January 2018

Today, it snowed. The wind blew and the air bit my face as if it were an angry animal. My garden now seems like a distant dream. On Thursday, January 25th, at Stella Niagara, I started creating a little bit of a two-dimensional garden, with paints on paper. I started trying to create a world […]

Note:  Lee Tetkowski, 94, is a retired art teacher. She taught for many years in various schools, including Grand Island High School. I have had the honor of knowing her since 2006, when I wrote an article about the reunion of the first graduating class of Grand Island High School. The high school exists because of

In Lewis Carroll’s magnificent story, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, one of the participants at the Mad Tea Party was a dormouse. That dormouse was very sleepy and had to be awakened on several occasions. Of course, that tea party had been going for quite some time. The Queen of Hearts heard that someone had claimed

Note: On January 15th, I wrote about Grand Island Town Supervisor Nathan McMurray’s special announcement, held in the Brickyard Brewing Company in Lewiston, New York. “I am running for Congress against Chris Collins in the 27th district,” Nate said to a crowd of about 200 in the restaurant’s upstairs room.  That was the start of Nate’s

Well, January 24th is global belly laugh day. It doesn’t quite get the designation of “holiday,” but it probably should. Everyone needs a belly laugh because we all need to be distracted from very annoying things, like the way that the Windows 10 update is designed to delete all of your text, after you’ve spent

The suggested topic for today’s post in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge was to create a list. A whole bunch of lists were suggested, including “ten random things about me.” So… I chose that. Here are ten random things, in no particular order: Here are enough garlics to scare away one little vampire. 1. Bad food

On Sunday, January 21st, I went to downtown Buffalo with Town Supervisor Nathan McMurray, his wife Min, and their two sons to participate in the second annual women’s march. In Marching with 4,500+ friends in downtown Buffalo, I shared my impressions of the event.  While I was walking, I had the opportunity to take closeup pictures

On Sunday, January 21st, I went to photograph and to experience the second annual women’s march in downtown Buffalo. It was a colorful event on a warm winter day, a good day for a march. Many people marched, with friends, with family, and with their dogs. The Buffalo Police estimated the crowd size as 4,500.

Today, I am featuring you in my blog. When I read the comments that you share on my posts, I am so happy and grateful. I really appreciate everything that you tell me. You open me up to perspectives that I would not have considered. You give me new ideas and you express so much

Over the past few years, I have taken pictures of Woods Creek. I’ve taken pictures of it full of ice and snow. I’ve taken pictures of it when the ice had started to melt. Some of these picture depict the waters overflowing their banks.  winter On Christmas Day 2017, this was Woods Creek, looking very