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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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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

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View 250: Apple Drive

It was a crisp autumn morning last Saturday.  Temperatures had dipped below freezing for the first time this season and the sky was a clear and deep blue color.  It was a day of many photowalks all over the world … Continue reading

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View 248: Canopy Road

Canopy roads have large moss-draped live oaks, sweet gums, hickory trees and pines casting protective shade over roads around Tallahassee, Florida, with limbs that meet in a canopy to provide cooling shade for the roads and very scenic drives for travelers. There … Continue reading

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Heralding the End of Summer

The Autumnal Equinox is defined as the point in time the center of the Sun passes through the same plane as the Earth’s equator in the direction from North to South on or around September 21st or 22nd each year.  … Continue reading

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