July 31 2011
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 […]
July 29 2011
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 […]
July 28 2011
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 […]
July 28 2011
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 […]
July 28 2011
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 […]
July 24 2011
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 […]
July 24 2011
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 […]
July 23 2011
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 […]
July 23 2011
I stopped by the hidden sidewalk on my way to lunch with the #22 School retirees at Crescent Beach. The hidden sidewalk is a great place to walk. It’s a paved sidewalk on the lake side of the homes along Beach Ave, just west of Ontario Beach Park. I parked on Clematis St. and crossed […]
July 21 2011