"T Stands For Teddy On Wood Bridge" - Photograph

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I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth for this week's T Stands For challenge found here.

This is my summation of the past week:

Those are photos of Teddy that I took during our last trip to the Audubon Larsen Wildlife Sanctuary about a month ago.

I needed a ticket into this week's T-gathering, so here is Teddy with another magazine image, this time showing people sitting at a table with beverages. Teddy said to make sure Bleubeard, Elizabeth, and CJ see this photo. Teddy said the statue in the foreground is a "Maneki Neko," which is the "Japanese/Chinese Lucky Cat or Beckoning Cat." Teddy said he read about them in a post by CJ. Teddy said he wants one of these, but in a smaller size.

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The weather here in the Northeast US has a mind of its own, and has been somewhat unseasonably cold, with more to come. Tuesday here in southern Connecticut we will get rain mixed with a possible dusting to a half inch of snow, then the overnight temperature will plummet to 15 F (-9.44 C). On Wednesday during the day, the high will be 32 F (0 C) but the wind chill will make it feel like 0 F to 10 F (-17.7 C to -12.2 C) 5 F to 15 F (-15 C to -9.4 C). But upstate New York is forecast to get 7 to 11 3 to 5 inches of snow, so I'm not complaining.

If anyone is interested in trying Linux (instead of Microsoft bloatware Windows 10) , I've been adding Linux links to the side of my blog. You can try it in a VirtualBox on Windows first.

I made a postcard: Sewing.

I visited one of my usual haunts (no pun intended): Union Cemetery.

I also made a road trip to the land of Hic Sunt Draconis (here there be dragons), as CJ would say. Northeast Connecticut is called "the quiet corner" and until recently, I didn't know many/any of the town names there. I live in the southwest side of Connecticut, and while I am familiar with most of the towns along the entire shoreline, the quiet corner was an unknown black hole to me.

The area is beautiful, with a lot of new growth forest. Within those forests are remnants of history, with stone walls and cemeteries revealing past use of the land. Everywhere I went, I followed the golden rule of "Leave only footprints and take only photographs."

I saw a Cemetery in the Woods, Old Ashford Cemetery, which had gravestones dating back to the first half of the 1700s, and nearby Ashford Academy.

I made a brief stop at Eastford Grove Cemetery, took a few photos of St Philip-Apostle Church, and explored Snow Cemetery. I also saw snow on the ground in one place, which I did not like seeing.

That early evening back at home, there were clouds passing in front of the Moon, making for some moody photos.

Over the weekend, we watched the following movies:

movies:

Paranoia (2013) (DVD) good

Annihilation (2018) (DVD) good

The Bourne Identity (2002) (DVD) very good

Niagara (1953) (DVD) very good

comedy:

Drillbit Taylor (2008) (DVD) okay

Dinner for Schmucks (2010) (DVD) very good

horror:

The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013) (DVD) very good