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I ran across two more giant elephants on the drive up to Connecticut this spring.  They decorate the front of a fireworks outlet located in a former gas station in Hardeeville, SC.  The pump islands are still there and the … Continue reading →

My northeast paddling season is suddenly getting busy.  Today I did a couple of small bodies of water, Lake Beseck and Black Pond, both in the Middlefield-Meriden area of Connecticut, about an hour south of Hartford. Beseck is well populated … Continue reading →

I’ve been in Connecticut for going on three weeks.  The weather’s been cold and/or rainy.  Not great paddling weather.  But today some good paddling friends were going out at Lake Mattawa in Orange, in the very nice north-central part of … Continue reading →

And so are my granddaughters!  All you have to do is look at them…sometimes from one week to the next. The music growth is more subtle, but at concert time it is on full display. That’s when all age groups … Continue reading →

I saw lots of oldies but goodies on a recent visit over to Sarasota on the west side of Florida.  It’s that area of the state, by the way, where the ocean’s in the wrong place and I get north … Continue reading →

This past weekend I hit some favored sweet spots, including one I thought would be long gone by now.  (If you’ve tuned in to this post just to see the paddling photos you can skip down to the gallery at … Continue reading →

I dropped by the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge west of Boynton Beach, FL, a few weeks ago and was fortunate enough to find a couple of stately Sandhill Cranes taking a leisurely afternoon bath.  Took lots of photos.  Click on … Continue reading →

It’s been almost a year since I’ve had any decent itch photos to add to this collection. Here are a couple scratchers I’ve seen just in the past week or so. A roseate spoonbill over at John Prince Park and a sandhill … Continue reading →

To borrow an old Ed Sullivan cliché, it was a REEELY BIG WEEKEND.   And it’s taken me a reeely long time to write about it because it took a reeely long time for it to settle in my mind. (There’s … Continue reading →

My daughter and her family have been spending a week the past few summers at a music camp in the White Mountains in New Hampshire. Specifically, it’s the White Mountain Suzuki Institute music camp held at Ogontz, an old, rustic … Continue reading →