Today, I’m starting on a new Ultimate Blogging Challenge. This blogging challenge is held four times a year: January, April, July, and October. The goal is for bloggers to post daily for the challenge months.  Today’s post is about the month’s theme, which is change. Change of seasons and retirement are two of the changes that […]

Butterflies are amazing insects. My sister Diane and I had the chance to see many of them in a butterfly exhibit at the Erie County Fair. Butterflies exist everywhere in the world, except for Antarctica. Here are some interesting facts about butterflies: they are insects they have their taste receptors on their feet they go

Some of the gardens that I visited in Buffalo had statues and fountains as elements. These statues and fountains created atmosphere. They gave the gardens a story. They made the garden feel like a secret and private place.  In the midst of busy-ness, there was a quiet sanctuary. The garden, no matter how large or

On Sunday, July 29th, I had the opportunity to visit a great variety of gardens in Buffalo, during the annual garden walk. The garden walk is always held during the last weekend in July, and this year’s version was the 24th annual garden walk in the City of Buffalo. monarch butterfly. I will share photographs

As Jude and I were traveling west after the Saturday house party for Nathan McMurray in Murray, New York, we saw this beautiful sunset, so we stopped to take a picture.  Dear Readers: Thank you for your comments. Please keep them up. Also, please keep them on topic. I’ve been having some problems with off-topic

In January, I shared the story and images of Nathan McMurray’s announcement that he was running for the House of Representatives in New York’s 27th district. Here is a link to that post. Running for Congress in a district as large as New York’s 27th means a lot of travel. For me, that has been virtually

Happy Sunday! It’s midsummer, and it’s a beautiful season, full of sunlight and bright colors. It has rained off and on this weekend. After days of heat and dryness, the precipitation was welcome. Here are some of the colors of the past few days for you. Coming next week: The Buffalo Garden Walk is scheduled

You wouldn’t bee-lieve how mad government can be Lately, it seems as if government has gone mad. Sooo… the question is… is this anything new? Apparently, the answer is no. Lunacy in government has been going on for centuries. One of the most dramatic examples of a government gone mad occurred in ancient Rome. On

Today, I spotted a monarch butterfly flitting amidst the coneflowers. It was beautiful and it stayed for some time before flying away. Here are some portraits of the lovely butterfly, that fluttered by until it fluttered away. Butterfly magicflying over sea and landconeflower visit Stop, smell the flowerslook for the nectar withinpollination time Stretch colorful

What questions do you have for me? Ask me anything you like. No question is too silly or too profound. I might not be able to answer a profound question but go ahead and ask. I can usually answer a silly question, so feel free to make your silly question as wild as you like.