President Grover Cleveland had the unusual distinction of being the only president who served two non-consecutive terms. He was elected for the first time in 1884. He was also a bachelor when he was elected but he remedied that situation by marrying 21-year-old Frances Folsom. That was another unusual distinction for President Cleveland. Very few […]
Here are some more images from my day at Letchworth State Park with Ellen, Joseph, Amelia, and Thomas.It was a beautiful autumn day, even though the leaves really have never become as vivid as I was hoping that they would be. It was quite impressive to watch a huge hot air balloon take off. I’ve
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It has now been a month since I was released from the federal prison camp in Danbury, Conn. That was a bizarre experience, and I’ll write more about it in a later post. So… six months in the clink and then I was turned loose onto an unsuspecting world. Well, the government is blissfully unsuspecting.
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On Tuesday, March 13, I walked down the bike path to Beaver Island State Park. It was the first time that I had been on the bike path since early in January, before the arctic air blew in for an extended stay.I had been hoping that I would have one more chance to explore my
I continued walking down the bike path. Some of it was still covered in snow. In the warm sunlight, the snow rapidly turned into mush. I stomped through puddles. The wind hit me on the left and on the right, and the water stirred in the puddles. I saw water bubbling out of its ice
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This caterpiller added color to a bleak background and offered hope of more color yet to come.
The naked trees of winter have a beauty of their own. Their beauty is in their shape. Some trees appear very geometrical, with their branches headed off in different directions. Other trees appear more rounded. The bumps and lumps and holes in the trunks are more noticeable now.
