Picture Connecticut: Hey ... Watch That Tree

ENFIELD, CT — This week, the Picture Connecticut is on foot in the northern reaches of the Nutmeg State and has come to a place that can easily stop one dead in his or her tracks.

An two words come to mind ...

What the ...?

On North Street in Enfield, sidewalks were installed curving around trees.

This explanation is from longtime resident Matt Buanno, who in 1986, helped pour the sidewalks in the new Rye Hill development.

Said Buanno to Patch, "They were beautiful old trees that the builder didn't want to cut down, so he wanted the sidewalk around them. I worked for Coffee Concrete and we did all the sidewalks and garages and basement floors in that development. I think I was 18 or 19 at the time. We were required by the town to run the sidewalks down from High Meadow to the existing houses on North Street just short of North Maple."

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Picture Connecticut is a weekly series that features randomly encountered images of the state, past and present. Here are past images:

2024

• An opera house and its mural, Broad Brook
• A plane's descent, Suffield
• Bearing Down On Thanksgiving Day, Manchester
• A Welcomed Puddle, somewhere in CT
• Hiram Rider House, Willington
• We All Vote In A Yellow VW, East Granby
• Payne Whitney Gymnasium, New Haven
• Daily Train Crossing, Windsor
• The Civil War Train Monument, Vernon
• A Spooky Sculpture, Tolland
• Whalers gear ... in Carolina, Cary, NC
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 2), Mystic, Stonington
• The Hurricane of 1938 (Part 1), New London
• Firefighters Memorial Garden, Manchester
• Eagleville, Mansfield
• Island Beach Ferry, Greenwich
• High School Sports Booster Car Washes, anywhere in CT
• The Lyman Orchards Maze, Middlefield
• A bucket of FC, Vernon

• The Bug Mailbox, Ellington-Somers
• All Faiths Gather At Town Park, Vernon
• Riverside Igloos, Milford
• The TPC Pro Shop, Cromwell
• The Santa House, North Pole, er, Northern Connecticut
• Mile 4 Funnel, Manchester Road Race, Manchester
• UConn Lacrosse Giving Back, Connecticut River Valley
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 3, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 2, Hartford
• The Capitol Grounds Tour, Part 1, Hartford
• The Doughboy, East Hartford
• The Walt Whitman Stone, West Hartford
• The indoor bush plane, Hartford County
• The Big Pink Chair, Ellington
• The Notch, Granby
• The CT 9/11 Monument, Westport
• Vintage Gas Pump, Somers
• Tobacco Harvest, East Windsor
• Late Afternoon, Lakeside, Coventry
• Fogarea, New Haven County
• Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens, Washington Depot
• Connecticut River Police Boat, Rocky Hill
• The first dentist, Windsor
• The Frog Bridge, Willimantic
• The World War Bridge Rapids, Putnam
• The Peeking Cow, Tolland County
• The Ivy Lacrosse Tournament, New Canaan
• The Bradley International Airport runway, Windsor Locks
• The Underground Railroad, Unionville
• The cow carousel, Ellington
• Charles Island, Milford
• State Veterans Cemetery, Middletown
• Glastonbury-Rocky Hill Ferry, Glastonbury/Rocky Hill
• The Old County Jailhouse, Tolland
• Agent Orange Monument, Andover
• The Sunken Garden, Farmington
• Lafayette Tour Monument, Vernon
• The Pinchot Sycamore, Simsbury
• Bob's Discount Furniture Studios, Manchester