In my 24-year span of living in Canandaigua, NY, I can not ever remember a summer like this one. It began with a very mild winter, then lots of spring rains. When the rains finally stopped long enough for the farmers to plant this year’s ...

Happy Father's Day June 18 is Father’s Day. I believe that fathers play an important but frequently unrecognized role in our society today. It certainly isn’t easy being a father in today’s society as fatherhood seems to be attacked from all directions. Nevertheless, I put ...

The Old House on the Hill, It looks lonely, that old house on the hill. Not long ago there were children playing in the yard, playing pitch and catch or perhaps stroking a purring cat while their mother toiled in the garden and their father ...

Seneca Lake From Anthony Road Wine Company. Here in the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate NY, our daily temperatures have been bouncing up and then down – just like an old rubber ball that has rolled down the cellar stairs. One day we experience spring ...

Daffodils Blooming in Time for Easter. I begin my report on some weather events that occurred in the Finger Lakes on March 31, 2023. It was a grey overcast day here in Canandaigua, NY and even though scattered showers were predicted for that day, they ...

March can be a fickle month. On March 10 we received our heaviest snowfall of the 2022-2023 winter season here in Canandaigua, NY. For our neighbors to the west in the Buffalo area and the snow belt south of Buffalo, 5 inches to 6 inches ...

In my last post, I talked about the huge migration of snow geese that I saw on Canandaigua Lake. Shortly after that post, our temperatures dipped to a negative 6 degrees Fahrenheit on February 4. On that bitter cold day, we did not see the ...

I have been waiting for a nice sunny day to take some pictures and then one morning a few days ago, I spotted a very large group of snow geese on Canandaigua Lake. Their mostly white bodies were in stark contrast to the vivid blue ...

It’s a phrase used in almost every holiday greeting card, personal letter, or at year end parties wishing all of our friends and family a happy New Year. The new year is one universal celebration that is shared by all human beings and seems to ...