I had intended on going out to take photos of the eclipse, but instead found myself enthralled with the total view of the night sky. This, my friends, is why you move out to the country.
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Here’s the Eclipse, nearly full.
I almost spit out my WPOP when I saw Jim Cramer break out the term BANANA on Mad Money last night. So I grabbed my camera, snaped some shots (I’m not geeky enough to have hacked my Tivo… yet) and sent the photos to BuffaloGeek because I consider him responsible for popularizing the term BANANA…
Today was the first day in about three weeks where we actually had the opportunity to get out and do something fun. We decided to head up to Lockport to visit the Lockport Caves. I wasn’t really expecting much, but we were both pleasantly surprised. You get about an hour tour that gives you some…
First off, the delays at the recently vanquished toll barriers sound much worse in today’s Buffalo News article than they actually are. The day the tolls ended was bad. Every day since then, they haven’t been significantly worse than when they were taking our cash. Possibly a minute or two slower at the Black Rock…
For Easter I made four 2kg batches of sausage – two for the smoker, one fresh batch for the grill, and a batch of breakfast sausage links (not shown). It was my first time using curing salts and smoking the sausage at a lower temp (160-180 F) than normal smoking temps. It was a tasty experiment, I…
Speaking of the Skyway… since winter has officially ended, let’s tally up Skyway closings. We had an early unprecedented storm in October that resulted in widespread driving bans, yet no official Skyway closings. We had another late start to winter, but then had a pounding of snow and frigid temperatures. For the second year in…
Below is a letter that the Anti-Flipping Task Force sent to eBay: (from Buffalo Issue Alerts) April 13, 2006 Michelle Mallory Peacock Deputy Director, State Governmental Regulations eBay, Inc. 2145 Hamilton Ave. San Jose, CA 95125 Dear Ms. Peacock: We appreciate that eBay is taking our concerns seriously, as stated in your letter dated February…
The Starry Night photo is very, very nice! That would make a nice large framed and matted print.
Derek, wonderful pictures.
I lived in Holland as a kid (Hi!) and remember more than a few starry nights when the only light was from the Fisher Price factory on the other hill. Your pictures were much better than any I ever took back then!
I saw you commenting in my brother Paul’s blog, and couldn’t resist responding to a fellow Dutchman ;>
Oh – congratulations on the new expectant arrival.
Joe