I often spend Sunday afternoons with my knitting, watching old movies, and totally vegging. Yesterday was so-o beautiful that I just had to go out and get some new foliage pictures. My friend, Rebecca Jensen was kind enough to drive me around, patiently stopping for every photo opportunity. Here are just a few of the beautiful sights we saw between B’ville and Oswego.
The canal and Lock 24 have not closed for the season yet but traffic has certainly slowed for the second busiest lock in the New York State Canal System
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When I was home last summer I tried to photograph all the painted bears because I knew their visit would be short. I think I got all of them except the one(s) on Pleasant St. A few years ago we had Painted Ponies here in Syracuse. What a great idea!!
There are many more, and often, two views of each … (more…)
Here are a few pictures we took in sackets Harbor on Saturday, October 10th, 2009.
Kagumi Yoshida & Yuka Sunano, Members of the Rotary International GSE Team from Japan
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The Finished Portrait
March 12, 2009
Melinda suggested that I do more work on his face. Actually, so did my friend Jimmy. I’m not sure you can tell how hard I worked to give him more expression. It’s about as far as I can go, though. The paper won’t hold much more color and the painting is in danger of being overworked. I’ll keep trying. I have two new sets of pastels - the Sennelier soft pastels for portraits and a 96-stick box of hard NuPastels. I do want to do a painting of the old Baldwinsville train station with an engine that was actually used here, and I’m sure I’ll keep trying portraits because David has been so encouraging.
Kaya Meets the Snow
The First Draft
March 9, 2009
After spending years doing Pet Portraits I decided to try (more…)
It’s that time of year again and the Baldwinsville Rotary Club is busy with everything from Spaghetti Dinners to Turkey! Here are a few pictures from the December spaghetti dinner and the Senior Citizens’ Holiday Party:
Dawn Custer, Chef & Club President
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It’s that time of year again! The Baldwinsville Rotarians are visiting the schools to give every 3rd grader in town a new dictionary.
Members of the visiting GSE Team, Howard Tupper, Norma Widmann, Jacquie Olmsted, and Pat Booth visit with the 3rd Grade at St. Mary's.
Recipients also include students in private schools and those who are home-schooled. The program is (more…)
The wonderful weather this weekend was the perfect excuse to head out to the Mohawk Valley in search of foliage pictures. I especially wanted to get some photographs of Fonda for the Fonda book I hope to publish next Spring. Interestingly, the foliage was spotty - past in some places, yet to arrive in others.
Conbeer's Farm
One of the first places we passed as we approached Fonda was Conbeer’s farm. Once we (more…)
Milescapes meets the Mohawk Valley!
I decided that since I have spent so much time this year photographing the Mohawk Valley - Fonda, Fultonville, Canajoharie, Palatine Bridge, and Johnstown, that I would participate in the Wemple & Edicks Crafts Fair rather than the Beaver Lake Golden Harvest Festival which I have done for the past five years. Good choice! Beaver Lake had rain (often heavy) on both weekend days. The weekend weather for Wemple & Edicks was nothing short of perfect.
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