Category Archives: On Buffalo and The 716

Visions from the Outer Harbor

Posted on August 4, 2023 by ksedinger

Some shots from my photography session down at the Buffalo Outer Harbor this past Sunday: More photos from that day, with full-size versions, in this Flickr album. By the way, I think I am now going to start using HUE … Continue reading →

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At the Ridge….

Posted on June 5, 2023 by ksedinger

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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Restaurants come, restaurants go….

Posted on June 3, 2023 by ksedinger

For the last couple of years we’d heard great things about a new-ish restaurant in Buffalo called Compass Run. We finally went there a few months ago and loved it and made mental notes to get back. Last night we … Continue reading →

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Sunset over Lake Erie

Posted on May 6, 2023 by ksedinger

This spring has been odd, even by Buffalo-Niagara standards. We’ve had our usual cruddy spring, but judging by how advanced the trees are right now, it must have been a better than usual spring. We’re usually not this green until … Continue reading →

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Knox Farm: a bittersweet return

Posted on April 16, 2023 by ksedinger

I returned to Knox Farm today, for the first time since last year. I’ve been wanting to return to my weekly nature walks; they were always calming and inspiring and gave me moments of quiet to recenter my life. The … Continue reading →

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Don’t you dare photograph this thing that is obviously intended to be photographed!

Posted on April 12, 2023 by ksedinger

Alan Bedenko has the rundown on an obnoxious bit of copyright enforcement going on in Buffalo: a mural artist who painted a mural on donated exterior building wall-space, after saying that he intended it to be the kind of mural … Continue reading →

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A night amongst the blossoms

Posted on March 6, 2023 by ksedinger

The other night we attended a night-time orchid show at the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens. Somehow we managed to live here for quite a few years before we finally visited the Gardens, and even so we’ve not gone … Continue reading →

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A Preference in Weather

Posted on January 4, 2023 by ksedinger

I will take 26 degrees and snowy over 46 degree and rainy. After our blizzard and lake-effect storm ten days or so ago, just about all of it has been melted away by warm temps and rain. We have a … Continue reading →

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Being fortunate….

Posted on January 1, 2023 by ksedinger

As the Christmas Blizzard recedes into memory and melting (it’s been well above freezing for days now, so most of the major snowpack that fell during that storm is gone already), I find myself thinking about how fortunate we were … Continue reading →

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I coulda been a rock-star photographer….

Posted on December 28, 2022 by ksedinger

Last Thursday night, The Wife and I attended the evening performance of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which comes around to these parts every December. Lots of people mock TSO, but we always have a grand time when we go. This was our … Continue reading →

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