A Legacy of Music

A Legacy of Music

Photochallenge.org week 17’s theme is music.  Some of my earliest memories of music are of my father playing his harmonica in the evening after the farm chores were finished.  In later years, when he lived in a nursing home, he played every day for the other...
Spring Planting on an Amish Farm

Spring Planting on an Amish Farm

It’s spring, and the farmers are beginning the planting process.  Many of the farms in our area were shutting down.  Family farms where the kids are going off to college, then getting jobs other than farming, so when the owners retired, the farm just shut down....
NYSW Railroad

NYSW Railroad

Driving home today on Route 8, passing along beside the NYS&W tracks, I was just thinking I hadn’t seen any traffic there in months. No sooner had the thought crossed my mind then I saw an engine north bound with a couple of cars in tow. Coincidentally the...
Old Barn in Black and White

Old Barn in Black and White

 I went out driving today looking for something old, rusty, and abandoned.  The Photochallenge.org theme this week (week 10) is black and white.  This is a good time of year for Monochrome photos in the Northeastern US.  The snow is leaving, but the trees don’t...
Downtown Cooperstown at Night

Downtown Cooperstown at Night

On a rainy winter evening, you can actually see the street and the buildings on Main Street in Cooperstown.  In another one to two months, it will be hard to get photos with this little traffic in them.  The village of Cooperstown has many old and interesting...
Doubleday Field at night

Doubleday Field at night

Doubleday Field, Cooperstown NY.  Where baseball is played in the Home of Baseball.  Spring training is starting farther south.  In Upstate NY, the fields, stadiums, and parks where the sport is played still have snow covering the base paths.  Waiting for warmer...