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Then a stop at Lucy’s Luncheonette.

🍞 www.letsgo2lucys.com/about

(Next time, Con Leche
“Latin American inspired latte with steamed evaporated milk and a sprinkle of cinnamon.”)
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Along the way.

Learned about 15-yeor-old, Private Daniel H. Otis, Company B, 14th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, Army of the Potomac.
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
From the back of his business card:

“I have been a member of the New York High School Rodeo team. I have qualified and competed at the Junior High School Worlds competition twice!



“I learned to weld when I was 9. I am using my welding skills to make and sell my horse shoe crafts.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The maker is 14.

Horseshoes crafted into owls among his creations. Rodeo and welding, passions.
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Higganum's Yuletide Marketplace.
Locally handcrafted month-long market w/ more than 40 vendors at St. James Parish Hall on Rt. 81, Higganum, CT.
November 15, 2025 at 6:43 PM
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“A farm boy, Pliny Moody, came across the trackways in 1802. They were popularly regarded as bird footprints and they were so identified by the professor of natural history, later president, at Amherst College Edward Hitchcock…”

#FossilFriday
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.”

Frank Oppenheimer
November 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Close. In East Haddam, no bookstore, but yes to the other two qualifiers. (Bring a book.)

🐈

Bonus: Archaeological finds in site, documented. www.wshu.org/connecticut-...
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Where some fortunate pumpkins go to be converted into wool (and other byproducts). #farms
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Among the oaks. This one magnificent.
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Shetland sheep and their wool, Clatter Ridge Farm.

🧶 www.clatterridgefarm.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Through waves of light. It is of cloud transformed

“To cloud transformed again, idly, the way

“A season changes color to no end…”

Wallace Stevens
The Auroras of Autumn
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
“I’ve come to the belief that we manufacture whatever immortal souls we have out of the bits of difference we make by living in this world.”

Sue Hubbell
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Crunch, crunch. Nibble, nosh.
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
See, here it is--
I hold it towards you.

John Keats
November 11, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“I asked him which authors his brother most admired. ‘Moby-Dick was Cormac’s favorite book without question, and Faulkner was more of an influence than he liked to admit,’ he said.”

www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

#MelvilleMonday
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Dredging, Stony Creek.
November 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Backroads.
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Look up.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“I would be one with earth again. And grieve not as the seasons pass...”

Jennie Vedder
1892–1982

#SundaySentence

myhero.com/vedder_
November 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stony Creek lookout.
November 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
November 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
November 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Artist.
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM