Category Archives: Life

OUT: Hobbes, greyhound, ankle

Poor guy. Because Hobbes is hurt, he wasn’t allowed on the Buffalo Bills’ team plane to London, even though he is the Official Greyhound of the Buffalo Bills. (Yes he is! Look at his cast! He has to be! I’m sure … Continue reading

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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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