Another snowfall blankets my neighborhood. I went for a short walk and captured these images.
This is down the street from where I live. It is a little library branch. I have been using this library since I was in first grade. The interior has changed very little since then. What I miss most are the beautiful oak library card catalog drawers with brass handles. I learned how to find things alphabetically (looking up authors and titles of books) by sifting through the oaktag cards, one by one. When I was a kid, it was exciting when I would find the card I was looking for. The drawers were about three feet long!
Looking at this picture, I can almost smell that familiar musty scent…
Directly across the street from the tiny library is my elementary school. It was renovated and enlarged in the early 1990’s, but the original building was left intact. The front of the school barely resembles the school I attended from 1970-1975.
This church is a few hundred feet away from where I currently live. As a kid, I attended Brownies and Girl Scouts here. As a women, I got married here! Now, my husband and I walk to this church to attend service on Sunday mornings.
The house where mr. newenglander and I currently live. When I was 13, I began walking home from school with a boy who lived here. I became good friends with his parents and we have been friend for thirty years. When I expressed my desire to move back to CT in July 2008, they said, “Please move upstairs!” So we did.
My trusty van! I have put this van through a lot of traveling back and forth between Arkansas & Northern Maine, and Arkansas & Connecticut, too many times to recall. It has held up well. Chevy doesn’t make the Venture anymore. I can’t imagine why. Now, they make a similar van called an Uplander. Unfortunately, Chevy will only sell the Uplander to corporations in fleet (huge) numbers. When it is time to retire this van, I want an Uplander!
