Finding Ulysses

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

Yesterday, it was over 4 feet tall, with a couple of walls of nice looking snow bricks made by my young assistants. Today, it’s profoundly eroded, ruins of a lost civilization.
With rains continuing today, seek higher ground. The gorges will be filling up nicely.

They’re selling hot chocolate, at a dollar per cup, with the proceeds to benefit earthquake victims in Haiti.

A bald eagle spotted along route 89 in the town of Ulysses, New York.

There’s a new report of the Old Greeny lake monster, but some details of the report don’t add up very well.

The supposed monster of Cayuga Lake is most often given the name of Old Greeny, though someone who saw it back in 1979 called it Cayuga Katie. Most reports say that was the last sighting of the creature, thirty years ago.

The air is cool and crisp and cloudless. There is no moon in the sky. It’s a good night in Trumansburg to turn off the security lights, go out in the back yard, and look up at the Milky Way.

Alex Solla of Cold Springs Studio Pottery has taken a fine set of photographs of the Trumansburg Fair at night. I was there at the same time, but didn’t happen to see him. The lights that night were particularly stunning, in the crisping air. Seems like we’re moving toward autumn in that [...]

I’ve been told that the snakes are aggressive and eager to bite, but I’ve never seen these snakes do anything but go about their own business.