In honor of the recent political chaos in Connecticut — land of Richard “Misplaced Words” Blumenthal and Susan “Active Practice (NOT!)” Bysiewicz — I have, as you can see, put up a new blog masthead, above, showing the beautiful view of the State Capitol from the ninth-floor room at the Holiday Inn Express where Becky, the girls and I stayed last week. It’s a panorama stitched together from a number of individual photos I took. I think the window curtains on either side create a nice “framing” effect.
I’ve also got this Fenway Park panorama, which I’ll use at some point. For more photos of our trip — not including shots of the kids, as per usual, with a few exceptions where you can’t really see their faces — click here.
The covered pedestrian bridge at Kent Falls State Park.
Becky and Loyette in silhouette on the bridge, waving at Daddy.
My Dad and a Guinness sign, in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood.
An iPad billboard in Boston.
Night falls over Long Island Sound.
Loyette’s seat belt on the airplane.
That last photo was taken at Loyette’s insistence — “Can I take a picture of my seat belt, Daddy?” — and was sort of a joint effort (her was on the shutter button, along with mine). I actually thought it turned out to be a pretty neat picture. 🙂
Oh, and since this blog is The Living Room Times — named after a Newington High School newspaper of yore — it seems appropriate to post a few pictures of NHS folks:
Tim Stevens and Jaimie (Kwassman) Burns at Newington Starbucks.
Carrie (Ripley) Taylor and me at Avon Starbucks.
Sean Vivier and me in the Holiday Inn Express lobby.
Good times!