Alice Gerard

 Today’s blogging challenge is to offer some historical tidbits, both personal and worldwide, and to talk about the changes between then and now.  Tidbit number one: In 1871, the Chicago fire started. It wasn’t just any fire. It was the Great Chicago fire. It started in a barn after a very dry summer. Early autumn […]

Today’s blogging challenge is to talk about weekends. Do I like to write or blog during the weekend or do I prefer to take the time off? Well, I don’t know. Maybe a mix of both. It depends on what’s happening on any particular weekend. I don’t like to plan my life far in advance

  I’ve been having fun taking pictures of pumpkins. They used to all be round and orange. Bright orange. So very orange. Now, they can be a variety of colors. And not necessarily smooth. Some pumpkins look like they got into the poison ivy. For real. Well, maybe not for real. Who knows? Can a

  Today’s blogging prompt is about autumn. What do I do in autumn that’s unique to the season? Well, now that it’s October, I start getting excited about my favorite holiday, namely Halloween. It’s all about candy, dark shadows, a good fright, and costumes. But it’s still weeks away.  In the meantime, there are plenty

 Last Wednesday, I paid my first visit to the Viking Diner. It is a new restaurant on Grand Island, having opened in February. Unfortunately, by mid-March, everything shut down, and most of us had to wait for months before we could enjoy such new treasures as the Viking Diner. The Viking Diner occupies the space

 Today, I am starting on another Ultimate Blogging Challenge, something that I have participated in since 2014. I don’t remember how I found this challenge, but I am glad that I did. It has helped me to grow as a writer and as a photographer and as a human being. The challenge is held quarterly

  Today’s blogging challenge is “content that delivers results.” What sort of content delivers results, I wondered. Well, how about a recipe? Or two recipes. My goal was to make baked pesto chicken thighs and potatoes. The chicken thighs that I am using are skinless and boneless. So I started by making the pesto. I

 On occasion, when I was working at my BIG GOVERNMENT JOB at Buffalo Harbor State Park, I was giving the task of walking the grounds of the park and picking up and discarding litter. It was a fun task. I got to take a walk all day. The litter collection turned into a few fun

It’s time for me to step out of my comfort zones and share a short video that I made with my phone. It was late in August, and I was on litter pickup detail at Buffalo Harbor State Park when I realized that there were ducks at my feet, following me around. Really. I’m not

How do you document the changes to a place over the course of the year? Well, you start by choosing a place that you really like and then by understanding what it is you love about that place. You will do a better job at documenting your chosen place if you can tell its story.