Today’s Photo Friday theme is Best of 2005. I don’t know if this is my “best” photo from the past year…but it’s certainly one of my all-time favorites. Taking good pictures on a good day in Keene is child’s play: aim your camera and shoot. If I take a lot of alluring pictures, that’s in large part because I live in a particularly photogenic town…and I carry my camera everywhere, taking at least a handful of pictures everyday.
Although I didn’t list in my Favorite Five countdown the post in which this photo originally appeared, it is one of my favorite Keene-related blog-entries, telling as it does the story of how I came to teach and then live here. Best of all, if you do a Google search for prettiest town on earth, my post is first…and if you do a Google search for prettiest town in America, my post about little ol’ Keene is second, bested only by the Chamber of Commerce site for Woodstock, Vermont.
So, when it comes to asserting America’s prettiest town, who are you going to believe: a Chamber of Commerce site hawking the tourist virtues of some town in Vermont, or an independent, no-strings-attached site written by someone who chronicles her town in all weathers, day in and day out? While you decide for yourself whose town in the fairest of them all, I’ll remain steadfast in my belief that an image of a picture-perfect white church spire nestled in white crabapple blossoms against a spring-blue sky is the best it gets in 2005 or any other year.
Dec 30, 2005 at 10:47 am
Oh my gosh, that’s beautiful. Is that in central square? Wow! I love it!
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Dec 30, 2005 at 11:06 am
Your original post was quite good too, and rather enlightening.
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Dec 30, 2005 at 11:27 am
I love this shot. (St Peter’s on the square?) You’re right, Keene certainly is photogenic!
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Dec 30, 2005 at 11:50 am
That is a breathtaking picture Lorelei!
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Dec 30, 2005 at 12:28 pm
That’s the Congregational/UCC church in Central Square, Keene:
http://www.ucckeene.org/history.html
The current steeple is a replacement of the one that toppled through the church sanctuary during the Hurricane of 1938, which prior to this years’s flood was the biggest weather disaster in recent memory. The steeple also appeared as a backdrop in the movie Jumanji, parts of which were filmed here in Keene.
So it’s not just pretty, it’s a spire with a story!
And yes, Misanthrope, I’m particularly fond of that original post, telling as it does how I ended up to be where I am (which I guess is right where I’m supposed to be, thank you!) 🙂
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Dec 30, 2005 at 7:23 pm
Hmm, I’d better re-think my titles when I’m posting photos of pretty little Grafton. 😉
Yes, beautiful shot!
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Dec 31, 2005 at 7:10 am
This pic is gorgeous. It must be a blossom thing! Beautiful, and it reminds me of very happy days in Stony Brook.
Happy New Year!
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Dec 31, 2005 at 5:30 pm
Wonderful photo. I thought the trees had snow on them at first. That’s awesome about having the number one Google slot for Prettiest Town On Earth. And the Prettiest Town On Earth is a much bigger claim than just the Prettiest Town In America.
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