Kisacafé (Dagsboro DE)

 

Henlopen City Oyster House

 

A Cigar City Brewing's Florida Man IPA 

Biblion Books (Lewes, DE)

 

Always beautiful windows at Biblion, this one is from December 2025

Walking in Skaneateles Conservation Area

 

Broccoli Gomae

 

Broccoli Gomae served at Hidden Fish

While having dinner at Hidden Fish, in Skaneateles, we were taken by one of the appetizers: broccoli gomae. We decided that it would be a good dish to replicate.

Funky Rooster (Key West, FL)

 

Paul McCartney in Pittsburgh

Paul McCartney Setlist – 11 November 2025 (PPG Paints Area, Pittsburgh, PA)

 

Setlist

1.      Help! (The Beatles)

2.     Coming Up

3.     Got to Get You Into My Life (The Beatles)

4.   Drive My Car (The Beatles)

5.   Letting Go (Wings)

6.   Come On to Me

7.   Let Me Roll It (Wings)

8.   Getting Better (The Beatles)

9.   Let ‘Em In (Wings)

10My Valentine

11Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five (Wings)

12Maybe I’m Amazed

13I’ve Just Seen a Face (The Beatles)

14In Spite of All the Danger (The Quarrymen)

15Love Me Do (The Beatles)

16Dance Tonight

17Blackbird (The Beatles)

18Here Today

19Now and Then (The Beatles)

20Lady Madonna (The Beatles)

21Jet (Wings)

22Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles)

23Something (The Beatles)

24Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (The Beatles)

25Band on the Run (Wings)

26Get Back (The Beatles)

27Let It Be (The Beatles)

28Live and Let Die (Wings)

29Hey Jude (The Beatles)

Encore

30I’ve Got a Feeling (The Beatles)

31Sgt. Pepper’s Lover Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (The Beatles)

32Helter Skelter (The Beatles)

33Golden Slumbers (The Beatles)

34Carry That Weight (The Beatles)

35The End (The Beatles)

 

Cayuga-Seneca Canalway Trail 2025

 

The trail beside the trail near Waterloo, NY

Crossing over Kendig Creek at Mile 2

The bridge across Kendig Creek, which is technically closed, but still passable 

An abandoned car in the march area near Mile 0.5, near Waterloo

A make-shift shelter near Waterloo that appears to have been inhabited recently. 

15 August 2025

Walked the trail from Mile 0 (Waterloo) to Mile 2 (the bridge at Kendig Creek). Among other things, I saw goldfinches and an otter. 

Word: Recrudescence

Early in 2025, a meme was going around for the 17th-century word, recrudescence, which was purported to mean “the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.” In the 1660s and 1670s, it was used to describe the reemergence of symptoms or of a disease in patients. While that can be one definition, and that is frequently used, it can also mean the return of something good as well. For example, it can be used as the revitalization or renaissance of something as well.

Kings Gap Chronicles: 1 Feb 2025

A tree that has not made it through the winter

 

Elverson Memorial Methodist A.M.E. Cemetery, located on Irish Hollow Gap Road

CVRT Chronicles 2025-01-17

 

Yellow-bellied sapsucker

Going for a walk in the afternoon and I heard an unfamiliar bird call. I opened my birding app and grabbed my camera off the backseat. The app identified a yellow-bellied sapsucker, a bird that I had never identified along the CVRT. Its call, repeated and loud, sounded like a lonely soul desperately searching for others. Scanning the nearby trees at the intersection of Clouse and Ott Roads, the sapsucker was working the high branches of the trees between the trail and the road. Intermittently, two red-bellied woodpeckers took turns trying to drive the sapsucker away. I stayed and watched for a few minutes, taking a few photographs as it furtively moved between branches. My timing was fortuitous, I wandered away for five minutes so as not to spook the bird too much. When I returned no birds, sapsuckers or woodpeckers, remained.  

Backyard Chronicles 2025-01-17

 

One of the most beautiful sights in winter is to see a male northern cardinal set against the snow and gray days. Often these birds are gregarious, populating our birdfeeders and sitting in trees seemingly waiting for the spring. Some people believe that cardinals are signs from the next life that someone is thinking and watching over you. It was the inspiration of Kasey Musgraves’s song “Cardinal” after the passing of her friend and mentor John Prine. Amid the gloom of deep winter, one can understand how people can come to that conclusion.

CVRT Chronicles 2025-01-12

 

After two snows and cold, windy conditions, two felines from the cat colony cuddled together on a bare spot next to a tree. I often come home after walking this part of the trail and remind my cats how lucky they are.

Cats of San Juan

I was walking around the Paseo del Morro, the shoreline walking path around the National Park that contains San Juan’s famous castle, when I stopped to take a photo of one of the resident cats. A man who was carrying a grass trimmer jokingly commented as he walked by, “All they do is lay around like they own the place!” Perhaps they do, I replied.

The cats have long been a fixture in Old San Juan, but last summer the National Park Service announced that the cats would be removed from the park, arguing that it did not meet visitors’ expectations or the purpose of the park. Yet, most people view the cats as part of the landscape and charm of the city. Many residents believe that the cats are being forced out just as locals have been from the old city to make way for wealthy investors from elsewhere. 

This guy was really tired and did not mind me sitting next to him. 

Calle de Hospital

This chicken and cat appeared to walk away as tourists started flooding the square. 

For the most part, the cats interact well with tourists.