along inlet at south end of Canandaigua Lake

driving home after the camping trip

first pink peony blossom we'd seen this season, spotted along a roadside:

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Taughannock Falls:

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forlorn little boy at
an interesting building at an old Victorian cemetery

photos of me, taken by Garion:
(I love how the two images connect almost perfectly! And if you look at the first one close-up, you can see G's little reflection in my glasses :)


a good omen spotted at our campsite:

Finger Lakes National Forest camping trip - Day 1

Seneca Farms Dairy on Rt 14A towards Penn Yan - excellent home-made ice cream - I had cookies & cream custard twisted with cake batter custard (sounds nasty but actually tasted like a "gourmet" chocolate/vanilla twist)

2009 Rochester Lilac Festival

of all the many varieties in bloom, these were my favorite on this day:

azaleas, magnolias and lilacs - Oh my!

in Highland Park for the 2009 Rochester Lilac Festival...


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home sweet home

...is back up north again! Views from my airplane window of sunset over the Finger Lakes (I'm guessing those might be Seneca and Cayuga Lakes?):

just before coming upon this truckload of corn glowing in the winter sunshine, I'd passed the field where corn was being harvested and sifted by a large combine - going east on 5 & 20 between Lima and Bloomfield

Tim at bank ATM in Canandaigua

we went on a "date" at the Geneva Ice Skating Rink :)

we took a Sunday drive to see what the local countryside looked like on such an unusually warm December day:

at higher elevations, there were still remnants of snow...