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Confessions of a Delaware Park First-timer
Until yesterday, I had never walked through Delaware Park. In Buffalo, this is almost a kind of heresy. Delaware Park is Buffalo’s equivalent to New York City’s Central Park: it is the biggest of Buffalo’s public parks, the one with … Continue reading
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Sundays at Chestnut Ridge
Twice in recent weeks I have taken The Dee-oh-gee to Chestnut Ridge on our Sunday adventure-nature walks. Late spring and early summer are great times to go to this particular park, when things haven’t really started to heat up or … Continue reading
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Filtration
For lack of a better idea for a post, here’s a selfie from last week, followed by the results of applying several filters through an app called Prisma. Here’s the original: This was taken at Knox Farm State Park in … Continue reading
Four days in the Finger Lakes
I’ve been in love with New York’s Finger Lakes region pretty much ever since we moved to New York in 1981. My first sight of any of those lakes came that first summer. We moved here in June, I think–pretty … Continue reading
Another unmistakable sign of Spring
When these guys show up on our deck (and also start taunting the cats in the inside of the sliding glass door):
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Tuppence a bag
Two birds from this week. A robin, at work… …and a hummingbird at home. As for the post title? Here. The sound isn’t great, but I might well prefer this arrangement to the one Julie Andrews sang.
First Spring adventure
Last Sunday, Cane (the Dee-oh-gee) and I went out for a Sunday walk in the park for the first time since December. Why no outings since then? Well, we got back from Oahu just in time for the weather to … Continue reading
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Baineses need not apply
Apparently if your first, middle, or last name is Lyndon, you get free admission to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Generations of people named “Baines” are vexed by this, I imagine!
Fog, by lamplight
It was very foggy this morning, which made for some interesting visuals with the new LED lightposts at work. I took a photo, naturally: And as an experiment in impressionist mood, I trimmed it and ran it through a Prisma … Continue reading
The old stomping grounds…
…but from well before they were my stomping grounds! This is a photo of downtown Olean, NY, from I assume 1954, since that’s when Sabrina came out. This is seventeen years before I was even born, and twenty-seven before I lived … Continue reading