93rd Birthday Celebration Weekend

This past weekend was a terrific weekend! We started out with a nice evening picnic at the sailboat launch in Emerson Park on Owasco Lake. John picked up take-out from Connie's (a Mexican restaurant in Auburn) for the two of us. I took some photos while we were there.

Owasco Lake - Auburn, NY

John's dad turned 93 on Wednesday, July 4th. On Saturday, we had a wonderful picnic celebration at John's sister's home (which is the home John and his brothers and sisters grew up in).

John's dad cutting birthday cake


John's dad and oldest son, Christopher


John played and sang


"Now I've got a few words to say."

On Sunday, we took a drive out route 318 and dug up some "butterfly weed" that we had seen growing there on our way out to Rochester the weekend before. We also dug up a "black-eyed Susan-looking plant". (I transplanted them all to my house yesterday.) When we got back from rt. 318 we stopped in briefly at Emerson Park again and I got some pics of young ducks. Then we went to Niles, heading toward our friends' Jack and Heather's house. We stopped and visited an old silo down a seasonal road on the way there. John would like to play his sax and guitar in the silo because of the fantastic sound qualities. He is going to try to get permission from the owner.


We call these young ducks "teens"



Old barn and silo in Niles


I thought the different shading of the bark on this tree looked interesting.


This was a storm coming in.

While we were at Jack and Heather's, we noticed all the moths "parked" on a shed door. They were quite interesting and didn't seem to care that we were observing them. I am finding that if I take time to observe them closely, they turn into "cute little critters" that Pixar could use as a base for movie characters.