Finding Ulysses

How hot is it here in Trumansburg, today? We’re warmer by three degrees fahrenheit than Birmingham, Alabama. We’re four degrees hotter than Atlanta. We’re five degrees above Miami.

A mayapple, flower native to Ulysses.

I’m wondering what the climate memories of Trumansburg natives are, and how they’re living differently in warm years like this one has proven to be.

Last night as took a walk in the woods, I heard the sound of the spring peepers calling out for mates.

According to Zillow, the value of homes in Trumansburg has leveled out, and even improved very slightly, after a significant drop in 2008. Zillow’s calculation of our village’s average home value is now at $175,900 – about $14,000 lower than it was at the height of the market in 2008, but still a 4.3 percent [...]

What’s the current participation rate of Trumansburg in the 2010 census?

A video on efforts of people living near Trumansburg to operate their farms in a more sustainable manner.

Security light flooding my back yard stars from one quarter mile off.

It’s available for viewing for a limited time only, between the melting of the snows, and the budding of the leaves on the blackberries growing around its rust.

A video of a softly coating snow that came at the end of February 2010 with a general snowstorm hitting Trumansburg from the south.