What’s Up in the Neighborhood, August 31 2019

So here’s the deal.  Normally I wake up on a Saturday morning, go into my home office, and recap the blogs from my personal blogroll.  Then after I publish this wrapup blog post, I take care of the rest of my day.

Today, I’m doing things backwards.  I just drove back from a midnight photo shoot, so I’m writing the blog post – and then I’m going to bed.  Just because I’m out photographing in the wee hours doesn’t mean that I shirk my goal of sharing the best of the bloggers and photographers and writers from my personal blogroll each Saturday morning.

So let’s get started before I face-plant on my keyboard and drift off to Slumberland.

BLOGS FOR TASTE

• The Burnt My Fingers blog, “Hacking Trader Joe’s Cheese Bites.“
• The Saratoga Food Fanatic blog, “Amuse to Hit Broadway This Fall.“

BLOGS FOR HISTORY

• 98 Acres in Albany, “Framed for Friendliness (First Methodist and the Inner City Mission, Part 1).“
• The Albany history blog “Hoxsie!”, “Death and Debauchery.“
• The Friends of Albany’s Facebook page recounts when Martin Luther King Jr. visited Albany in 1961.

BLOGS FOR TRAVEL

• The Capital District Fun blog, “Pittsfield.“
• Laura Cardwell in the CivMix blog, “Go Fish!“
• The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “Fungi, Bugs and Blooms at Woods Hollow Nature Preserve.“
• Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Picturing Rock and Roll: Herb Ritts at the Fenimore Art Museum.“
• Joe Geronimo’s blog, “Picture Perfect Morning.“

BLOGS FOR THE WORD

• Meena Walia’s blog, “True Gems.“
• Heather Fazio in the “Girl Gone Smart” portal, “Girl Gone Reading: With a Closed Fist, Growing Up in Canada’s Toughest Neighbourhood.“
• Nicole Steinberg in the Pine Hills Review, “Lipstick on Your Vagina Is An Actual Thing Now.“
• Alexis Ryder’s “Stories I’ve Never Told,” “The Butterflies.“

BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE

• The Planet Albany blog, “The Dumbing Down of Public Education.“

BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE

• Erich Hertz and Daniel Nester’s “Album Oriented” blog, “Album Oriented 84: DJ Shadow and Portishead.“
• The Nippertown blog, “Focus on Creativity in UAlbany Fall Series.“
• Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger” blog, “Ibsen’s Ghosts, with Uma Thurman.“
• Cap’n Jack in the Two Buttons Deep portal, “Kirsten Gillibrand Could Have Been President if She Campaigned for America to Go Limitless Buttons Deep.“
• J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Lessons I’ve Learned from the Tour des Trees.“

BLOGS FOR IMAGE

• Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words” blog, “Why I Love My P610 – in Two Pictures.“
• Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens” blog, “Chasing Dreams.“
• The Lonerist Photo Blog, “Dom’s Donut.“
• The Mostly Monochrome blog, “Monkey.“
• The Resurrected Camera blog, “View from Rampart Range Rd.“

Have a great weekend, everybody … zzzzzzz…