Category Archives: Weekly View

View 214: Winter of 2010

The delivery of a Western Digital My Book Studio 3TB External Hard Drive last week had me backing up and upgrading my Apple MacBook Pro laptop all weekend.  After hours of moving files from an older 500GB external drive, backing … Continue reading

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View 213: George Eastman House

The 35,000-square-foot Colonial Revival house of George Eastman took three years to build and was completed in 1905 at a cost of $300,000.  The estate originally included a stable, garage, barn, five greenhouses, and many vegetable and flower gardens on eight … Continue reading

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View 212: Dogs Days of Winter at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Now that it looks like winter in upstate New York, I headed out to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo to take advantage of their annual Winter Photo Contest which lets people in the zoo for free if you bring a camera with … Continue reading

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View 211: Family Portrait

I grew up in the 1960’s with television and television commercials.  For those of us in Central New York, the commercials for Utica Club beer were very memorable because of the talking beer steins, Schultz & Dooley.  The West End … Continue reading

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View 210: Wild Africa Trek

Kilimanjaro Safari ride has been a featured attraction since Disney’s Animal Kingdom opened in 1998.  The safari is a drive through an African forest and savannah with many of Africa’s most popular animals roaming freely.  Guests ride a safari “jeep” … Continue reading

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