Binghamton: In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Binghamton: Cool Porch With View

Laying Asphalt in Binghamton

My father was a mechanical engineer. I am most certainly genetically predisposed to find interest in mechanical operations. 

These guys probably found it hot, physically challenging and dirty. 

Here's to the people who do the hard work!

Ski Bean Poles

Broome County Coop Extension Vegetable Garden

Binghamton: Lost Dog Cafe

Mardi Gras masks at the Lost Dog. We like the Lost Dog Cafe a lot...super wait staff, tasty and fresh food, WiFi, attractive and changing deco, all around good spot.

Court House in Binghamton

Confluence of Chenango and Susquehanna RIvers in Binghamton

The Susquehanna takes a long and winding path to get from Otsego Lake at Cooperstown to this point in Binghamton. The Chenango comes in from the north at the right.

By this point the Susquehanna has already dipped into Pennsylvania for a little stretch near its closest point to the Delaware River along Route 17. 

From here it travels west and then drops back south where it travels almost 300 more miles across 170 miles of Pennsylvania before it comes to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.

The entire watershed, this and another great branch, is in great danger from horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, for natural gas and is already feeling the effects of environmental degradation and loss a sense of place as rich agricultural land, forests and small towns become specks on an industrial landscape.