Blog Posts - Upstate New York

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This gorgeous house was on my daily walk last week along Cayuga Lake (in the Finger Lakes of NY) and it's my favorite architectural style.  Don't know what it's officially called but I love it!Notice the browned out grass?  Usually rare for...

This past weekend I was up in central NY (think 5 hrs from NYC)  to celebrate our 28th wedding anniversary and a 30th college reunion - the fun including spending time in the beautiful lakeside village of Skaneateles NY (I've posted many times a...

Just the other day someone close to me told me of an acquaintance of theirs that recently lost a baby. The moment they mentioned it I felt the knot in my throat with the familiar ache in my chest and the tears just came. I knew that feeling, I k...

Just the other day someone close to me told me of an acquaintance of theirs that recently lost a baby. The moment they mentioned it I felt the knot in my throat with the familiar ache in my chest and the tears just came. I knew that feeling, I k...

I'm back from a long weekend in Central New York, the first night in the beautiful village of Skaneateles, a few miles from where I grew up.  Clift Park is full of flags, each one dedicated to a veteran by family and friends, sharing their grati...

It has been about seven months since I left Penang to move back home to the US, so I thought I should write a note here. We have settled in to our new home in Upstate New York State in the US, a country like setting just outside of Rochester.We have...

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) iMDB Rating: 5.8 Date Released : 1 February 2013 Genre : Biography, Comedy, Drama, History Stars : Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West. The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Mar...

I remember going to the Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show (also know as the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show) as a kid. This was years before I was able to drive and probably not the best thing for a kid who was already salivating at the thought of getting a...

I remember going to the Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show (also know as the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show) as a kid. This was years before I was able to drive and probably not the best thing for a kid who was already salivating at the thought of getting a...

Pennsylvania→New York→Massachusetts Making our way from Ohio, we quickly passed through Pennsylvania and I was in total deep slumber the entire time, so no pics at all for Pennsylvania. When I woke up, I managed to annoy the heck out of my demand...

Morristown is down the river and across the border from Montreal.  In Quebec the river is known as the St-Laurent, and in New York, the St. Lawrence, but it is the same great waterway. (photo credit: wikipedia.org) In our last pos...

This was a lovely fall wedding in upstate NY at a private country residence {photographed by TC Photography}. The bride took an empty barn and transformed it on a budget. She even made her wedding dress from her mother’s. It was an amazing day,...

The Iroquois attributed these long, relatively narrow lakes to the Great Spirit, who laid his hands in blessing on this particularly beautiful area of upstate New York. Unless the Great Spirit had eleven fingers, though, it's more likely that glacier...

We have been seriously prepping for Hurricane Sandy to show us what she’s made of, so no Weekend Photos in Review tonight. Unless you want to see my newly cleared basement floor? Madeline’s school is already closed Monday and Tuesday, Nic...

I am finally traveling again and I can’t wait to share!  I have been so busy I have not updated this blog in awhile. But stay tuned because I have a lot to share with you. Right now I am in upstate New York, where the fall colors are amazing!

After more than a decade of regular yoga practice, what’s keeping me going is the yearning for improvement, of the hope for eventually unlocking the secret to what practicing yoga will yield. If expecting a different result for doing the same t...

I’d like to introduce you to Jonathan Bee (on the left) and Kent Hunter (pictured right) – they are the proprietors of Hunter Bee on Main Street in Millerton, New York. I first stumbled into Hunter Bee several years ago when we were still...

Fractal Construction back to get an honor to work on a major project. Fractal Construction was asked to design the Hudson Valley Country House to be built at Cold Spring New York, United States. Design of the Hudson Valley Country House is taking the...

This is a good read. The characters and plot are well-written. You can definitely tell the author spent some time behind the camera. Which is all really interesting and entertaining. So why three stars then? My personal quirks, which I’ve talke...

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