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Today’s blog post is about plants. It’s about flowers and weeds and invasive species. The concept of a weed is very subjective. What one person thinks of as a wild flower and worthy of a space in the garden is a weed to someone else and deserving of eradication. I had one gardening customer who […]

In today’s blog post, I am continuing with the concept of creating community in your home town. Today was a beautiful summer day, warm and sunny. It was a delight after so many dreary days, both rainy and cold. The radiance of today’s weather drew me to Buckhorn Island State Park, which is a restored

Note: Today is the first day of the July edition of the Ultimate Blogging Challenge. I will be blogging for an entire month, sharing stories of places that I visited and perhaps a few interviews with owners of small businesses here in Grand Island, New York. Check in every day for the post of the

The theme for week 23 of the 52-week photography project is geometric shapes. Triangles, circles, squares, and rectangles are strong compositional elements in an image. When I draw a picture, I start by drawing a shape. If I’m drawing a flower, I might draw a circle for the flower and a long, narrow cylinder for

On Saturday, June 24th, the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce presented its 21st annual KidBiz. This event offered kids from second through eighth grade the opportunity to create their own businesses and to sell their products at tables in Town Commons. There was as big a variety of products as there were kids. The products

The subject for week 22 of the 52-week photography project is hands. Hands are a marvel. We use our hands to create and to nurture. We form clay with our hands. We draw and we paint and we knit and crochet, using our hands. We dig weeds from the ground and plant flowers. We prepare

At Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a bell is rung when someone is in remission or is cancer free. Matthew Eggers &Mark Gorton, thedynamic duo One of Relay for Life’s two honorary survivors, Matthew Eggers, will most likely hear that bell when he goes for his eighteen-month checkup next week. That is how long that the seven-year-old

The challenge for week 21 of the 52-week photography project was the word “soft.” A few weeks ago, I was challenged to come up with a representation of the word “hard.” I chose to use the theme of the cemetery to depict “hard.” For the word “soft,” I will depict images that represent the softness

On Thursday, June 1st, I walked from the northernmost part of Grand Island to the south end, a distance of about thirteen miles. It was a gorgeous, sunny day, and I started walking after my Zumba class. My goal was River Lea in Beaver Island State Park, where the Grand Island Historical Society was holding

Mark Gorton (age 43) and Matthew Eggers (age 7) are the two honorary survivors for this year’s Grand Island Relay for Life, which will be held from 4 p.m. until midnight on June 9th at Veterans Park on Bedell Road. They are known as the “dynamic duo.” Mark Gorton works for the Grand Island school