Alice Gerard

Happy Friday! Here are some flowers for you to enjoy. The gardens are beautiful and colorful, thanks to the massive amount of rainfall. #floralfriday

The topic for week number 27 of the 52-week photography project is “communication.”  How do people communicate with one another? In the below series of photographs, I will attempt to find methods of communication, both expected and unexpected. Communication can be verbal or nonverbal. It can be done through gestures and actions, as well as

Today, I went to explore gardens in Buffalo. It was the second day of Buffalo’s 23rd annual Garden Walk. Buffalo’s Garden Walk is described as the largest garden walk in the United States. Grassroots Gardens isa group of communitygardens that operatesthroughout the City ofBuffalo, mostly on theeast and west sides of the city.They focus on food

Today, I am following the Saturday microfiction challenge. The first sentence was given to me. The challenge is to write a complete story in five sentences. Here is my story, titled “Laughter and Song.” In the silence, each tick of the clock echoed in their ears. The house had once been full of laughter and

This year, I joined the Becker Farms CSA, which is short for “Community Supported Agriculture.” Community supported agriculture is a program that permits people to purchase locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers. Becker Farms is located in Gasport, New York. Gasport, a hamlet in the Town of Royalton, in the eastern part of Niagara

Here in Grand Island, New York, the ash trees are dying. The emerald ash borer has become infestation  widespread. It is only a matter of time before the trees are all removed. Thirty to sixty percent of the trees on Grand Island are ash trees, so this will be a big loss of the community.

Today, I am participating in a challenge, called #writing wednesday. I found the challenge on another blog. There was a list of ten words and the challenge was to use anywhere from four to ten words in the blog post.  Here are the ten words: walk, darling, sand, taunt, silence, trap, blood, reason, right, brittle

Today, I was having a little difficulty in deciding what I wanted to write about in my blog so I looking on line for a blogging prompt. What I found was a question to answer: “What six people, living or dead, would you invite to dinner?”  That seemed like a great start to a potentially