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  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.

  Yesterday, I returned to the Niagara Dance Centre, where I had been a tap dance student from the fall of 2015 until the spring of 2016. I had loads of fun then and got to dance in the recital. Being on stage in costume is as much fun as Halloween (my favorite holiday). Unfortunately,

  The autumnal equinox will occur next Tuesday. It is the day when daylight hours and nighttime hours are exactly the same. And then, the days will grow shorter as the nights grow longer. Some animals are busily preparing to hibernate. Critters that hibernate include bears, bumblebees, hedgehogs, ground squirrels, bats, turtles, the common poorwill