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Sunday, August 25, 2013

A Cathedral of Another Name

Yesterday, I went with Olivia and Ruhee to the cathedral down the street.  Not the Cathedral of Learning, but an actual cathedral called St. Paul's.  The building is absolutely stunning and incredibly peaceful.  A kind and talkative priest told us a little of the cathedral's history.  The same church, in a different building, used to be in downtown Pittsburgh, at the top of a hill with a road running right in front.  It was a prime location until the city decided that they wanted the road to be flat, and the cathedral was left sitting at least 20 feet higher than the street in front of it.  The Bishop decided that wasn't okay, sued the city for the inconvenience, sold the church for $1.3 mil (in 1900!), and moved to Oakland.

This is where he moved his church to.  Not such a bad place to end up, if you ask me.


The iron decoration on the door fronts.









Saturday, August 17, 2013

Lobster Rolls, Hot Dogs, and Chowda

When we first moved to CT, my dad and I took a day trip to the shore and went to Guilford.  Ever since then, I've absolutely adored that little town, with its boutiques, seafood, and literal town square.  The first time I was there, though, the coastline was suffering from the aftermath of a hurricane, and the photos I got were mostly of the destruction.  We took a trip down to the coast again a few days ago, but this time I got some pretty photos instead of sad ones.

Oh, and we ate dinner at a seaside restaurant called Guilford Mooring.  My dad knocked a glass of water over, but besides that it was fabulous.















Saturday, August 10, 2013

The Orchard Tree's Broken Mailbox

This week is a special edition of The Vagabond's Camera called "Andrew and Emily Drive Around and Take Random Photos."  It'd be a great movie title, don't ya think?

Here's how it went down: Andrew drove his little CRV and I sat in the passenger seat constantly changing the radio station between country and pop.  Every time I saw something interesting, I'd stop mid-sentence and yell "Tractor!" or "Orchard!"  It was a good time.  There's a few more photos than I normally post; who knew this little town was so photogenic?




























It was fun, Lavender Gooms!

Friday, August 2, 2013

Downtown Farm Town

Thanks to Anna and her connection with Ned (the owner of one of The Farmer's Cow farms), I had the wonderful opportunity to take photographs at Mapleleaf Farm this week!  Ned was kind enough to let us two vagabonds wander around and explore, and he even let us near a couple of the tractors.

We rambled from barn to barn, trying to pet the cows and climb the hay bales.  The hay bales gave us no trouble, but I was a little afraid I was going to lose a couple fingers to a cow.  I don't know, do cows bite?  No fingers were lost, though, and I took a crap ton of photos.  191, to be exact.  There was just so much activity, things to see, things to do; and all of it made lovely photographs.  Well, not all of it.  Let's just be grateful cameras don't record smells.




































A big thank you to Ned for letting us take photos at his farm!