An Fallen Tree on Lockwood Avenue in Old Greenwich. Make sure like this family did that you plant your trees far enough from your home that in 80 years if it falls it doesn't hit your housE
A dock at the end of Shore Acre Drive in Old Greenwich were as a kid I gazed across the Lond Island Sound inlet of Old Greenwich HarboR
Saltwater freezes also, maybe not as much as fresh water, the tides leave crusty ice flats behind in the muD
A massing of about 120 Canadian Geese and 10 Swan took refuge today in Eagle Pond at Tod's PoinT
With a very close full Moon today there was a very low tide. Something I've never seen was the mud in Old Greenwich Harbor. Look closely and you can see evenly widthed tracks in the mud. I suspect those tracks are from the shellfisherman vesselS
Frozen low tide and the Shorelands dock in Old GreenwicH
.The sign says, "NO MORE XMAS TREES"....but I thought I read (Christmas aka XMAS) trees could be brought until the last day of January. Who coined the word, "XMAS"? I dont think the Vatican did it...Maybe advertising executive...or maybe someone who doesn't like Christmas....say....like the GrincH!
The Greenwich Police substation in forground with the Tod's Point Toll in background. I once heard that the substation was built during WWII as a look out for enemy submarineS
The Queen Anne Building at Tod's Point. It has recently been restored on the outside. Work on the interior is ongoinG
A shoeprint in the snow and sand on East Beach at Tod's PoinT
on Feb 22nd, 2010 at 12:19 pm
FYI: The substation was once on the site of a lookout station once used by the Ground Observation Corps. During the Cold War in the 1950’s, folks would man the station and report all aircraft they saw. There were many dedicated people who spent many an hour there looking and watching for the potential threat of attack; myself included. Needless to say, nothing of the sort ever happened. The Tod Beach lookout was connected by a telephone circuit to other stations located in Darien, New Cannan and Mt. Kisco. The main station collecting the data was located in White Plains. They also collected reports from other groups located through the east. The planes were plotted out on boards and every once in a great while an Air Force plane was sent out to investigate a “mystery plane”. Usually the “action” we saw was located on the Sound. I recall seeing red flares arching high over the water one time. I called it in and a Coast Guard boat came to the rescue of a disabled sailboat. I believe this photo is the remodeled version of the station that was located at the same site.
Thanks for the memories…