What’s Up in the Neighborhood, March 5 2022

Sorry if this post is a little late today. I went to the Albany Patroons home opener last night, where they decimated the Massachusetts Monarchs 134-99 in a game that wasn’t even THAT close. Oh, it’s going to be an incredible season, you know it.

So with that in mind, let me get to my Saturday fun time. Here’s a wrap of this week’s blog action and photography shots from the great people on my personal blogroll.

• BLOGS FOR TASTE
  • Bill Dowd’s “Notes on Napkins,” “In Rensselaer County, seasonal spots beginning to blossom.“
  • The Burnt My Fingers blog, “Recipe: Ultimate Protein Smoothie.“
  • Jerry Papandrea’s “DerryX” YouTube channel, “Old-School Italian Sub BIGGER Than My Forearm.“
  • Jon in Albany’s blog, “Winter Pizza Challenge and a confession.“
• BLOGS FOR TRAVEL
  • The Saratoga Woods and Waterways blog, “Late-Winter Beauty.“
  • Silvia Lilly’s “DelSo” blog, “Seeing Rome as a middle aged woman.“
  • The Bedlam Farm Journal, “Coming Into the Silence. The Springs of Spiritual Life.“
• BLOGS FOR THE IMAGE
  • C.S. Young, Jr.’s fine art photo blog, “What the Eagle Saw, Pt. 1.“
  • Marc Beebe’s “Wandering Words,” “The Chickadee.“
  • Richard Broom Photography, “The Snooze.“
  • The Lonerist Photo Blog, “Color Film #17: Hexagon.“
  • The Resurrected Camera blog, “My mother’s camera: the Minolta XG-A.“
  • Tim Jeffers’ “Vintage Lens” blog, “Graffiti Bridge, Pensacola, Florida.“
• BLOGS FOR HISTORY
  • The “Doc Circe Died for Our Sins” Albany history blog, “Place Names of Albany and Rensselaer Counties, 1914.“
  • The St. Paul’s Church in Albany blog, “Grain, Once Scattered,” “‘O Thou the Central Orb.’“
  • G. Jack Urso’s “Aeolus 13 Umbra” blog, “Lone Wolves and Lost Boys.“
• BLOGS FOR THE SCREEN
  • The B&S About Movies blog, “Midwest Weirdfest: Woodland Grey (2021).“
• BLOGS FOR THE WORD
  • Grant Clauser in the Pine Hills Review, “Addendum to the Note on John Keats’ Grave Marker.“
  • Alexis Ryder’s “Stories I’ve Never Told,” “The Building.“
  • J. Eric Smith’s blog, “Words in the Distance.“
  • Lydia Rae Bush’s “Alphabet Ravine,” “Our Old Getaway.“
  • Richard Lakin’s blog, “Reasons to be Fearful (A Poem).“
  • Sara Flower Kjeldsen’s blog, “The Value of Free Books.“
• BLOGS FOR CONSCIENCE
  • Rob Madeo’s “Keyboard Krumbs,” “Heckle and Jeckle.“
  • Roger Green’s “Ramblin’ with Roger,” “Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine.“
  • Greg Thomas in the “Tune In to Leadership” blog, “Pro-Democracy, Anti-Autocracy.“
• BLOGS FOR LIFESTYLE
  • The 518 Bites and Sights blog, “Help Local Schools Get Money Directly.“
  • Jacob Gilbert’s “The Land of Whatever,” “Musical Interlude: Bring Back the Time (2022).“

Have a great weekend, everybody!