Barry,
Yes, Cleome is a captivating flower. I usually don't include cultivated plants in my photos, but these were exceptional. You win the church photo contest. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Caselli" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:15:29 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Sugar Loaf Ah, Cleome (Spider Flower), one of my favorite garden flowers. We used to grow it when I was young. I always love church pictures. I think you know I photograph churches as a hobby, besides my hiking and nature photography. I have attached a couple photos of a church here in New Jersey, that is my favorite. It sits at the corner of Main Street and Church Street in Port Republic, NJ. This church reminds many people of New England, and has been nicknamed the Christmas Card Church. Port Republic is a pretty little town with a municipal building that is about the size of a double-wide mobile home trailer. The town has houses from the 18th and 19th centuries, with trees in front of them from the same time periods. Barry --- On Thu, 9/17/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Sugar Loaf To: [email protected] Cc: "Belchetz-Swenson, Sarah" <[email protected]>, "Blaich, Tanya" <[email protected]>, "Blaich, Roland" <[email protected]>, "CAMPANILE, ROBERT" <[email protected]>, "Davis, John" <[email protected]>, "Gafney, David" <[email protected]>, "Hurley, Claudia" <[email protected]>, "Kaiser, Amy" <[email protected]>, "Loomis, Rob " <[email protected]>, "Seale, Doug" <[email protected]>, "Zelazo, Timothy" <[email protected]>, "Williams, Bill" <[email protected]>, "Weiss, Nancy" <[email protected]>, "Weil, Phoebe" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 11:33 AM Don and Sandy, I'm happy to have served as the agent to stimulate pleasant memories of the Connecticut River Valley for the two of you. On a general theme, I neglected to say that Sugar Loaf and north Sugar Loaf were important in Indian lore. They saw the combined form as that of a beaver. Sadly, there are no ancestors of the indigenous peoples with stories about the Connecticut River Valley of the 1600s and before. One wonders how the Valley looked then. Don, there is still a place where you buy vegetables and leave your money. I always get a good feeling inside me when passing the stand. Sometimes appealing to the best in us pays off. Many of us will carry these images of the Connecticut River Valley as the cherished ones. A bit of New England nostalgia. Oh yes, your memory is correct. Cigars of the highest quality. I have included two more images from Sugar Loaf. The first gives us a little closer look at the church in Sunderland. The second shows one of the attractive floral displays maintained by DCR on the summit. I really think DCR does an excellent job on Sugar Loaf. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "DON BERTOLETTE" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 1:31:16 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [ENTS] Re: Sugar Loaf Bob- Having lived down the 'River Road' along the west side of the Ct. River, these photos definitely brought back memories...your Mount Toby image revived one, of netted tobacco plants (for cigars if my recall serves me?), which might have been captured in the nearest part of the 'middle ground', sort of to the right of center? I tried to identify the produce stand that to me characterized the 'old days' where the proprietor simply left a cigar box at the stand, and you paid, made change, sacked your selection by yourself...a system based on trust that is just about not seen elsewhere, these days. It may be just out of the picture. The images with stretches of the river, revived recall of canoe trips where we'd put in at the bridge at South Deerfield/Sunderland, and float down to our condo (for students, it was a nice 3 story 3 room 690 sq. ft unit that had originally been a barn, in Hatfield), which was a stone's throw from the river. Many days were like the day you captured your images, but my visual recall was brighter, sunlit enough with agricultural haze that made you squint your eyes. Not bad, pilgrim! -Don --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
