last Wednesday: circular bridle path

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

another Bushnell Park attraction is the old carousel.  clearly it has received a great deal of restoration effort. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Bushnell Park,
Hartford CT

it's housed in a round (or n-agonal) wooden structure quite evocative of E. Francis Baldwin's Mt. Clare shops in Baltimore, now the home of the B&O Museum.  there's much the same effect: lots of height into which heat could rise in the days before mechanical cooling, and an upper cupola with a ring of windows providing natural light to the interior of the structure at floor level (there was enough that I didn't have to resort to flash, but then had it not sufficed I wouldn't have taken these images). 

the stained glass panels topping the lower ring of windows appear to be of modern design and fabrication. 

if you don't want to get on a horse you can ride in style in one of two embellished carriages.  a twisting dragon, ocean waves, carved flowers and an Indian chief: the agglomeration of all these thematic elements can be completely dizzying even when the carousel is at rest. 

I certainly hope carouselrose sees these. 

young mother, younger rider.  it was interesting to catch the similarities of facial expression across generations. 

Comments

[nienna-nineve.livejournal.com]

Wow. Beautiful, beautiful carousel, and I covet that carriage unreasonably!