Memorial Day Parade, Clinton

Everybody loves a small town parade and Clinton's is really special. Since Rick and I moved here in 2000, it's become our tradition on Memorial Day to pick our spot early on the parade route and to take in the sights, to meet friends and to appreciate everything about this day.



It wouldn't be a parade without hot dogs! The Arbor Garden Club of Clinton setting up to to sell hot dogs. It's one of the many ways in which they raise money for a scholarship for a deserving high school senior majoring in one of the sciences. And it's the only time that the husbands get in on the act!



The hard working ladies of the Arbor Garden Club

And the husbands of the Arbor Garden Club






On the parade route, the Stanton house, ca.1790, is maintained as a museum of American antiques with almost all the furnishings being original. It is open to the public on Memorial Day.

They know how to dress the part!




A still life Rick photographed from inside the Stanton House

A face from the past (actually...one of the docents)

A Daffodil Brunch at the Hay House

Every year Ann and I look forward to David Brown's annual daffodil party at the Hay House farm in Old Saybrook. This year was no exception...it was a perfect weekend with gorgeous daffodils, great food and awesome people. It's a special place where one can meet artists, environmentalists, and the local Tibetan community. David's farm is aptly named as he lives in a one room cottage made of hay bales that are 18" thick. Also on the farm is his artist studio and Connecticut's first Buddhist Stupa. The farm is “off the grid” and David lives a Thoreauean existence.


This past April 26th, surrounded by thousands of daffodils, David's friends joined together to also celebrate the birthday of the Stupa (dedicated on Earth Day 2007) a Buddhist shrine of peace and good intention.

Do they come any cuter than this?

David sells vegetables, eggs, jam, cut flowers and in addition, he’s a full time painter. He was the subject of a documentary, "David Brown and the Hay House," by Jeannie Newman of SamDog Films, in 2004. David offers tours of his farm for individuals and groups by arrangement.