October 21 & 22, 2007 Pics

 

This picture was taken at a "turkey shoot". He says he will be shaving his head after Halloween. He also told me that last year, he had a Christmas tree with a candy cane on it and red and blue lights. He strikes me as a man who isn't afraid to enjoy the fun things in life.

I was hoping I could upload a bunch of pictures at once (using Picasa). I forgot the system doesn't work that way. It seems to limit me to four at a time. (So I am uploading them in groups of four at a time and copying the code into my original post. I save it as draft until I have finished adding and arranging the photos, adding text, etc.) I am using the smaller view so be sure to click on individual pics to see the larger version.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
     

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.