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Category Archives: Travel
View 257: A Dickens Christmas
For the 19th year, the Village of Skaneateles (New York) Chamber of Commerce is hosting a Dickens Christmas. Local actors portray characters from Charles Dickens’ classic story, A Christmas Carol, in what has become a holiday tradition for many Central … Continue reading
Posted in Travel, Weekly View
Tagged 28-300mm, actors, bagpipes, charles dickens, entertainers, father christmas, fill flash, holiday, jacob marley, music, new york, nikon D700, piper, santa claus, sb-700, skaneateles, village, vr
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Happy Halloween
While I was out looking for autumn colors, I came upon lots of Halloween decorations of my neighbors. Since today is Halloween, I thought I would share some of them with you. The funny epitaphs on these graveyard tombstones reminded … Continue reading
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Tagged 28-300mm, baldwinsville, decorations, graveyard, halloween, holiday, lawn, mummy, new york, nikon D700, orange, painting, pumpkin, scarecrow, skull, tattoo, tombstones, tymeless tattoo, vr, window
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View 251: Wine Tour East
For my Aunt’s 80th birthday, my cousins arranged for a limo bus to take a wine tour of a few eastern Seneca Lake wineries. Last year, I had sampled some of the western Seneca Lake wineries. Both tours had one … Continue reading
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Tagged 24-85mm, autumn, bagg dare, building, finger lakes, flash, grapes, hazlitt vineyards, hdr, kings garden vineyards, landscaping, new york, nikon D700, photomatix, red cat, sb-700, slushy, speedlight, three brothers wineries, trees, ventosa vineyards, willow, wine
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The Empire
The Empire apple was developed by Cornell University scientists in 1966 at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva as a cross between Red Delicious and McIntosh. Empire apples have a sweet-tart taste that is ideal for eating and … Continue reading
Summer of 2012
Since I am asking people to share with me how they feel about the End of Summer in this month’s assignment, I thought I would go back and share photos from the Summer of 2012. These photos may be associated … Continue reading
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Tagged airline, airport, blur, boys, children, clam chowder, clouds, crunch, dwyer memorial park, flowers, key, kids, lake, layfayette, little york, motion, movement, new england, new york, New York State Fair, night, panning, pier 57, restaurant, rides, seneca lake, soup, southwest, st. louis, street hockey, syracuse, tripod, watkins glen, winery, zoom
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