The prompt today was to write about something fun and what could be more fun than walking in an area full of giant rock formation? Okay, maybe walking that same area at night under the stars? Would that make me a rock star? Hey, stop groaning, and don’t click that X at the top of […]
Today, I am sharing pictures of birds that I’ve seen this year and last year here in Grand Island, New York, and elsewhere in Western New York. Yesterday, I was headed to the Grand Island Town Hall for a meeting of the Historic Preservation Advisory Board when I saw this group of turkeys. I took
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It’s (almost) Wordless Wednesday, so I’m sharing pictures of Buffalo’s City Hall, both inside and outside. Buffalo’s City Hall is an art deco structure that was built between 1929 and 1931. It was dedicated on July 1st, 1932, during the city’s centennial celebration. It is an amazing structure and, in the past few years, the
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On August 14th, I had the opportunity to ride on the Edward M. Cotter, a 125-year-old fireboat that belongs to the City of Buffalo. It is considered to be the oldest working fireboat in the world, and it was designated a National Historical Landmark in 1996. That is interesting to me because I had no
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The Erie Canal was called “Clinton’s Big Ditch” by people who were very skeptical about the idea of digging a canal through wilderness. DeWitt Clinton was the governor of New York, and he saw the canal as a great opportunity to create infrastructure. This canal was to link the Hudson River with the Great Lakes,
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Today, I’m going to start posting images and stories about the Erie Canal, which is now 200 years old. I hope that, within this blog, I can do this history justice. Today, I am sharing some photographs of the western portion of the canal. The above picture is Lockport, where the locks, called the “Flight
Today, I went to the Orange Poppy Art Studio, located on Baseline Road, across the street from St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church, on Grand Island, for a pumpkin workshop. This workshop was all about decorating a paper mache pumpkin. There were two choices for decorating the pumpkin: paint or decoupage. I already had a pumpkin
part one The pictures here are from days one through seven of Inktober. The prompts are moustache, weave, crown, murky, deer, earring, and starfish. In the days when bears and humans spoke the same language, there was a boy who was best friends with a bear cub who was known only as Baby Bear. The
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Today, I am sharing pictures of bees that I have taken any time I saw a bee busy on a flower. Some bees are better at posing than others.
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What could be better than getting ready for my favorite holiday? It’s all about bright colors and fun. It’s about apples and winter squash and celebrating autumn, as well as getting to be any character you want to be. The only down side to Halloween is that it can be really cold and, as someone
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