Winter Walk at Storm King Art Center

Saugerties Lighthouse

Illegal and Thrilling

Appaloosa at Tanglewood Riding Center

Rap-Shaw in January

 

January Day Trip to Stillwater

Cold, clear and bright, with little wind, the ice is plenty thick. Some recent wind damage. Some water on top of the ice, hidden beneath recent snow. This is our 22nd consecutive month on the island. Stillwater Road is never smoother than during winter.

Claudia

Four pairs of cardinals are visiting us regularly this year.

Finger Lakes Natural Beef at the Regional Market

Gepetto's Wood Shoppe at the Regional Market

Mr. Geppetto will custom make any whirligig you can imagine. Just bring him your idea.

They sell standards, too, like this milkman and cow and a log cutter. 

Imagine this rather odd Snow White repeatedly giving one of the Dwarfs a kiss on his forehead, 

Heidelberg Bakery at the Regional Market

Saturday mornings at the Regional Market are always an adventure. 

Today we found our favorite coffee, Forty Weight, and a new booth for us, Geppetto's Wood Shoppe from West Monroe with original whirligigs for gardens or yards. [There will be snaps of their wares tomorrow.] 

Then we discovered that Heidelberg is at the market. Home is Herkimer for this excellent, non-industrial bakery. We love the Sourdough and the French Peasant. Cheers!

Once There Was a Pasture in the Rand Tract

Salt Mountain

Please note that the blue door is not a door for leprechauns. We know snow! 

Practice Safe Design

Why They Call It Sandy Island Beach

He's impervious to cold water. We took a walk on the beach on Sunday, that lovely warm day with the wind from the south, and we couldn't keep him out of it. He got to looking like this from diving into beach sand for a tossed stick. This guy never runs out of steam!

Hayman

When We Had Ice

Goat Paths Back to Streets

The Sky Turned Pink...

...the sun shone under the clouds at the horizon, and suddenly a rainbow formed almost overhead.

Snow Moai

Snow, Man, Snow

Jerome Takes in the View

Lights on the Lake

I imagined this photo for years. For 6 weeks Onondaga County's Lights on the Lake brighten the northern third of the eastern side of the lake. Thousands of cars drive through it to see themed arrays. The fleeting view one has from I 690 W is more magical to my eye.

To photograph it, though, was an exercise in focus (or not quite focus) during a narrow window... a few minutes at dusk. Before that it is too light. After that we are not allowed into the north end of the park.

I looked at the scene from the West Shore trail. Too far away and too wide a view.

I broke the rule, walked around Willow Bay after 5, and finally found the right angle to take a snap of the long stretch of lights and then the city of Syracuse, 6 miles away along the south end of the lake. 

Photographers encounter the frustration of photographing any light display. A display of lights is most enjoyable because of the whole, which includes the overall shape, movement in the arrangement, and one's own motion through or around it. When we see a Christmas tree, we don't see single bulbs; we see the classic and colorful, or monochromatic, shape. It is an illusion of sorts. But a camera likes to see each and every single bulb. Not interesting. Have to recreate the illusion. Aha.

Mizpah Tower: Detail

El Dorado Beach on Lake Ontario

Eldorado Beach on Lake Ontario, deserted, the waves coming in high onto the beach, frozen sand thawed down 3 inches to a frozen table, the sound behind the dunes like a freight train. The dog was in his glory. 

Ice Forms on West Shore of Onondaga Lake

Medieval Syracuse

Here's Hoping Columbus Freezes His Butt Off

Media Unit: Breath of Fresh Air Gallery