last laundry drying today

(thrift store treasure)

loving having the lawn mowed again!


a moody weather day

I don't want these days to end

pretty views along Rt. 21 (Cohocton Rd.)

This feels like these last days of summer, trying to grab it while you can:


Reminds me of a particular store front here in Naples:


Edward Hopper's paintings are full of poignancy

It bugs me that this is an ad for Budweiser, but you know I can't help myself liking it:
(the city is Chicago)

London, current day

one advantage of living in a big city:
living in the midst of an art installation by 90 yr old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama

(photos by miscellaneous flickr contributors - click here to see more of this gorgeousity!)

Diesel in afternoon sun

spotted out the back of the barn:

I'm looking at you looking at me

Heaven

This is what I want Heaven to be like.
Isn't it appropriate the name of this road is Sunnyside Drive (in Middlesex)?

Rt. 245 again:

I don't know where or when this was taken, but I do know who that is: Grandpa Torpey

berry picking season

my Grandma & Grandpa Torpey picking raspberries from their garden in 1988 - Grandpa used to love peanuts sprinkled on his ice cream (and look how cool he is with his aviator-style sunglasses :)

Noooooooooo!

first signs of summer's end: yellow walnut leaves falling... :(

summertime living room:

94° in the shade

(polka dot experiment inspired by Limbolo)

How have we idealized & manipulated nature?

inspiring imagery from graphic artist Karl Grandin

Finger Lakes Chorale concert at the Constellation Performing Arts Center
music of the Beatles & Beach Boys -- everyone wore Hawaiian shirts

ice cream afterwards at the Muar House Cafe on the north end of Canandaigua Lake - fireworks too!

weekend chore

Laser Car Wash in Canandaigua

ladies in the lawn

fried zucchini with Joe & Zeus

fields of sunshine

one of the most beautiful stretches of road to drive in Ontario County: Rt 245, between Canandaigua & Middlesex