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March 05:
Winter
winks, blinks, and blues --Two
Saturdays in a row we have enjoyed blues skies and
crisp winter vistas. A wink in winter; blink and
it will be gone. ...
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February 05:
Wake
up and post some pix--After
dreaming away most of this winter, and chasing after
other rainbows, I'm trying to catch up on some posting
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April 04:
Boomtown
on ice --The
Reverend and I, hoping to finally
say good-bye to winter and its imitators, when down
to Niawanda Park in Tonawanda, on the Niagara River.
The crews had removed the ice boom from Lake Erie just
above the Peace Bridge the other day. The ice was defining
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February 04:
The
dog days of winter -- The
Reverend and I stopped at the
Buffalo WinterFest
at Hoyt Lake, across from the Buffalo State campus
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February 04:
Me
and my shadow -- The
interplay of light and shadow, mirrored in the snow
and trees, set the tone for a visit we made to Goat
Island
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January 04:
Back
to the abandoned locks -- Hoping
for snow and the contrast of cut stone and snow, the
Reverend and I returned to the
abandoned locks near Nunda
on the Genesee Valley Greenway near Letchworth ...
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January 04:
Bleak
midwinter turns a toasty 56 -- Bleak,
yes, but also balmy. That was the story today on Goat
Island overlooking the falls of Niagara -- ours and
theirs, U.S. and Canadian
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December 03:
Sometimes
the fun just snowballs-- Throwing
the snowshoes into the back of the truck, the Reverend
and I took a ride down to the Southern Tier
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April 03:
Riding
in God's top pocket -- I used to
have a friend who was fond of the phrase "riding
in God's top pocket", by which he meant that
things were going well ...
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March 03:
How
do ya say 'go back' in Garlic? --
As soon as the snow finally melted for the last
time, the garlic shoots in my yard made their initial
appearance. Since then, the weather has been so
nasty and cold ...
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March 03:
Ice
is nice, but enough is enough --
We
decided to see if a few months had made much difference
in the Ice
Bridge below Niagara Falls and to the
situation on Goat Island...
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March 03:
Erie
feeling -- all wet in winter --
We're back from a visit to Erie, Pennslyvania, to
see Presque Isle State Park (amazing) and the new
Splash Lagoon (weird but wonderful), an indoor water
park ...
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March 03:
We
sweat in the sun and snow -- We've
had it on our list to go back to the Deep
Cut section of the old Genessee
Valley Canal while the snow was on the ground. Today
was perfect, with sun and temps of 30 degrees F.
...
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January 03:
Cold front and back -- I
used to work with a funny guy named Jim, a copy
editor disguised as a walking encyclopedia -- and
as I said, funny, too ...
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January 03:
Ice Bridge spans time, space
-- We went up to the falls at Niagara Falls to see
the Ice Bridge, which finished forming last week
with the extremely cold weather we've been having
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January 03:
Red, white, and blue two
-- Red faces, white water (AKA snow), and blue-to-die-for
sky -- the Reverend and I went for a ride down to
the Southern Tier ...
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January 03:
Just chillin' in the wind
-- We took a ride up to Lockport and Middleport
for our monthly check on the Erie Canal. The day
was partly sunny and terribly cold because of the
wind chill ...
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January 03:
We walk on water again --
Once you know where the rocks are, the old joke
goes, it's easy to walk on water. Snowshoes help,
too ...
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December 02:
Ho,
ho, ho, it's off to Pgh we go
--The
Reverend
and I went to Pittsburgh for Christmas and took
the Moby
Dink down as well. I decided
to give it to my brother-in-law ...
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December 02:
We walk on water -- Even
when you can't get on the water in a little boat
of your own making, you still can get on top of
the (frozen, fallen) water-as-snow in your snowshoes
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December 02:
Rev Rev reverie -- To
get off to a good start on a new feature I'm calling
Winter
Dreams, the Reverend and I (which
makes two
Revs) went up to the Erie Canal
at Middleport to takes some pix and to check on
the status of the canal draining and to take advantage
of a wet 5-inch snowfall ...
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