Pictures from Hartford

[urbpan]

A statue honoring the return of anadramous fish to the Connecticut River.




Some very urban yew bushes.



An opossum's track.



Charlie liked to walk on this wiggly wall.



Fountain with all kinds of (these days) politically incorrect Indians on it.



I think he sees us!

Comments

If you think THOSE are urban....

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

...you should see the square sugar maples (http://www.ogs.state.ny.us/visiting/cultural/tours/common/images/july4Beatlemania.jpg) in the Empire State Plaza in ALbany.

(BTW - sorry about the small image size... you'd think something as odd as square sugar maples would turn up on a Google search, but apparently the rest of the Plaza wins out for most tourists.)

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

The statue/memorial to an androgynous fish cracks me up! What broad-minded people these must be.

umm... not androgynous...

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

Anadromous:

"Migratory fish are classified according to the following scheme:
   - diadromous fish travel between salt and fresh water
   -anadromous fish live in the sea mostly, breed in fresh water
   -catadromous fish live in fresh water, breed in the sea
   -amphidromous fish move between fresh and salt water during some part of life cycle, but not for breeding
   -potamodromous fish migrate within fresh water only
   -oceanodromous fish migrate within salt water only"
from wikipedia

[interfecta.livejournal.com]

though to be honest I didn't know what they were either!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

The statue is part of the Riverwalk development--a bunch of new construction by the River to try to draw tourists to Hartford. It apparently has fiber optics in it (the statue) that represent or depict fish. The anadramous fish were important to the Native people; the plaque in front of the statue says that the fish have returned lately because the river isn't as polluted as it used to be.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I totally missed your anadramous/androgynous joke!

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

That is extremely awesome.

LOL

[sin-agua.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It was a little joke.

/very little, apparently ;)
//seriously, had no idea there were so many types of "fishlife"