Having lived in West Hartford for over twenty years now and due to my more recent pastime of photographing homes, I have become familiar with many sections of town. One of my favorite spots is a little jewel of a neighborhood called the West Hill Drive Historic District. I’ll never forget the first time I discovered…
Do you ever have that feeling that you were supposed to meet someone? Because if not for a random series of events you never would have met them? That’s how I feel about Jen Mooney. Jen lives in West Hartford in an adorable Cape with her even more adorable dachshunds, Henry and Kiki. A lot…
When I began taking photographs of front doors, my original subjects were homes in my West Hartford neighborhood. West Hartford has such a wide variety of interesting architectural styles, and charming streets lined with sidewalks and trees. I had one main criteria for selecting front doors to photograph. The entryway had to have something about it…
One street and two cities, you say? No doubt it’s unusual but in this case it’s true. I recently took a fascinating walking tour of Prospect Avenue with Mary Falvey from Hartford Preservation Alliance and Mary Donohue of Connecticut Explored where I learned a bit of old home and architectural history. The middle of Prospect Avenue…
Tourist in my own state? How about in my own TOWN? When my children were young I had the pleasure (cough, cough) of accompanying them and their classmates on school field trips to the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society. Unfortunately, during those visits my time was primarily spent counting heads to ensure no one…
People often ask me how (and why?) I started talking photos of doors and homes. The next thing they ask is “does anyone ever ask you what you are doing?” To answer the first question, it all began a little over a year ago in the spring of 2014. I needed to get more exercise…
