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A Weekend In Wine Country -- Finger Lakes, NY

“It’s five o’ clock somewhere.”

A phrase you’ve often heard to describe consumption of alcohol at an hour that might otherwise be considered uncouth, no? Well. Let me tell you, friends, there is something weirdly freeing about uttering those words at the blissful hour of 10 a.m.

The wee...

This past Sunday morning, one of my roommates and I decided to take the most recent addition to our family, a sweet tempered mutt named Bru, for a run around the neighborhood.  We bundled up because we expected the temperature to match the gloomy sky and cold weather from the past week. To our surprise, however, the weather was far from chilly. Despite the gloom from up above, the contrast of the psychedelic leaves picked up our spirits.

We ran to a small park and attempted to play catch with Bru, but the ...

As a photographer wannabe I love to discover new things to photograph and new ways to photograph them. Recently I have discovered that there is a world of beauty inside the petals of a flower or hidden in the tiny imperfections of a rock. That Macro setting some of you are discovering on your new digital cameras enable you to get right in close to the tiny bouquet of miniature yellow flowers lined up on the stem of a simple golden rod that grows in every field of the Northeast. It’s kind of like a hid...

My husband Tim and I (along with our long-time friends Bruce and Betsy) decided to go boating on the Cayuga-Seneca Canal this Memorial Day weekend, and had such a nice time, I decided to blog about it.  Here is a “Captain’s Log” of the experience in case you’re interested in taking a similar trip in the future:

Day 1 (Saturday 5/23/09)
After our holiday hotdog luncheon at Peppy’s in Geneva we head to Fayette to board our boat.  We fill the gas tank at Stiver’s Seneca Marine & depart at 12:40pm heading...

Wow, has anybody heard about the 5 bears cubs? I saw pictures of them and they are the cutest darn things you have ever seen. I assume that is very rare for a Black Bear to give birth to 5 bears at once.  It must be all that good clean living that The Finger Lakes has.  Even the bears are thriving!  If anyone else has heard about these bears in the Beaver Dams Area let me know. I would love to see more pictures of these baby bears and their Mom. 

Thank you
Tammy Leone
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