Cruising Main Street In Style
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This couple from Southport enjoyed the beautiful weather on Sunday by cruising through town in their pristine early 60's vintage Mercedes SL 1 convertible.The vintage Mercedes-Benz SL convertible lineage began in 1954, following the marque's 1952 racing triumphs. The name stands for "Sport Leicht" (Sport Light). Over seven generations, it transitioned from a track-ready exotic into the pinnacle of luxurious, high-performance grand touring for the road.
Some collector automobiles of this type have fetched hundreds of thousand of dollars at auction.
Enjoy Hot Coffee And Hotter Cars This Saturday Morning, May 16th At INTERSTATE Westport Design Center
INTERSTATE Premier Building Materials will be hosting their annual Cars & Coffee event on Saturday morning, May 16th at their Westport Design Center, 800 Post Road East.
Previous event photos by J.C. Martin for WestportLocalPress.
Automobile aficionados and enthusiasts can enjoy some of Fairfield County’s finest classic, vintage and late model exotic automobiles for. Speak to the owners and get the scoop on some of the great vehicles and all are welcome to visit and enjoy coffee, espresso, craft beverages and lite pastries served by Love You Latte's mobile coffee house.
While you are there, see the finest in luxury and high end products in their beautiful two story showroom and see the latest products for building or remodeling your dream home. The event was rescheduled from last Saturday due to the weather and will take place from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Above, INTERSTATE CEO Sheldon Kahan with a couple of exotic Porsches.
Great Egret Fishing Gray's Creek
We spotted this beautiful Great Egret last week patiently search Gray's Creek for its lunch. The beautiful long, delicate plumes on its back long are prominent during breeding season.
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Great Egret vs. Snowy Egret, what are the differences?
Great Egrets and Snowy Egrets are distinguished primarily by size and facial features: Great Egrets are much larger nearly 40” tall with yellow bills, (sometimes orange-ish in breeding season), a thicker neck and black legs/feet.
Snowy Egrets are smaller, around 24” with black bills, yellow lores (skin between eye and bill), and are known for their "golden slippers"; bright yellow feet contrasted with black legs and can have shaggy plumes on their chest and back. Great Egrets tend to be patient hunters, standing still in shallow water. Snowy Egrets are much more active, often chasing prey or stirring up the bottom with their feet to find food.
Great Egrets patiently and carefully walk through the body of water in which they are fishing.
The CT DEEP has great information on these beautiful birds including their history in CT. Visit CT DEEP Egrets
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The great egret was a "very rare" Connecticut visitor by the mid-1800s due, in large part, to market hunting. Protective legislation passed in the early 1900s helped populations stabilize. By the 1920s, egrets were increasingly seen along the Connecticut coastline during migration. In the 1940s, they were regular coastal visitors and were even spotted in the Waterbury and Hartford areas. The first recorded great egret nest in Connecticut was in the Norwalk Islands in 1961. Today, the great egret nests in limited numbers on offshore islands along Connecticut's coast. The birds can be seen at many inland areas during migration and after the breeding season as they search for food.
Learn more about Egrets at All About Birds.org
Westport’s Terrain Welcomes Spring
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On Saturday, Terrain, Westport’s much loved home, garden and greenhouse on the Post Road held their annual Dig Into Spring 2026 event. The 17,000 sq. ft. store is a go-to source for nature-inspired décor, candles and lighting, seasonal packaged foods and gifts.Their greenhouse greenhouse offers a lush assortment of indoor plants and containers, as well as a station for custom plantings by their Design Services team. Terrain’s nursery is filled with locally sourced plants, outdoor containers and gardening essentials, as well as outdoor furniture and fire pits.
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Terrain’s spring kickoff festival featured live music, kids’ wildflower planting and Mother’s Day crafts, an Aperol Spritz bar, Pantry tastings, styling sessions, complimentary potting, native plant tours, guest vendors including Bodhi Bear Apothecary Honey and Redding Knife Company and free Polaroid photos in the garden. Above right, some of the nursery’s pollinator offerings designed to attract butterflies and bees to enhance your garden experience and improve the ecosystem.
But the highlight was the nursery itself, with banners showing groups ofdistinct garden styles with the growing conditions worked in:
The Cottage Garden – loves full sun; classic, colorful, dense plantings with lots of blooms, Woodland – thrives in shade to partial shade; lush, layered greenery and ferns, Meadow – airy and loose, usually sun-loving; natural, flowing grasses and wildflowers, and Big Sur – dry-tolerant, prefers sun; coastal-inspired plants that handle drought and lean soil
Pictured above and below is Guilford, Connecticut-born singer, songwriter, musician and Berklee College trained Laura Clapp provided a wonderful garden ambiance with her blend of pop and rock favorites.
Click on an image to enlarge and open gallery.It was a fun filled day and Terrain’s stylist, Lynn, said it best about her tablescape, “We wanted this to feel like you’ve just come in from the garden—rosemary in your glass, citrus on the table, and everything fresh, layered and ready to gather around.”
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