make me feel as old saying it that way). And on that day, after Jill & I put the kids on […]
On September 7th, the Providence & Worcester Railroad ran an extra from Worcester, MA down to Groton, CT, and I managed to photograph it between Central Village and Groton, while running into a couple other photographers along the way. This is going to be one of the more vague posts, […]
Still getting through the backlog of stuff. Now we’re up to last Monday – Labor Day – where we did a couple family chases. Both were quite spur of the moment, but both were not successful. On the other hand, without the failure, the successful one probably would not have […]
As Hurricane Earl was approaching the east coast, the weather-geeks were doing their usual “the sky is falling – go out and buy bread and milk” hype. Looking at the track of the storm, I figured it would be prudent to change my train home from Friday evening to Saturday […]