About a year and a half ago, I started making an afghan. I chose to make small squares, and I thought that this would be a quick process. (insert the sound of a buzzer). As it turns out, I couldn’t have been more wrong. This afghan requires more than 200 small squares, and I am
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It’s (almost) Wordless Wednesday. So, I am sharing some lovely autumnal images with you. What do you like best about autumn? How do you experience it where you live?
On September 10th, John “Joe” Synakowski passed away at the age of 96. My friend Mary Cooke, who was with him when he passed away, said that one of the last things he said was, “I had a good life.” Indeed he did, and Joe made an impression on a community that will never be
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Today’s blogging prompt is to talk about some way in which I stumbled. Today, I’m going toshare the story about how I managed to stumble dramatically out of a raft during a whitewater rafting trip in Letchworth State Park and, then, to bizarrely think that I had died and was on my way across the
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In the past four months or so, I have discovered the joy of collage. It’s a great way to preserve images without having stacks of magazines, brochures, etc., taking up space in your home. The fun of collage is combining similar images to create a theme or somewhat different images to tell a story. It
It’s easing into autumn now, so I’m focused on those delightful foods that you can get in this season. The apple and pear trees are bearing fruit. Although the peach trees are just a few weeks past their harvest time, there are still plenty of peaches available for canning or to make into other tasty
When I was fifteen years old, I decided that I had no talent for art. Which was actually very late for a kid to make that decision. Generally, kids see the gap between what they are doing and what they feel they should be doing between the ages of nine and eleven. According to an
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Isn’t autumn wonderful? So much color and such a beautiful harvest. I don’t even have the words to describe it. So, I will defer to someone else, who described it far better and far more vividly. I am always happy to defer to William Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers of all times. He shaped
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Yesterday was the second day of a printmaking workshop that I attended at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery. This studio, located in downtown Buffalo, is designed for adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. It’s a very cheerful looking studio, with brightly colored images decorating the walls. The people who come to the studio daily produce
Here are pictures of some of the flying things that I’ve seen recently on my adventures. It’s been fun for me to photograph these flying things and to share them with you. It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no, it’s super blimp!!! That was really something to watch. I don’t know if I’ve ever in