It rained like mad in the morning. An hour later it was snowing like mad. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. I processed two photos in black and white. It’s a monochrome world in winter. It’s not a lot… Read More ›
Blackstone Valley
THE CROWD BY THE FEEDER
After all my gratitude at the lack of snow this winter, of course it snowed this morning. We only got a few inches — maybe three? But not far away, they got half a foot and the week’s not over… Read More ›
WHEN WHEN WE HAD INDUSTRY
Living as we do in the valley where America birthed its own (100 years after they had done it all over Europe and England) industry, we can see what remains of the mills and factories that were formerly here. The… Read More ›
HEY WHAT’S HAPPENING?
My nemesis, Charter-Spectrum has decided we need to return the ancient dead modem we had. The only problem? The technician took it when he left. Why they want it is baffling. It’s more than a dozen years old and it… Read More ›
CHRISTMAS MEMORIES
For the past couple of years, COVID stole our season. This year, it’s a double whammy of not feeling well and inflation. The inflation isn’t based on anything real, mind you. The actual price of a barrel of oil hasn’t… Read More ›
UXBRIDGE BY NIGHT by GARRY ARMSTRONG
They haven’t put up the holiday lights yet. They usually do it at the beginning of December, so if it doesn’t snow too much, early next week the lights will go up. Hope everybody had a good holiday, no matter… Read More ›
AUTUMN’S OVER
Festival of Leaves 2022: Week #9 – Most of the Leaves Have Fallen Indeed they have fallen and all the trees are completely bare. It happened incredibly fast. Literally, overnight, we went from and incredible fall to naked trees and… Read More ›
SQUIRRELY WORLD
I took a bunch more squirrel pictures this morning. I love the red squirrel with the puffy gray tail. These guys are so incredibly furry and cute, especially that tiny red one. But this is also an exercise is the… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASON AT THE CLOSE OF THE HARVEST
The Changing Seasons, October 2022 Photography: Marilyn and Garry Armstrong It has been an exceptional month for photography. There is far too many pictures to picke even a selection. So. One photo from each area in which we took pictures. It… Read More ›
HARVEST’S END
THE HOLIDAYS WHICH CELEBRATED THE END OF THE HARVEST It froze last night marking the first night of frost for this year — and the official end of harvest. Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest as well as the… Read More ›
LATE GOLDEN OCTOBER DAYS
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #6: Late October Color in the Blackstone Valley All photographs: Garry Armstrong It may not be the absolutely last day of this beautiful autumn, but it’s getting close. I went to bring down the recycling bin… Read More ›
BEFORE THE SNOW FLIES
WQW #40: GETTING READY FOR THE COLD Around here, in the northeast, you have to plan for the cold. We always say “Need to get that done before the snow flies.” Given the erraticness of the weather, the snow could… Read More ›
FESTIVAL OF LEAVES – WEEK 5
Festival of Leaves 2022 Week #5: Deeper Reds Watching the maple in front of my window as it changes from green to hits of red and now, a deeper red with orange mixed into it becomes my personal miniature of… Read More ›
THE COLD IS COMING
It’s going to get cold here. Soon. Obviously, this being New England, we knew it was going to get cold. We just hoped it would hold off a couple of weeks before it happened. Longer if possible. Skipping winter would… Read More ›
THE PRETTIEST TINY RED SQUIRREL
Today was unique in that there was a big gray squirrel wrapped around one of the feeders. The big gray ones are big enough to do that. In the feeder next to that one was a tiny red squirrel —… Read More ›
OLD STONES IN AN OLD CEMETERY – PHOTOS BY GARRY ARMSTRONG
FOTD: Old stones with fall foliage – a Revolutionary War cemetery The cemetery is in the center of the town, across from the dam and just a hundred or so yards from the river itself. It’s up on a hill,… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 