Category Archives: Life

Kites at Wilkeson Pointe

On Labor Day, The Wife and I went down to Canalside in downtown Buffalo to hang out a bit, and afterwards we stopped at Wilkeson Pointe on the Outer Harbor. We hadn’t planned on the second stop, but we wanted … Continue reading

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A metamorphosis, in progress

When we moved to WNY way back in 1981, my grandmother visited and noticed that our new backyard had a lot of milkweed in it. She told me that milkweed is a preferred plant for Monarch butterfly caterpillars, and we … Continue reading

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Pictures from a Weekend

Presented without comment. More on my Flickr page!  

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Nineteen

It’s the birthdays you should be celebrating, but aren’t.

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Jiggety-jig

This newfound habit of mine, in which I post here on Monday through Thursday and then don’t post at all Friday through Sunday, is not an intentional habit at all; it’s just one of those seeming habits that gets dictated … Continue reading

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You’re still here?

Another few days of no posting! What gives? Well…there’s a lot going on right now. A lot going on right now. Some of it I’ll almost certainly write about soon, when I have leave to do so; some of it I … Continue reading

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Unplanned Hiati!

Is hiati the plural of hiatus? Let me go check…. Answer: It is not. It’s hiatuses. OK then! Anyway, I had no planned intention to take an entire weekend off from posting here, but that’s what happened. Nothing major happened, just a busy … Continue reading

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At the Ridge….

For the first time since Cane died last September, I went hiking at Chestnut Ridge Park yesterday. Chestnut Ridge is an old park whose development by Erie County began back in the late 1920s, and a lot of the park’s … Continue reading

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Scenes from amongst the lilacs (and a bit of Rachmaninoff!)

The warm months of the year, for us, tend to be bookended by two specific festivals: the Rochester Lilac Festival in May, and the Ithaca Applefest in October. Lots of stuff happens in between, but those are the markers of … Continue reading

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Twenty-six

The Wife and I were married twenty-six years ago today. The years keep presenting new challenges, on and on and on…but they also keep producing memories, more than a few of which are happy ones. I used to note that … Continue reading

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