Dusting off
Hey all… I’m dusting off the long-neglected Punaro.com. It’s going to look like a mess for a bit. Do not adjust your set. It’s not you, it’s me.
As a public service, I present to you the real Brierwood Plaza. I half expected that the preservationist in me would find some good qualities in the building as I got up close to it, but I found nothing. It’s not well built. It’s a lot of fascia over lumber. It’s has no unique aspects,…
I love cars and talk about cars quite a bit. My first car was a ’95 Chevy Cavalier and what my father would call “Basic Transportation” meaning, it was a no-frills, no extras, get ya from point A to point B kind of vehicle. I didn’t know much about cars when I owned my Cavy,…
Amanda and I both planned to take today off and turn this into a four day weekend for the sole purpose of going skiing. Planning ahead for a ski day is always tricky since you never know what the weather is going to be like, but today worked out perfectly. First, the weather was the…
Well, it certainly didn’t take long for a replacement for Media Play to move in. Albany-based Trans World Entertainment (NASDAQ: TWMC), operators of several music and video chains, signed long-term leases to operate two of the region’s five Media Play stores. Media Play closed its local outlets in January. The two stores re-opening under the…
Wow! It was a day of rainbows! I couldn’t believe the width and definition. These shots were taken from our bedroom. I have RAW format files too, I’m just a n00b at modifying them, so here’s the JPGs… Double Rainbow: This is a Supernumerary Rainbow: According to Wikipedia: A supernumerary rainbow is an infrequent phenomenon,…
I have a lot of respect for urban explorers that get into places that most others would never attempt to go, just for the sake of documenting the decaying history of a place that would likely be forgotten. As you can imagine, Buffalo has lots of these types of places – grain silos, Bethlehem Steel,…