Alice Gerard

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

For week 26 of the 52-week photography project, my goal was to simplify the background so that the subject of the photograph stood out. For this, I took pictures in in rural settings, where I found few distracting elements in the background. Here are a few of the images: Corn field. Grand Island, New York.

Today is comments and conversation day! A few days ago, I invited people to ask any question of me that they wanted. I got one response, from Sara Beth, with a list of questions: She asked: Why (When) did you start the Ultimate Blogging Challenge? The first time that I participated in the Ultimate Blogging

I’ve known people who have lived long, and I think, happy lives. Sometimes I ask them what they do to live so well and for so long. They just smile because, well, it’s a grand secret. When I attended the State University of New York at Brockport a number of years ago, I rented a

Yesterday, I posted the first half of the story about Flanders, a gnome who went on a fishing expedition alone and who got lost at sea. Here is a link to part one: link to part one of the (mis)adventures of Flanders the Sea Gnome Yesterday, the story ended with: We are nearing an island. I

This is the story of a gnome at sea. A garden gnome turned into a sea gnome. It is the story of survival in the face of insurmountable odds. Here is part one of Flander’s tale. Dangerous waters Getting in my boat. I’ve got a bucket for fish and I’m protected against poachers and other