I must apologize to my readers for not posting as frequently as I should and I thank you for your patience. Summer is here and the 4th of July is just a few days away. We should take time to reflect upon the reason for ...
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It’s a picture that I have been hoping to take here in the Finger Lakes for the last ten years, but I could never get close enough to really identify them with my meager camera equipment. Last Sunday, the 13th of February, Jeanette and I ...
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In my last blog, I showed a picture of our neighbor towing his children behind his 4-wheeler. For some folks here in the rural part of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State, I would guess that this was not such an unusual picture ...
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January is our coldest month here in the Finger Lakes and after the snow storm that we had on January 17 and the ensuing single digit temperatures, it looks like we may be headed for some kind of record this year. Jeanette asks “how do ...
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The holidays are now passed and here in Canandaigua, NY we are in the middle of a January freeze. The temperatures are in the teens during the day with wind chills making it feel like the low single digits. I have been reviewing some of ...
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The Joy of Christmas The darkest days of winter are now upon us. As humans, we want to hibernate like the animals of the fields and forests, waiting upon better days with more daylight and sun. And yet this is precisely the time that we ...
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Our national news is filled with all of the shortages that the news puppets perceive we Americans are facing this holiday season. There is a shortage of gasoline and gas prices have risen to the point where the President has to open our strategic oil ...
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Our fall seasonal change here in the Finger Lakes was punctuated with many days of rain, overcast skies, and days of waiting for the sun to dry the grass just enough so one could mow the lawn between showers. I took a picture of our ...
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A couple of Sunday’s ago our minister announced that he was turning over the service to the Boy Scouts on June 20. I instinctively reacted, “But that Sunday is Father’s day”! He said yes, but this was a special occasion and that a couple of ...
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