August 9, 2022
What can I say about sunflowers I haven’t said before? A field of them is one of my special happy places. Their hearty smiles, en masse, feed me. This field in Pittsford, New York, just outside Rochester, required a bit of perseverance to locate. But when we did, I was Read more…
July 4, 2022
The Pines Resort in Fallsburg, New York suffered the same fate as other large resorts in the Borscht Belt in the Catskills. The advent of leisure air travel, a well connected interstate system of roads, and the repeated change of ownership has left the once 96-acres dilapidated. On a brief Read more…
October 21, 2017
It’s my birthday, so we went Up. Arriving at dawn Baskets Ready for some hot air Our chariot awaits Heat rises On our way Fire ball A smooth ascent Foliage Trees and basket High over the highway Balloons in the distance North Face advertisement Back on the ground, our balloon Read more…
October 4, 2016
Raising Statues to the Dead by Louis Daniel Brodsky From this grassy vantage where I sit, Watching students pass, in twos, threes And singly, through lilac and redbud hues, Like colors escaping a coruscating prism Or balloons lifting vertiginously, My shadow casts its stolid mass. The contrast between its static Read more…
October 16, 2015
Smudgy window pictures of peaking foliage look like paintings. The power, phone and cable lines bisect the beautiful scenery, designating layers. And the rolling Catskills, blotted with orange, carry the cloud’s shadow spots. I love autumn in the east, where the trees give up for the winter. But not before saying goodbye Read more…
October 15, 2010
I hate to bad-mouth an all-vegan establishment. Believe me when I say that I struggled with how to word this delicately, searched for the silver lining to the many clouds… but Ithaca’s Food For the Planet downright stunk. It pains me not to be supportive to a veg-friendly establishment, but I have Read more…