Park Walks: O'Sullivans Island, Part Two

Derby, Connecticut

An old railroad bridge crosses the Naugatuck River just a few hundred yards north of its merge with the Housatonic. Both rivers were industrial corridors in times past. Now there's some urban renewal here and there but little industry remains.

Park Walks: O'Sullivans Island, Part One

Derby, Connecticut

A chilly morning, 12/317, under a heavy overcast sky with temperature just above freezing. Recently I'd noticed that O'Sullivans Island had been reopened as a recreation area after being closed for years during environmental cleanup. It's actually a peninsula, not really an island, that extends into the water at the junction of the Naugatuck and Housatonic Rivers.

The water was high and there was quite a bit of flooding along the shore and some interior areas of the park.

There's a free-access boat launch adjacent to the park area and fishermen frequent the island as well now that it's open, but there are issues about the fish in the Connecticut rivers with their history of heavy industrial development and pollution.

The mirror surface of the water echoed the ominous deep overcast late morning light.

[more to come]

It's an Idea...

Shelton, Connecticut

Jenny K CLEANERS

Meriden, Connecticut

Buildings and Signs

Athens, New York

Adolf's Meat & Sausage Kitchen

Hartford, Connecticut

Morgan St.

Meriden, Connecticut

FOR RENT, FOR LEASE

Peekskill, New York

Spring Trees, VIII

Waterbury, Connecticut

ENCO

Waterbury, Connecticut

BFGoodrich

Thomaston, Connecticut

VARGAS CORNER MARKET

Torrington, Connecticut

Stand

Waterbury, Connecticut

Building Portrait, with Sign

Naugatuck, Connecticut

New Name, Same Management

Naugatuck, Connecticut

A notice that damage to property is prohibited seems a bit superfluous.

Click on the picture to see a larger, more legible version.

meineke car care center

Naugatuck, Connecticut

RJ's LOUNGE

Kingston, New York

AVAILABLE

Derby, Connecticut

This is a building portrait I tried to post recently, but couldn't get to upload correctly because the Google+ robots kept trying to make it look more professional. See Working Pictures for more on that.

Dottie's Diner

Woodbury, Connecticut

Solomon's Lodge

Woodbury, Connecticut

It's still winter light for these "building portraits" even though we're more than halfway through March.