Today, I am following the Saturday microfiction challenge. The first sentence was given to me. The challenge is to write a complete story in five sentences. Here is my story, titled “Laughter and Song.” In the silence, each tick of the clock echoed in their ears. The house had once been full of laughter and […]

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