Weekend Reflection

The blue sky is reflected in the spoons. You just can't keep a good sky down.

The last few days I've been posting photos of News Stands for the New Haven Register that have been painted by different school groups around New Haven. To see more Weekend Reflections click HERE.

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Over the next few days I will post photos of some of the New Haven Register's newsstands in the downtown area around the green. Each newsstand has been decorated by a different middle school in the area. Quite creative!

The Garden

Recessed in the Beinecke Plaza at Yale University is a garden of sculpture by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). It's entitled 'The Garden' (Pyramid, Sun & Cube).From the website about public art at Yale University, "Japanese-American sculptor and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi designed this work for the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in one of several collaborative efforts with architect Gordon Bunshaft. Garden extends the creamy Vermont marble surfaces of the library’s paneled walls into its sunken courtyard. The cold materials of the space inspire not emotion but contemplation, reinforcing a studious atmosphere in the adjacent underground reading room. The mood is that of a Japanese Zen garden, quietly balancing cosmic forces symbolized by the circle (the sun and its energy), the pyramid (the earth and its history), and the poised cube (chance). This synthesis of East and West also unites past and future by suggesting both the marble flagstones of an Italian piazza and the surreal landscape of the moon. Gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, B.A. 1907, Frederick W. Beinecke, Ph.B. 1909, and Walter Beinecke, B.A. 1910, to the Yale University Library, 1963"

Windows Say It All

On Wooster Street Anatasio's and Tony and Lucille's had some fine displays painted on their windows for Mother's Day. I believe that the signage was painted by LeRoy Parks. Indeed a very happy Mother's Day to all.

A Year on Hughes Place

Hughes Place is a short one way street that connects Saint John Street and Greene Street in Wooster Square. In the spring when the cherry blossoms are in bloom you find people slowly strolling down the middle of the street enjoying the beautiful canopy that the blossoms create. I photographed the street all year long so we could have a look at Hughes Place in the other seasons of our year. We start with summer.

Weekend Reflection

With this ring, I thee wed. It took me a while to get back to blogging because I was at a wedding in St. Louis, Missouri. One of the benefits of being the officiant is that I had their wedding bands in my possession for a time. I photographed them on my stole that I purchased from the Arab Women's Union in Bethlehem, West Bank. When I was finished taking the photos I settled down to write my reflection for the service. For other reflections check out Jame's Weekend Reflection.