yes!!! Purple!!! I drew this while I was watching So You Think You Can Dance. I can feel movement in this flower. Much thanks to the dancers for their beautiful and artistic movement. I found this at River Lea, the home of the Grand Island Historical Society. just purple. more purple. so many wildflowers are […]

Buckhorn Island State Park on May 11th. I was taking a walk through the park and was fascinated by the baby leaves on some of the trees at Buckhorn, which is a nature preserve and an Important Bird Area. It is a restored wetlands. Pear blossoms, May 13th. One of the fleeting pleasures of spring,

A new adventure for a new year! On January 30th, I will be headed to Quito, Ecuador, for a month at the Banana Spanish School.  It is a total immersion program. I will take four hours of lessons at the language school daily (Monday through Friday) and will live with an Ecuadorian family. The goal

I love to walk by the Niagara River. Yesterday, as I was headed to the Holiday Inn to go swimming, I looked intently at the water, which reflected the vast blueness of the sky. It was a delight to watch the ducks paddling around in the water. It’s fun to watch them dive headfirst into

On Sunday, September 26th, I participated in the annual CROP walk. The length of the walk was just six miles, and the goal of the walk was to raise money to provide help for people who don’t have enough to eat. I truly love food and I don’t think that it’s right that anyone should

When I went to language school in Antigua Guatemala for eight weeks back in 1987, I stayed with a Guatemalan family. That was part of the program. You live with a family that does not speak English, which offers you two options: 1) speak Spanish or 2) don’t talk. Anyone who knows me knows that

Recently, I’ve been walking through Buckhorn Island State Park. It is a wildlife preserve and an Important Bird Area. Buckhorn Island State Park is a good example of the wetlands of the northeastern part of the United States. It features many varieties of tall grasses and cattails, as well as numerous species of migratory birds.

The Niagara River Greenway Commission hosted the fifth annual Paddles Up event on July 24th. It was held at Beaver Island State Park, at the southern end of Grand Island. The event featured people in canoes and kayaks, who followed a preset course in the Niagara River. I joined Larry Austin, the editor of the

Walk for a Nuclear Free Future: As a child, I believed that the world would be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust before I could grow up. As a result, the “what do you want to be when you grow up, dear” questions took on an abstract quality for me. Well, I am happy to report