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Photo Challenge #557

Some Sunday Photo Challenges are hidden in plain sight. We pass by them every day, but often look past as they blend in with the landscape. Or we don’t look far enough up (or down) to see them.

Others are out in the open, but you won’t see them if you don’t go there. We don’t show really obscure spots. Still, if you don’t shop at Trader Joe’s, you won’t recognize part of its mural.

And if you don’t walk out toward the Sherwood Mill Pond, on the pedestrian path and footbridges heading to Compo Cove, you won’t pass Clark Hanford’s house.

His is the last one on the left, before the garages. That’s where last week’s Photo Challenge was located. Karen Como’s photo showed a planter, with a little green figure, set amid some scruffy grass and dirt. (Click here to see.)

Clark is a Staples High School graduate, and a noted artist. His yard is home to an eclectic array of stuff — including, at one time, a tiny electric vehicle.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a trip. So, of course, is the walk along the Mill Pond.

Pat Saviano, Micheal Simso and Beth Berkowitz were the readers who correctly identified last Sunday’s challenge.

If you know where in Westport you’d find this week’s, click “Comments” below. It too is in the “you’ve got to go there to know” category.

But if you don’t go there — sorry, you’re just not a real Westporter.

(Photo/Amy Schneider)

Photo Challenge #556

“06880” readers sure know their onions.

And bagels, lox and gefilte fish.

A near-record 29 of you quickly identified last week’s Photo Challenge — showing a shelf of books labeled “Local Authors!,” next to can of gefilte fish — as being one of the many reasons to love Gold’s Delicatessen. (Click here to see.)

In fact, many readers added exclamation points when they answered: “Gold’s!!!”

(One reader — the last — responded, “Westport Library Bookstore.” Perhaps he was kidding.)

Congratulations, and free gefilte fish for life* to Fred Cantor, Susan Iseman, Matt Murray, Elaine Marino, Jeannie Pearl, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Arthur Hayes, Rachel Halperin, Andrew Colabella, Roz Kopit, Sal Liccione, Joni Usdan, Sandy Rothenberg, Jerry Kuyper, Werner Liepolt, Jay Horn, Becky Keeler, W. Gibson, Nancy Bloom, Lisa Hayes, Diane Silfen, Seth Schachter, Nathan Greenbaum, J. Eason, Seth Braunstein, Mark Soboslai, Wendy Schaefer, Dana Kuyper and Cat Malkin.

This week’s Photo Challenge may be more difficult. If you know where in Westport you would see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Karen Como)

*Just kidding.

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Photo Challenge #555

For some reason — probably having to do with Viva Zapata’s long association with good (drinking) times — several readers thought that the handsomely carved wooden sign reading “It’s Wine o’clock” that was last week’s Photo Challenge could be found at the Riverside Avenue restaurant. (Click here to see.)

Nope!

It’s at Gilbertie’s Herbs & Garden Center.

I don’t know why — you can’t buy wine there.

But who cares? It’s a great sign. We’ll drink to that!

And we’ll toast Diane Bosch and Martha Witte, the only 2 readers who nailed the Challenge.

This week’s Photo Challenge is here. If you know where in Westport you’d see this — (hint: It’s not where you might think) — click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Andrew Franco)

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Photo Challenge #554

For several years, Westporters have called 233 Hillspoint Road “the blue house.”

Or, “the !@#$%^&* blue house.”

The much-litigated, sometimes-worked-on property diagnoally across from Old Mill Grocery & Deli is no longer wrapped in blue Tyvek.

It’s still not completed. But it looks more like a normal (as in, Westport large) house.

With — very colorfully — a red door. (Click here to see.)

That door was the subject of last week’s Photo Challenge. Tom Green, Diane Bosch, Cathy Malkin, Amy Schneider, Andrew Colabella and Jonathan McClure all nailed it.

With a variety of descriptions of the house.

Meanwhile: Hooray! It’s “wine o’clock.”

If you know where in Westport you’d see this sign, click “Comments” below.

We’ll drink to that.

(Photo/Kira Ganga Kieffer)

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Photo Challenge #553

Last week’s Photo Challenge showed the base of a Main Street lamppost.

