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Photo Challenge #548

Posted on June 29, 2025 | 14 comments

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 see) was 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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Photo Challenge #547

Posted on June 22, 2025 | 15 comments

There are many places to access the shoreline — besides beaches — in Westport.

Last week’s Photo Challenge showed one of several “Shoreline Public Access” signs around town. (Click here to see.)

Where was it? The giveaway seemed to be some rose bushes behind it.

Robert Mitchell, Andrew Colabella, Brandon Malin, Mary Stewart and Dan Ashley all knew the sign can be seen at the Riverwalk, near the Levitt Pavilion.

It’s a beautiful walk, along the Saugatuck River and Deadman Brook.

Of course, as Dan Ashley noted, the “no dogs” sign is often ignored.

Like shoreline access, there are flowers all over Westport. If you know where you’d see the ones below, in this week’s Photo Challenge, click “Comments.”

(Photo/Dan Woog)

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Photo Challenge #546

Posted on June 15, 2025 | 10 comments

Last week’s Photo Challenge was another one I thought would be a slam dunk.

Even readers who do not spend a lot of time in Staples High School are occasionally there — for an auditorium event, say.

And right inside the entrance, there’s a large mosaic “S.”

It’s also visible in many photos the school sends, of Students of the Month and other achievements (see photo below).

But a cropped version of the “S” — photographed by Lynn Untermeyer Miller (click here to see) — drew only 2 correct responses.

Congratulations to Charlotte Epstein and Edward Bloch. What’s up with the rest of our usual eagle-eyed readership?

You’ve got a chance to redeem yourself today. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Jeff Jacobs)

 

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Photo Challenge #545

Posted on June 8, 2025 | 7 comments

Of course Pat Saviano knew last week’s Photo Challenge.

As she noted, it showed the “view from the bridge on South Sylvan, across from Saviano Lane.”

Susan Garment’s photo — of a lazy stream, a swan, lush fiolage and a pergola — looked like it was taken in a quiet part of Westport. (Click here to see.)

In fact, it’s near one of the busiest roads in town: Riverside Avenue. But it’s a local treasure, and plenty of readers knew exactly where it was.

Along with Pat Saviano (and Cheryl Saviano Petrone), they include Andrew Colabella, Seth Schachter, J. Scott Broder, Jonathan McClure, Pete Powell, Michael Calise, Marcia K. Falk, Peter Barlow, Robin Jaffee Frank, Rachel Halperin, Darcy Sledge and Brooks Sumberg.

Now on to this week’s Photo Challenge. If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Lynn Untermeyer Miller)

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Photo Challenge #544

Posted on June 1, 2025 | 19 comments

A number of readers guessed that last week’s Photo Challenge showed a view from Longshore.

Not all of them placed it correctly, though.

It was the golf cart shed. Actually, Sandy Rothenberg’s shot was taken through it, out toward the practice putting green, river and Saugatuck Shores. (Click here to see.)

A tip of the caddy’s hat goes to Seth Schachter, Diane Bosch, Vanessa Bradford, Dave Eason, Andrew Colabella, Seth Braunstein, Mike Mills, Linda Vita Velez, Linda Stern, Micheal Simso, Martha Witte, Clark Thiemann, Kevin McCaul and Nathan Greenbaum.

You don’t need to be a golfer to know today’s Photo Challenge. You just have to keep your eyes open, for this colorful hidden-in-plain-view image.

(Photo/Susan Garment)

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

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Photo Challenge #543

Posted on May 25, 2025 | 22 comments

You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Bob Dylan astutely noted.

I’ll add: You don’t need to be a congregant to know that last week’s Photo Challenge showed the weather vane atop Saugatuck Church. (Click here for the photo.)

The white building set behind a broad green lawn is one of Westport’s most recognizable landmarks. (Never mind that it wasn’t always there; in 1950, it moved diagonally from its previous site where — among other events — meetings led to Westport’s official founding in 1835.)

