by Sandy Connolly | Apr 14, 2017 | Flowers
I’m visiting my mother over spring break, and you would think there would at least be a SIGN of spring SOMEWHERE – anywhere! But here’s what I’ve been getting: Dead grass in dead tree stump Hey! I'm dead! Yep... dead Dead Elm? Dead Stuff...
by Sandy Connolly | Sep 12, 2016 | Flowers, Grasses, Photography
My good friend Glenn Levinson came over the other day for something of an impromptu visit with our family (Uncle Glenn!), and I had just come back from a grass, flower, and other types of plants raid at Chittenden Park in Guilford. Now, I hadn’t seen Glenn in...
by Sandy Connolly | Aug 13, 2016 | Connolly Family, Photography
Times are getting fewer and fewer that all nine of us can be in the same place, so these moments are precious to me. My best friend and business partner, Irene Liebler, submitted some of her work to the Salmagundi Club’s 2016 Non-Members’ Photography &...
by Sandy Connolly | Aug 1, 2016 | Flowers, Photography
The moment I heard that my friends Aaron and Noah (ages seven and five) were running a flower business by selling arrangements in the park with flowers they grew in their own backyard, I was seized with a dire need to document the story. The cuteness factor was just...
by Sandy Connolly | Jul 20, 2016 | Connolly Family
In an effort to support Abigail in her quest to be able to take Calculus BC by the time she’s a senior (she’s taking Geometry and Algebra II this fall as a freshman under special dispensation from the guidance office… I love Tammy Lizotte!), I am...
by Sandy Connolly | Apr 25, 2016 | Grasses, Photography
If a person is going to be excited about spring and the plants that come to life at that time, then it would seem natural to be happy about the obvious things in the Northeast like forsythia and crocuses. And then the cherry blossoms. I think I missed them. I...
by Sandy Connolly | Dec 3, 2015 | Music Stuff
The best players check their ego at the door and get the job done. They are the finest of sportsmen. The job: Open Mic at Donahue’s. The mix-up: who was on lead guitar. The result: no guitar player. Many texts go out from Trot to Savino. “Where are...
by Sandy Connolly | Nov 22, 2015 | Music Stuff
Earlier this fall, I was asked to sub on a gig with Tongue & Groove at Foxwood’s Casino at the end of November. I was so excited to get to front another band besides my own, that I said, “Yes! I’ll do it!” Then I got the list of songs I was...
by Sandy Connolly | Aug 24, 2015 | Flowers
It happens every August, and maybe it happens to you too: we’re being invaded by Lady’s Thumbs. They grow in all the places that can’t be reached by the lawn mower. Here’s what they look like as you come up our driveway: But if you pick them...
