Day 212

July 31 – Report Card Day I met my goal of 11,000 steps on 20 out of 26 possible days for 77% or a C. That’s way better than April, May and June, but besides that, my daily average was 11,146 steps so I’m bumping that C up to a B or maybe even B+. […]

Day 211

Great day! Started out with a walk along the canal, breakfast at the Towpath Cafe, and shopping at the Fairport Farm Market. Almost every town has a farm market these days, and they’re all fun. They usually have music of some kind and fresh, inexpensive produce. I bought this beautiful bunch of sunflowers, a half dozen […]

Day 210

The all day rain made it easy for me to treat myself to a day of reading. I wanted to finish a book that I started when I was in Old Forge. The Highest Mountain, by David Pitkin, is a police thriller with a spiritual bent. It’s set in the Adirondacks, and I had my NYS map […]

Day 209

Today I went with some other members of the Wayne Writers Guild to do some poetry reading at Parkwood Heights, a senior living facility off of Rte. 31 in Macedon. The Parkwood is a beautiful, airy place with this lovely atrium. Most of our readings today were humorous or at least light-hearted, reflective of the place […]

Day 208 Ft. Stanwix, NY

Right in the middle of the city of Rome, NY is a reconstructed version of Ft. Stanwix. We came upon it while taking a different route home from the mountains. I love getting off the Thruway and finding things like this that I haven’t seen before. Ft. Stanwix dates back to pre-Revolutionary War times and […]

Day 207

This totem pole sits in front of the Old Forge library, just one of the signs that the creative arts are thriving in this interesting Adirondack town. In fact, they seem to be thriving in all of the Adirondacks. Maybe it’s the natural beauty that brings out the muse in everybody, but there are art […]

Day 206 Old Forge, NY

Old Forge, NY is a quaint little mountain town which is totally within Adirondack State Park. The park was created in 1892 to help preserve the state’s water and timber resources. Encompassing 6 million (that’s not a typo) acres, it is larger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Glacier and Grand Canyon national parks all put together. Gary […]

Day 205 Sweet Corn

We had our first sweet corn of the season today, and it was good. About the middle of July, Gary and I start looking for the Wilberts to put out their roadside stands. For our money, they have the best sweet corn around. We wouldn’t even consider buying corn at the grocery store, although we […]

Day 204 Walworth 5K

Here’s a picture of the runners starting off at the 5K sponsored by the Walworth Lion’s Club and the Gananda Insurance Center. Almost immediately the group had to charge up this hill. I wish I could say I was running, but I was just there just to hand out t-shirts and bottles of water. It […]

Day 203 Festival in the Park

If you want to see patriotic spirit, you have to attend a small town parade. Tonight the Walworth Lion’s Club kicked off the Festival in the Park with a local parade. It had all the right ingredients: firetrucks, beauty queens, girl scouts and boy scouts, marching band, and decorated floats all with a patriotic theme. I […]