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Not so much Marching as Trudging

March comes in like a Lion and leaves like a Lamb “Like many proverbs for the month of March, it can be traced back to Thomas Fuller’s 1732 compendium, “Gnomologia; Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British.” Fuller compiled numerous proverbs and studied weather lore across many countries through the late 1600s and early 1700s.”  Tom Sater,…

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#An Icy Reception #Hair of the mad dog March Hare that bit you. #Ides of March #March #Spring #The Freeze Drying of Sam McGee

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👑 Certifiable

I’ve occasionally heard older folks describe someone, unkindly, as “certifiable.” And it was easy to figure out they meant “fit to be certified as insane.”  But “certifiable” can mean, of course, genuine and authentic. In the same vein – – bona fide, legitimate, hallmarked, trademarked, legitimate, etc. And tons more, some are kind of fun to trot out – – indubitable, incontrovertible,…

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#AI #All our chatbots are paper trained. #✋✍️ #Blogging #Certifiable Human-Made Writing Product #ChatGPT #chumwp #Did I pass the Turing Test?

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Pine bough

       

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#Finger Lakes #FLX #Ice #Nature #Upstate New York #Winter

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Walks Around the Finger Lakes. Schuyler County. Color Wheels.

      These bicycles are a nice bit of color in a time of brown and gray. Along a road winding up into the hills and  the Finger Lakes Forest. A largely agricultural area north of Watkins Glen, now being “built up” with houses, summer cottages and of course, more wineries. And gift shops.  I’d thought macramé plant hangers were finally extinct, but turns out, they were just tangled up somewhere…

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#bicycle #Don&039;t say dummy it makes the mannequins angry #Finger Lakes #FLX #New York #Upstate New York #Winter

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Walks Around the Finger Lakes. Seneca Mills Falls, Keuka Outlet, January.

      After a lot of unusually warm weather in December and January (at least, warm by northeast standards), the falls were behaving like it was spring. The turbulent water undermines the stone walls along the creek, the remnants of old mills. The Universal Friends, a religious sect similar in some ways to the Quakers, built the first grist mill here in 1790. The Friends also added a second,…

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#Finger Lakes #FLX #History #Keuka Lake #New York #Upstate New York #Waterfalls

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All that glitters is not gold...sometimes it's aluminum metalized polyethylene terephthalate

  It’s a new year and time to try something new, so I thought I’d delve into a conspiracy theory. I usually avoid conspiracy babble and internet rumormongering like the plague. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not opposed to all mongering. Who doesn’t love getting fresh seafood from a fishmonger, for example.  And I love a schmear, but only on a bagel. But this conspiracy, I heard mentioned on NPR, what…

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#conspiracy theory #glitter #internet rumor #Wait wait don&039;t tell me

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Wagons Ho

  I’m having fun swopping photos of wagons with Liz at “Exploring Colour,” here’s two photos I took years ago. An old wagon in Logan, Utah, and a surrey made in Waterloo, NY. Here’s the link to Liz’s post  https://exploringcolour.wordpress.com/2023/01/15/way-out-west/  I know I’ve got shots of a Conestoga, the big freight haulers of their day in the northeast U.S. and Canada, I’ll add ’em when I…

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#leave the fringe on top #short on the sides #surrey #wagons

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Clean slate for the new year

Clean slate for the new year

      Over the holidays, I visited Corning, NY – – famous for its glass museum, the largest collection of historical and art glass in the world.   Landscape – George Inness – 1870 – Rockwell Museum   But the town also has another excellent art museum, the Rockwell.  It’s well worth visiting.   “Clouds in the Canyon” – Thomas Moran – 1915 – Rockwell Museum A lot of the art relates to the American…

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#Finger Lakes #FLX #New Year #start afresh #Upstate New York

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A handful of resolutions

A handful of resolutions

  l Don’t walk around with blinders on. Enjoy a good draft once in a while.       Take the time for a closer look. It could be a place, an idea, a book, a piece of art or music, or a person.     “Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.” That’s from the King James version of Proverbs, often restated or paraphrased…

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#Blogging #New Year&039;s #Resolutions

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New York extends deer hunting season through the holidays. Run, Rudolph, Run

New York extends deer hunting season through the holidays. Run, Rudolph, Run

New York State has decided to allow a “Holiday Deer Hunt” (seriously). Christmastime deer hunting – – seems like a great way to promote a the great outdoors If you’re not a hunter, a walk in the winter wonderland, a snowmobile jaunt, a cross-country ski trek  – we have a new slogan: “Not just Icy, Pretty Dicey!” And “See Some Wildlife?  Duck!” And here’s an old Chuck Berry tune for the new…

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#bargain/reindeer hunting #Bells & Ears Are Ringing #Caribou and others of that ilk #Chuck Berry #Chuck Berry but not Buddy Holly #Finger Lakes #FLX #hunting #looking through hind sight #New York #parody #Upstate New York

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Looking out the window

Looking out the window

          Cellphone snap at the Albany Historical Society

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#statues

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Seeing it for myself - Houston,Texas

Seeing it for myself – Houston,Texas

Johnson Space Center   Growing up in the northeast, watching “Paris, Texas”, “From Dusk Till Dawn” “Judge Roy Bean,” etc.  getting news from the NYTimes, it was easy to write Texas off as that crazy place that we can’t ignore. A strange family member who we have to tolerate in our union of fifty states. In Norway, around the time I visited in 2015, they were using the term “Texas” to mean both…

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#¡ahora cuéntame una de vaqueros! #Houston #Texas

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Walks Around the Finger Lakes - Red Oak Leaves

Walks Around the Finger Lakes – Red Oak Leaves

      This was taken on an overcast day, and the leaves were obviously suffering from tar spot after a humid, hot summer, but I liked the rich color. Pretty much the last to fall, the maples and ash trees are already bare.

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#Autumn #Fall Leaves #Finger Lakes #FLX #New York #Upstate New York

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Sidewalk drama in four snapshots

Sidewalk drama in four snapshots

Saw this pile of leaves across the street.     A couple of swift kicks later, it looked much happier.         But all too soon, the work of art was vandalized and swept away. The END.

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#Autumn #Fall Leaves

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Dalí Savings Time

   

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#All In Good Time #milwaukee #Persistence of Memory

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Ginko

                Perhaps everyone has tired of pretty leaf pictures, but I decided to chance it and post three snaps of a ginko tree. The ginko doesn’t leap to mind as a go-to for autumn foliage. It seems like a lot of years, the leaves just turn yellowish-brown and drop to the ground. But this year I’ve seen a number of them putting on a spectacular golden show. I’m always pleased to spot one…

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#Autumn #Fall Leaves #ginko #Nature

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Walks Around Upstate New York. Cobblestone Schoolhouse, October, Late Afternoon

Walks Around Upstate New York. Cobblestone Schoolhouse, October, Late Afternoon

    x A few days ago, I posted some pictures from a nature preserve on Lake Ontario. The lakeshore there has stretches of coarse gray sand and a fair number of fallen trees, where the clay bluffs eroded during winter storms. And lots and lots of rocks, what they call a cobble beach. I wanted to show what folks in the area did with all those “cobblestones.” This is a one-room schoolhouse, built…

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#cobblestone #History #New York #Rock On #Schoolhouse #Upstate New York