Author: xlab0

Sunset in Germantown

Dinner with neighbors at their home in Germantown, NY, prompted these photos.  The Catskills are in the background, the Hudson River in the middle ground and an Amtrak right of way in the foreground across the tidal pond.

Glimmerglass 2013

Glenda and I went to Glimmerglass, in Cooperstown, NY Aug. 19-20 for excellent performances of Verdi’s early opera King for a Day and Wagner’s Flying Dutchman. Delightful weather, a good dinner at Alex & Ika, and an overnight at The Cooper Inn.

Robins Sunning Their Wings

Glenda has discovered a place in the middle of a ring of rose bushes here the robins regularly come to “sun bathe.”  They spread their wings for a bit, then seem to shake them out in sections.  (Unfortunately I wasn’t expecting this so didn’t have […]

Albert Graduates!

Grandson Albert Garcia graduated from Sunnyland High in Mission, TX, last month.  We didn’t attend–Albert and his mother and sister visited us in New York instead–but Eliza, his mother, sent this photograph.  The ribbons and badges are honors.  Albert graduated third in his class of […]

Invasion of the Cicadas!

fter 17 years in the ground, the Cicadas are emerging for their six-week mating and reproduction period.  There eerie sound can be heard all around as the infestation moves slowly northward. Here’s what they look like.  For more photos, click here.