Wintonbury Land Trust Bloomfield & Windsor I went to go write up a Wintobury property and was surprised that I had never written the intro page previously. So here I am, wwriting up the intro page. And as I type these words, I realize perhaps why I've never done this before... Bloomfield's Wintonbury Land … [Read more...]
Bloomfield Blog #3: Churches
Bloomfield's Churches There are a LOT of churches in Bloomfield. I have no way of figuring, but I would guess that Bloomfield is one of the top Connecticut towns for churches per capita. I'll start with one of the most beautiful seminaries around too, with St. Thomas's. My kid plays soccer here and I really just … [Read more...]
Auerfarm State Park Scenic Reserve
”Oww-er, It’s Cold” Auerfarm Trail, Bloomfield January 5, 2016 A 2009 visit to the Auer Farm itself. So far, the winter of 2015-16 has been absurdly mild. Mid-60’s on Christmas Eve and nearly 60-degrees today, at the end of January. In fact, it’s only been truly cold maybe two days so far this winter. … [Read more...]
Bloomfield Blog # 2: Roads & Geography
Bloomfield Roads and Stuff The Worst Thing in Bloomfield We all have our favorite highway engineering disasters. By my count, there are someting like 11,000 such disasters in our small state alone. But there's one in Bloomfield that has vexed me for years. Those of you who never have to drive through this should … [Read more...]
Bloomfield Blog #1: Intro
Bloomfield Once again, I’m trying a new thing here. I really wanted this “blog” portion of CTMQ to work out. However, my time is fleeting and CTMQ was never meant to be “timely” or “daily” or anything like that. After a successful series of posts that included everything we did on a random day in … [Read more...]
Samuel Wheeler Reed Park
Wheel on By This One Samuel Wheeler Reed Park, Bloomfield April 25, 2015 [This page is part of my ongoing series, “Hikes with my Boys.” The full list of those hikes can be found here.] Bloomfield has a surprising amount of parks, parkland, land trust property, and the like. This is probably "surprising" because … [Read more...]
TSTL’15.1: Talcott Mountain
The Sky's the Limit 2015 Hiking Challenge #1 Talcott Mountain State Park, Heublein Tower Bloomfield/Simsbury May 2, 2015 Here we go! I'm not sure I can complete this challenge with my sons, but I think I'm going to try. We started off with one of the more difficult climbs, so maybe that will motivate them. I told … [Read more...]
Bloomfield’s Town Trails Intro
Bloomfield’s Town Trails Bloomfield used to be called Wintonbury. In fact, the town’s land trust is called the Wintonbury Land Trust and the historical society is called the Wintonbury Historical Society. When you drive around the town, which I happen to do every day, you’ll see the Wntonbury name everywhere. I … [Read more...]
Back East Brewing Company
I Think I'll Always End up Back East Somehow Back East Brewery Company, Bloomfield Multiple visits with many more to come [2016 Update: Man, I hate these brewery pages. They become outdated WAY faster than anything else on CTMQ. As you know, the beer scene in CT has grown enormously since I wrote this in 2012. … [Read more...]
Metacomet Trail: Section 11
Section 11: You Can't Pen These Woods Penwood State Park to Farmington River, 6.2 miles October 14, 2011 2019 Update: This section was written up in 2011, shortly before I started converting everything to a larger format, so please forgive the tiny pictures. If you want to start at the beginning of the trail, go … [Read more...]