Last week, while out on a photo trip, I stopped by a roadside pumpkin patch and purchased some pumpkins. One for me, one for my girlfriend, one for my girlfriend’s mother. Because I’m that kind of guy. I put the pumpkins in the back trunk of my 2017 Chevrolet Volt Premier (“Lightning’s Girl”), and drove…
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Planting Peaches with my girlfriend over the weekend
A week ago, I purchased a blooming cornflower plant from a roadside orchard. Not wanting to damage my car’s leather seats (and my car’s trunk was already filled with my New York State Fair artwork and pickups), I placed the plant in a cardboard peach box. Yep, the plant rode shotgun in a peach box.…
Read MoreGirlfriend, meet Peaches. Peaches, meet girlfriend.
Yesterday, I drove to Syracuse to pick up my artworks and photos from the New York Stater Fair. The weather wasn’t fantastic – it felt like I drove through one rainstorm and came back through another. On my way home, somewhere around Exit 33, one of my car’s TPMS sensors reported low air. Oh, that’s…
Read MoreThose rocks are NOT from my head.
My girlfriend has made some major upgrades and restorations to her backyard. What was once a collection of overgrown paver stones that were originally part of her home is now a fully replaced and beautiful concrete pathway. But there’s one portion – a triangular patch between the deck and the back of the house –…
Read MoreCaption time: Three American Goldfinches
I was at my girlfriend’s house over the weekend. She has a couple of bird feeders in the backyard, and I’ve found that her songbirds absolutely love this super-hot birdseed that’s mixed with hot chili sauce. The birds have no salivary glands, so they just eat the seed like it’s a normal day. But the…
Read MoreWhere are all the bingo chips??
Last week, my girlfriend and I went out for a meal-and-movie date. Lunch at the 99 at Rotterdam Square Mall, followed by a showing of A Quiet Place: Day One. As we left the restaurant, we noticed that the mall anchor that once housed a K Mart now exists as a bingo hall. And you…
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I had a great time with the girlfriend over the weekend. We watched that Julia Louis-Dreyfus film You Hurt My Feelings (honestly, I think I’m becoming a big fan of A24 films), we purchased some bird feeders at the Delmar backyard bird store Wildbird Junction, and we had a very enjoyable time together. After all…
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FINALLY getting my Pentacon Six to play nice.
Several months ago, one of my readers was kind enough to provide me with two cameras and a lot of medium-format film. I’ve already had plenty of success with one of the cameras, my Nikon F2S (“Nikon Athena”), but the second camera – a medium-format Pentacon Six SLR that I haven’t nicknamed yet – has…
Read MoreHow to please a cardinal and piss off a squirrel.
There are many occasions where I help out the girlfriend in terms of gardening and other aesthetic horticulture. For example, she loves watching the local songbirds as they visit her feeder and chomp down on the tasty bird seeds. But she’s not a fan of the squirrels who try to get their hands on the…
Read MoreBachelor Gift Wrapping
So here’s the deal. When Christmas comes, I need to bring gift-wrapped packages to that special someone. But, as you know, I am a bachelor. And bachelors do, well, let’s say, bachelor things. And that includes the fine art of wrapping Christmas presents. See, in the past, my tactic for wrapping gifts was this. Take…
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