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Kristen and Todd’s engagement session was one of our first of the season. The flowers and leaves were barely in bloom, but ended up being one of the most fresh and colorful that we could have imagined! Perhaps part of the beauty of Spring is the fact that it is so fragile and fleeting. The tulips, hyacinth, and lily of the valley are so welcome against what is left of winter’s backdrop, but they fade as quickly as they appear. What follows is brighter, stronger, and more showy but somehow less delicately poignant and deeply affecting as the spring bouquets. I can’t image a more perfect setting for an engagement session!
For More information about Elizabeth Park, West Hartford, CT (from their website):
The area which is now known as Elizabeth Park was once owned by Charles M. Pond. Mr. Pond was a wealthy industrialist and statesman whose career included being a Director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Hartford Hospital, and the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company. Mr. Pond was also President of the Hartford Trust Company and he was Treasurer of the State of Connecticut.
When Mr. Pond passed away, he willed his estate to the City of Hartford with the stipulations that it be used as a horticultural park and that it be named for his wife, Elizabeth, who had died a few years earlier.The City hired Theodore Wirth as its first park superintendent to design the garden areas. Mr. Wirth’s first project was to create a rose garden because, in his words, “it would please the people.” This first planting grew from 100 bushes to the two and a half acre garden of some 15,000 bushes that is the center piece of Elizabeth Park and is known throughout the world.
Today the park encompasses 102 acres and boasts many garden areas, pathways, greenhouses, lawns, a picnic grove, a pond and recreation areas.
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