Beaver Lake Nature Center

Here’s a great nature place to visit! This is a wonderfully wooded and wild place to go. It has a network of trails, all geared for exploring nature. We saw lots of wildlife and enjoyed our forest trail walk.

The Noisy New York Blue Jay

Since owning our own house and land, we love birds. My young son is a budding ornitholigist (and yes, he knows what that word means. Did you know that ornith is Greek for “bird”? Ornithology is the study of birds). Birds have been very helpful to our gardens, too. New York State has loads of [...]

Photo Hunters: Beautiful

This was so hard for me! Everything is beautiful, how could I possibly choose?! I’ll try my best, because I do like Photo Hunters so much. You can click on the links to see more photos about our travels to each of these places. Things that are colorful are beautiful. This is glassware from the [...]

UpTake for Family Vacation Info

I found another great travel resource for family travelers: UpTake. It used to be called Kango way back when. They changed their name, and looks like they are still in beta! The site looks really, really great. It also looks like they’ve expanded their territory to include places all over the United States. Excellent! Good [...]

FFQF: Hamilton the Federalist

The Founder’s quote for today is a real gem, by, not surprisingly, Alexander Hamilton. I’ll cut to the quick. “No legislative act contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this would be to affirm that the deputy (agent) is greater than his principal; that the servant is above the master; that the representatives [...]

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