Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Not Getting To Know You

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How does this happen? He was my neighbor for 30 plus years.  He was my friend on Facebook. We (my spouse and I, he and his wife) spent a...
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Monday, November 6, 2017

Music Moves Me - Instrumentals

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Do you remember when instrumental music was common on rock stations.  I do, and I miss it. For this freebie "Music Monday", I...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Peter Peter Pumpkin People

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I'm sorry.  I can't let go of fall.  I don't want it to end. Wintery (sort of, considering our ultra mild fall so far) weathe...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Local Saturday - Is the Daylight to Standard Time Change Necessary?

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Over 100 years ago, time was truly local. Did you know there was a time when there were no standardized time zones in the United State...
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Friday, November 3, 2017

Halloween Sunrise #SkywatchFriday

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Halloween morning, upstate New York, October 31. I was walking, and decided to do a progression several seconds apart. The eastern h...
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

The Dreading Games

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Wasn't it fun to be a kid and look forward to the block of time we now call "The Holidays"? Yes, that block of time. It ...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Fall Fancies - They Won't Win

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The news, upon leaving work today, was sad.  Perhaps not unexpected. Scarecrow, Bainbridge, New York The terrorists struck against New...
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

A Halloween Mystery

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Halloween - so many memories.  Dressing up in costumes as a child.  Dressing my then young son in costumes.  The Halloween he trick or treat...
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Monday, October 30, 2017

Music Moves Me - Creepy and Spooky Alltogether Halloween

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Today's theme, on the day before Halloween, was a tough one for me! When we talk about Halloween, exactly what are we talking about.  ...
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Sunday, October 29, 2017

A Case of Mistaken Vanessa

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Red Admiral? Or painted lady? It's a long and winding road, this beginning journey of trying to learn the various butterflies of my ar...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Local Saturday - A Visit from Vanessa Atalanta

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This may not be my best month ever as far as injuring myself, but I am finally having some luck with photographing butterflies. These pict...
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Friday, October 27, 2017

Skywatch Friday - October Variety Pack

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Looking at the sky this week. Sunrise this Monday Midday Tuesday, with a hill full of fall foliage in the background. Wednesday, ri...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Trees Speak - Thursday Tree Love

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If only the trees of upstate New York could speak, what could they tell us? All pictures taken October 25 in the Binghamton, New York are...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Fall Fancies - Fall at Last

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The trees aren't waiting any longer in upstate New York. Let the weather stay summerlike.  They need to go into hibernation. In ...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

This Was the Place

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In October of 2011, over a month after a historic flood hit much of the part of New York State where I live, I wrote this email to a frien...
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Monday, October 23, 2017

Music Moves Me - Mondegreens

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Have you been guilty of mishearing song lyrics? I suspect that all of us have.  I've even blogged about it a couple of times in the past...
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Sunday, October 22, 2017

Post Number 2900 And Six Things I've Learned Along the Way

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This my 2900th blog post. Me, my shadow, and some gourds, October 2017 How did I do it? I started my blogging journey in April of 200...
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Saturday, October 21, 2017

Local Saturday - Meet the Cows

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These pictures were taken two Saturdays ago at a Tioga Farm/Art Trail open house at Engelbert Farms near Nichols, New York. As far as they...
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Friday, October 20, 2017

Not Unlucky - Skywatch Friday

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A Friday the 13th (last Friday, to be exact) sunrise as seen from NY17 near Binghamton, New York.  I was a passenger so I was able to enj...
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Thursday, October 19, 2017

Throwback Thursday - The First Ice and the Last Flowers

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I hope the blog post title didn't scare you. No, I'm not trying to take a breather from the Ultimate Blog Challenge, although I ha...
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