Andrew Colabella, Jacqui Bidgood, Ed Simek, Seth Schachter, Micheal Simso, Scott Brodie, Sal Liccione and Wendy Schaefer all correctly identified it: in front of the Lux Bond & Green shopping plaza, near Brandy Melville.

I’m not surprised our readers identified it quickly: It’s big, visible, and in a very prominent location. (Click here to see.)

But I expected at least one complaint about all the stickers stuck to it. Westporters seldom miss a chance to comment on visual pollution. For whatever reason, this one got a pass.

Fun fact: The lamppost sits in front of what used to be called Brooks Corner. It was named not for the Brooks Brothers store there, but for Brooks Community Newspaper’s Westport News, which used to have its offices there. The Brooks family owned the small shopping/office plaza.

Now it’s called something like “Main & Elm” or “Elm & Main” — so forgettable, I forgot it.

This week’s Photo Challenge is below. If you know where in Westport you’d see it, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/copyright DinkinESH Fotografix)

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Photo Challenge #552

Readers were a perfect 7-for-7 last week.

Everyone knew that the whimsical image — hard to describe, so click here to see — in our Photo Challenge came from Sherwood Mill Pond, between the 2 sets of tidal gates.

Andrew Colabella, Chris Swan, Seth Schachter, Karen Como, Micheal Simso, Tom Feeley and Dana Kuyper nailed it.

Though none of them offered an explanation of who put those things there.

Today’s Photo Challenge is more straightforward (though also a bit odd).

If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Dan Woog)

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Photo Challenge #551

You’ve got to get to the Westport Country Playhouse more often!

Last week’s Photo Challenge showed a collection of old bottles, arrayed on a wooden beam. (Click here to see.)

They’re on display at the 91-year-old theater. (Which, as Seth Schachter notes, was a tannery long before that.)

He was one of 4 readers to nail the challenge. The others were Cheryl Saviano Petrone, Annie Keefe (who certainly should have, since she’s spent her professinal career there), and Martha Diament.

Toay’s challenge comes from Elle Bowen. If you know where in Westport you’d see this whimsical sight, click “Comments” below.

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Photo Challenge #550

Last week’s Photo Challenge was one of those hidden-in-plain-sight posts.

Sandy Rothenberg’s image showed a weathered white barn. It looked very rural.

In fact, it’s behind Volvo of Westport and Party Harty — on Rayfield Road, just a few yards from Post Road East. (Click here to see.)

Gabby Velez, Marcelle Lozyniak and Andrew Colabella were the only 3 readers who recognized the just-off-the-well-traveled-path structure.

Keep your eyes open the next time you’re stuck in traffic there!

We head indoors for this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Susan Garment)

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Photo Challenge #549

Once upon a time, there were phone booths everywhere.

In the Staples High School parking lot. At Ned Dimes Marina, and near the Compo Beach bathhouses. In Parker Harding Plaza. In front of Coleytown Elementary, at the Easton Road/North Avenue intersection.

Very few remain. A couple of stalwarts — at the Merritt Parkway Exit 42 commuter lot, and Sherwood Diner — have been the subject of previous Photo Challenges.

Another one popped up last week. It’s on the Little Pub at Dunville’s porch. (Click here to see.)

If you know, you know … and Dave Eason, Brian Taylor, Regina Kiska, Dan Vener, Andrew Colabella and Ali Godfrey Woods did. Congrats!

This week’s Photo Challenge is another that may be “hidden in plain sight.”

If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Sandy Rothenberg)

Photo Challenge #548

The large, colorful flowers on Railroad Place at the Westport train station — next to the steps leading up to the westbound tracks — are gorgeous.

But, I thought, too many passengers are too rushed to notice it the arrangement.

Happily, I was completely wrong.

Last week’s Photo Challenge (click here to seewas quickly identified by Sandy Rothenberg, David Sampson, Andrew Colabella, Orlando Lehnder-Reilly, Seth Schachter, Ptti Brill, Michael Szeto, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Jim McKay, Jeff Loechner, Micheal Simso and Mousumi Ghosh.

Nice to know that whoever is responsible for, and tends, them — I’m guessing the Westport Police Department, which oversees the station — is appreciated.

We head inside for today’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Adrian Mueller)

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