Anyone driving by (and stopped at the Myrtle Avenue light) has time to gaze at the church — and its weather vane.

Morley Boyd, Diane Bosch, Seth Schachter, Robert Mitchell and Andrew Colabella all knew exactly where.

And — in a rarity for our Photo Challenge — there were no wrong guesses.

Will there be any this week? If you know where in Westport you’d see this sight, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Sandy Rothenberg)

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Photo Challenge #542

Posted on May 18, 2025 | 7 comments

“Who” knew where last week’s Photo Challenge was?

The wooden owl sat atop Little Barn restaurant — not, as some readers guessed, Sherwood Diner, Minute Man Yacht Club, Rive Bistro or Riversside Avenue. (See the photo here.)

If we gave prizes, free meals would go to Andrew Colabella, Rachel Sara Halperin, Arthur Hayes, Amy Schneider and Orlando Lehnerd-Reilly.

We go back on the roof for thsi week’s Photo Challenge.

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

(Photo/Johanna Keyser Rossi)

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Photo Challenge #541

Posted on May 11, 2025 | 10 comments

Last week’s Photo Challenge showed a familiar scene.

But it was also very challenging.

Jerry Kuyper’s image of the edge of a gray building, with a lower one next to it, reminded many readers of the Post Road East/Imperial Avenue corner, dominated by Harding Funeral Home (ground floor) and the Masonic temple (above). (You can see it here.)

I would have said that too. But I’d be as wrong as most readers.

Jerry took the shot from the second floor of Clarendon Fine Art. It shows the Pottery Barn building across Main Street, and next to it West Elm (whose arched windows are the giveaway).

Andrew Colabella, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Morley Boyd and Matt McGrath are the 4 readers who did not take the funeral home/Masons bait. Well done!

Meanwhile, “who” knows where this week’s Photo Challenge is?

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

(Photo/June Rose Whittaker)

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Photo Challenge #540

Posted on May 4, 2025 | 17 comments

Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!

The first 7 answers to last week’s Photo Challenge were incorrect.

Burying Hill Beach? Camp Mahackeno? More than half a dozen guesses missed what I thought was a slam dunk: the out-of-place-looking hill in Winslow Park, halfway between Compo Road North and the Playhouse parking lot.

But then you came through.

Eighteen readers nailed it. Several remarked on the oddness of the topography. One called it “funny”; another, “creepy.” (Click here to see.)

The hill might not be natural. One theory is that it’s built on remains of the mansion — later, a sanitarium — that anchored the property from the 1850s through the 1970s.

Whether or not that’s true, congratulations to Leigh Gage, Jerry Kuyper, Tom Talmadge, Regi Kendig, Karen deMille, Andrew Colabella, Cat Malkin, Chip Stephens, Daniel Maya, Sal Liccione, Sally VanDevanter, Dan Ashley, Brooks Sumberg, Robert Grodman, Duane Cohen, Mary Stewart, Matt McGrath and Sally Palmer.

You weren’t first. But you were right.

Today’s Photo Challenge is a bit more artistic than most. The game is the same, though: If you know where in Westport you’d see this, click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Jerry Kuyper)

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Photo Challenge #539

Posted on April 27, 2025 | 29 comments

There was an interesting mix of answers to last week’s Photo Challenge.

A good number of our readers thought the colorful Prosecco cart in Ed Simek’s image was outside Mrs. London’s. (Click here to see.)

It could have been.

But the correct answer — as Patricia McMahon, David Meth, Lynn Untermeyer Miller, Andrew Colabella, Jeannie Pearl, Rachel Sara Halperin, Sal Liccione, Amy Schneider and Tom Talmadge knew — was Basso.

They definitely know their Prosecco carts!

Today’s Photo Challenge shows a nice place for a picnic. If you were going to bring some Prosecco here, where would it be? Click “Comments” below.

(Photo/Seth Schachter)

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