The Distracted Wanderer

As busy as it was last week, I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to head over to the other side of Connecticut this past Saturday and pick up Princess Patti of Ansonia in the Valley so that we could trek through the snow in search of photographs in western Connecticut. Truth be told, I think that we both dearly needed a Girls Day Out in order to "blow off the stink" as I put it and I'm always up for a road trip to check out new places. Besides, I wanted to take advantage of a bit of a break in the weather and see if I might be able to get any good potential photos for this year's Christmas cards; with the amount of snow we've been getting winter scenes are in abundance and then some! Around noon time I arrived in Ansonia to pick up the Princess and from there we headed in a northwesterly direction towards the small town of Kent where I knew there was not only one of Connecticut's three historic covered bridges but also Kent Falls which is someti...

Way back on October 23rd of last year, Princess Patti of Ansonia in the Valley and I got together on a sunny Saturday with beautiful blue skies and tolerable temperatures to explore a bit of Northwestern Connecticut.  The object of our adventure was to ferret out and photograph some foliage before it was gone for another year. Patti, a blogger whom I have had the pleasure of getting together with in real life several times, lives a little over an hour away from me just a bit past New Haven and much closer to the northwest hills so it made sense to meet at her royal residence and venture forth from there.  Her loving spouse who is also a blogger, Prince Ralph , had prepared a list of places for us to check out so we set out with his list, a partial bag of donuts, and my GPS unit to see what we could see. In addition to being an ace reporter for the New Haven Register , Patti is also a professional passenger as her Prince is usually in charge of operating their royal carri...