The proprietor described the confusion about where to enter, squeezing between two silos, as akin to going to a speakeasy. Milk House Roastery is a simply that, a roastery where fresh brewed coffee is available on the weekends - along with a few local items, such as honey and granola, available in the pantry. Located in rural Onondaga Country, this is one of those places where you have to want to find.
Updated: 8 January 2026
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| Red-bellied Woodpecker |
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| Downey Woodpecker |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker |
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| 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.
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)
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| The trail beside the trail near Waterloo, NY |
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| Crossing over Kendig Creek at Mile 2 |
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| The bridge across Kendig Creek, which is technically closed, but still passable |
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| An abandoned car in the march area near Mile 0.5, near Waterloo |
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| 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. |
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.
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| A tree that has not made it through the winter |
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| Elverson Memorial Methodist A.M.E. Cemetery, located on Irish Hollow Gap Road |
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| 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.
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.
