Showing posts with label Ellison park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ellison park. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Blades Of Steel

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My wife showing off her skills she learned from the Ice Capades.


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A delightful Upstate New York winter day and Martin Luther King Day spent hiking and ice skating in Ellison Park


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I posed for ten minutes to get this hockey stop shot.  Don't let it fool you.  All I forgot to do was photoshop a spray of snow that looks like it came from a snowplow.


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Geez Louise is still at the office with a little bit of a winter cold.  Great cat and discovered how much fun it is to hit the "test print" button on the printer...


That's about it from the tundra of Rochester.  

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Apparently, the Only One In America Not To Feel the Earthquake

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PUPPY-MANIA!!!!


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The Old Rifle Range Trail in Ellison Park.  In 1933, it was a classy gun club that turned into a nice nature preserve in 1994


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The old gazebo overlooking the old, overgrown ranges


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Megan trying to see the old grounds.


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The wetlands between the Irondequoit creek and bay
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Kayak in the wetlands


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MEGAN!  


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ME!


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Crazy mushroom


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My new favorite lawn ornament; South Park-ish Uncle Sam


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These used cars were not available when I was shopping for a new car...


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The Summer Red Wings 


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Frontier Field


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It was military/fireman (or something like that) appreciation night.  Lots of uniforms!


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Rachel is the biggest baseball fan in the world!


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Saw this in Topps.  I like that the lemon finds itself sour.  


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THE FOSTER PUPPIES ARE HERE!  They had to come in to get their checkup with the vet and took over the office.  Poor Dock (the cat).


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Poor Dock getting whacked in the face with a tail


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The puppy riot was contained and brought back home.  


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Dock and Neville can return to normal levels of trouble.


BARKTOBER FEST 2011 is on September 24th in Egypt Park (next to Lollypop Farm) and I'm on The Dirty Dogs team.  So, please support me (and the homeless and abused animals of Lollypop Farm) by going to http://lollypop.kintera.org/ba​rktoberfest/mike to make a donation!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Summer Red Wings

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Who's that dog with Megan?  It's Barbie!  Who's Barbie?  Just another lap dog that loves Megan.  It must be a sign...


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Rachel and I ruining papa's driveway with chalk paint that doesn't come off with water even though it said it did.  Oh well...


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"Poopie."  Real nice work...


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Stella (aka Sasha to those at Lollypop Farm) enjoying all the other dogs at Ellison Park


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She's a bit big for a lap dog.


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Frontier Field, home of the Rochester Red Wings.  So, now I can have my "Winter Red Wings" hockey and my "Summer Red Wings" baseball.  


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Baseball glove horse sculpture.


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Why was I at a baseball game?  FREE TICKETS, FREE FOOD, FREE DRINKS! FREE BEER!  FREE STOMACH ACHE AFTER THE GAME!!!  So very worth it!


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If there's one thing I've learned about Rochester, it is that they love bounce houses!


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Tire race gets a little dangerous and almost takes out a third base coach


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The Legends of the Red Wings.  One is Cal Ripken, Jr. and I don't remember the other two.  And, I couldn't find it on their website.  So...


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HERE THEY COME AROUND THE BEND!


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OH NO!  NOW THEY ARE COMING AFTER US!


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Panoramic shot of Frontier Field.  Thanks to Dee for organizing this.  It was a good time and I expect to see the awesome new glasses at work soon.


I'm done.  Need to find a way to get out of the heat...

Monday, November 15, 2010

He Use To Be Just "Mike," But Now He's "Uncle Mike."

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Tachel had Veteran's Day off, but her parents did not.  So, Megan and I got to play with her all day long.


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What child doesn't like going to the public market?  


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Judging from the sunlight, this is Baby Jesus' Food Stand.  The sun was really bright.  So bright that I heard a few people complain throughout the day that it was too sunny.  I'll check in with them again in February


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Best deal in town and another reason to seriously preserve Monroe County's agricultural and open spaces.


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Every tooth you see in this picture is loose.  


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This photograph was commissioned by Tachel.  It was requested repeatedly that I take this image (no, not like that.  Get closer), so her dad can "see that there is purple food."  So, Rich there is purple food.


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Little legs get tired of walking and cold ankles need hand warmers...


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Going to town on a muffin at Union Bakery where we bumped into Erin.  This place was pretty awesome.  Affordable prices and just a barebones building.  Just my style.  


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CANSTRUCTION CHICAGO!  Sorry, I mean CANstruction Rochester?  Indeed!  As many of you know, Megan use to put this event on in Chicago and discovered they did it in Rochester as well.  So, we went down to the Bausch and Lomb Building to check it out.  As you can see, this is a birthday cupcake.  The flame is a bag of Flamin' Cheetos


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The Wizard of Oz


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Candle


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So, I took the previous pic and Tachel yelled out "WAIT!  I'M NOT IN IT!!!"  It was at this point I realized that I am officially the "artist" and she is the "muse."


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CANstruction site


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Tachel hanging out with the guy coming out of the manhole


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Downtown Rochester.  You see the Genesee River with the city skyline.  That's a semi truck crossing the bridge


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A sea turtle


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Tachel and the crashed UFO


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A Flour Mill that made early Rochester famous


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If there's anything Uncle Mike has, it's drawing supplies...


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"Aunt Meg, what do you eat if you don't have any food?"  After the taco and ziti incidents, we chose our battles and went to Burger King.  


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Ellison Park off Blossom Road.  You'll see a bit of this later on.


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On a bathroom run to a nearby gas station (because they locked the bathrooms at the park), I found disturbing candy made in the USA.  


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Uncle Mike using is art degree once again


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It was a fun day with Tachel.  Unfortunately, it really wore out Megan because she had two kids to take care off all day and only one gets to go home to her parents at the end of the day...


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Back at Ellison Park, which is just down the street from our apartment.  They have historic markers on everything around here.  This is for Indian Landing, "the most important place in the early history of Genesee Country."


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This is a 1938 replica of Schuyler's Trading Post/Fort.  The original was from 1721 built by the British Captain Peter Schuyler, Jr. to encourage trade with the Iroquois Native American tribe. 


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Stairs to nowhere in the park.  It's only a guess, but I think it's probably from a resort from the late 1800s, early 20th century that was taken over and turned into a park because church folk didn't like all the drinking and fun being had on Sundays.  That, or to a mansion Frank Ellison may have of had on the property or something.  Further investigation is needed...


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Out in the middle of nowhere were about 30+ dogs and their owners running, barking, swimming, and all.  It was pretty random.


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As I said previously, Megan's dad gave us tickets to the Detroit Lions (2-7) vs. the Buffalo Bills (1-8).  We had a couple of other tickets that we couldn't give away.  It was good to see the Bills win a game (the first time I've ever seen that happen live) and for the Lions to protect their 0-16 perfect season from being reached by another team...


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Bills holding QB tryouts for the 2011 season at their practice facility...


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Conklin's Tailgating Bar and Grill


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 Megan with the family before the game


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Heading into Ralph Wilson Stadium


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These teams were so terrible that I yelled at both of them.  They are infuriating.  The dumb penalties.  The absolute lack of defense.  Poor call playing.  Timeouts at the most ridiculous times.  At moments, it was like each team was trying to lose on purpose.  Loser Bowl 2010 was everything I expected it to be!!!

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