The turtles were moving this time!

The quail again!

Makes me want to be in Arizona now!

Mmm, an orange!

Purple Shamrock – how cool!

I can’t wait to go next month!

Seriously, if you point your camera in any direction and shoot, you can’t get a bad photo.

The smell of the flowers – I wish I could share it with you, as I’m sharing their beauty. It was wonderful!

These flowers are just amazingly beautiful!

I just love the flowers in the various places:

And I love the orchids all over:

What’s not to love about flowers this time of year, and what’s not to love about the George Eastman House!

It is so gorgeous! And the Ag H2O exhibition was very interesting. Check it out for yourself!

These remnants of painted ladies are beneath the ad, near street level:

Higher up and at 3rd story window level, you see this:

There are faded out ones you can’t make out anymore:

And there are ones that have been repainted (love them!!)

But the one that has people buzzing these days (can it be preserved? can it be registered so it can be preserved?) is this one I just took a photo of last night:

Check out the Ad Art on buildings around where you live. You’ll be surprised at how much there is, old and new!

There were several quail babies!

And turtles

It’s so nice to see the colorful plants and flowers during this time of year.

On the other hand, I think young people have quite a bit to offer, too, and you just need to figure out how to do so without whining about older people. They’re *not* taking your jobs. End Rant.

And here it is starting to pull the barge. That tugboat has a diesel engine the size of a train engine!

It continues to pull it, getting it turned into a position so it can start pushing it:

And now it’s pushing it out from the harbor into Lake Ontario:

And about to enter the lake:

On its way to Rochester:

This reminds me of the book “The Little Engine That Could.” This is the little tug that could.

Waiting for the sun to set, hoping those mean-looking clouds don’t decide to pour on us:

There were three sailing ships in the harbor, which I didn’t get to see sailing (because I was working), but here they are resting. I was on the fort side of the harbor, so I didn’t get the photos I wanted to get:

Sun has set, mean-looking clouds still hanging around:

And finally it was dark enough for the fireworks. There are hearts, flowers, stars, smiley faces and so many phenomenal fireworks, and for some reason my first video (with all of these cool things) didn’t download, but here’s the ending (sorry for the wiggly video – an ant was crawling on me and I couldn’t get rid of it!):

I had to buy a firewire cable.  That didn’t come with the camera.  Go figure, right?  Amazon.com had the cheapest one.

I had to download a new Codec.  Yeah, what the heck, right?

I had to download ffdshow:

And I had to download HDVSplit:

I put all of this software on my PC laptop, opened HDVSplit, and viola, now I can see my camera and download my video.   Most of this information I obtained from a board on overclock.net.

In case you don’t believe that Syracuse, New York is devoid of snow, here’s a couple of pics I just took on Montgomery Street, outside of work (Onondaga Historical Association), a few minutes ago:

Unbelievable. It’s supposed to go up to 53 degrees F today. Enjoy your day!

(I didn’t take this photo, I would have centered it better, hee hee)

A couple of months later, I was told to get my hiney back there, because they tore out the middle section of the complex:

And on the northwest side, they found an interesting structure in the middle of another portion they tore down. Safes are inside of this little structure. The safe on the top floor will be opened and displayed.

I documented via photos and web (not done with the web yet) the Octagon Schoolhouse Cemetery, and filed for an historic marker, since this cemetery has NO marker or sign, at all.

I’ll find out next year if the marker is approved.

My apartment was full of ghoulish things for Halloween (not mine), but I do like the lights in the window.

I try to capture the full moon on December 10 over Irondequoit Bay.

There are some funky clouds in this one:

I try to go for a ride in the snow at the New York Museum of Transportation, but alas, no snow:

This was our engineer:

After the snowless trolley ride, I checked out the museum, and the buses outside. How about this old greyhound bus?

Next I learned that East Rochester used to be called Despatch, and yes, it was a big railroad town. I have rare film footage of a factory there that built railroad cars. Cool beans! This is the railroad side of Despatch Junction:

Here’s part of the old factory where they built the RR cars:

I think the side of this building says “Merchants Despatch”

And we had a great time at Aunt Avie’s and Uncle Jerry’s home for Thanksgiving this year. Here I am holding my cousin’s new baby girl. Don’t you love the way my cousin looks at his daughter?

And then there’s Christmas. I haven’t downloaded the photos yet, but the old apartment windows are highly decorated with icicle and other lights and dripping with fake snow, since there’s no real snow. Yet!