“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.” –Larry McMurtry

You should be writing. Yet words dribble away in meaningless texts. Scrolling, to find–what? Stop.

You can’t go back.

Recently, past and present flow together. Beginnings and endings.

Wethersfield Farmers Market at Cove Park. Lilacs, walks, music. Food, plants, conversations. Memories. Opening day, May 28, 2026.

Bethany trails. (The stone serpent with the quartz feature; wow, just wow.)

CT Renegades’ first event for 2026 has been waylaid by rain–but those interested may want to turn out for their next scheduled one on Saturday, June 13 at 11 a.m., 695 Amity Rd., (Old Bethany Airport), Bethany, CT.

Progress on the Staunton-Davis Homestead–Whit Davis would be so pleased.

Yukitaka Osaki. Still dream of his gardens by the river to be reborn.

“Osaki occupied the home for the rest of his life, maintaining a beautiful garden there as well as livestock. He served as a gardener and a mail-carrier for Gillette, riding his donkey around town conducting errands. Osaki enjoyed a half-hour’s visit with Gillette each night to discuss business of the estate as well as world events. He was well known around Hadlyme and was close to many of his neighbors, including the Hamilton sisters who lived in the yellow house across the road.”

Also see: https://www.gillettecastlefriends.org/yukitaka-osaki.

Also, en route, thinking of a slab of coffeecake. Rye bread for later.

And.

Tesoro Artisan Gift Boutique & Gallery has moved to 1 South Colony Street in Wallingford, and has re-opened. Hmmm. Time to circle back to see all.

“While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.” – Jane Jacobs

Meriden. (Oh wishing for a solar manufacturer to find the former Miller complex and set up shop.)

A brook runs beside this site, under a hallway of a structure that leads to another complex of buildings. Flowing water is important to life and business.

My late sister thought a brewery inside the main complex would be a natural fit for this place, in time. Look up at the beams, the details, she said. And with her words, my imagination filled in the scene.

Quonset. Look up the origin of this word and, not surprised–“1942, from Quonset Point Naval Air Station, Rhode Island, where this type of structure was first built, in 1941. The place name is from a southern New England Algonquian language and perhaps means ‘small, long place,'” according to Online Etymology Dictionary.

From a bustling factory making vital components for machines to a quieter place now home to a variety of small business, entrepreneurs and yes, innovation. Offices in the front section; a hidden courtyard that await someone who sees its potential. Well-built homes stand as a border along Camp Street. The interstate hums with transportation above. Harbor Brook still flows, now into above ground through Meriden Green and beyond on its way to the Quinnipiac River, of which it is a tributary. Streams and rivers may be buried but if not engineered well, water will seek its own courses and not be ignored. Watersheds feed all layers of life. Mills and factories located near water that could be counted on to carry away wastes, dye, effluent once upon a time–and not so very long ago.

History is brutal, but should not be sanitized.

Meadows. Meriden has a “meadows” much like Haddam Meadows, Cromwell Meadows, Middletown meadows (where the mud volleyball is played)–it’s known as Meriden Green. Peel back the layers of time and note the recharge area as all streams ebb and flood. It’s their nature. Rivers do the same. Ignore the at your peril, water goes where it wants.

Read widely; not everything is online. A curated social media feed–editors, writers, scholars, authors, publishers; and unique voices. Art. Observant humans. Horses, dogs, yes. Aerospace, local business, manufacturing, reporters. People who see.

A book that may provide insight or a destination is Connecticut, An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites by Matthew Roth, Bruce Clouette, Victor Darnell.

Industrial sites have left a legacy of sorts in not only what they made, but the solvents and such used before effects were known. Brownfields, the term used now to describe the knowledge of how long all combined lasts coupled to land, water, air. For a list of current project applications that include Connecticut via the EPA, visit this link.

A special treat along the way. A landmark local business, remembered. It’s there–and as wonderful as remembered.

Redbud.

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