(Sorry that I'm late posting, this morning, but I had heaps of E-mail and a couple of very nice phone calls that I didn't want to cut short!)
It's 28 degrees and there's frost on the lawn but, at least there's a LAWN, and the sun is shining!!
WKTV's forecast is bright and shiney:
WKTV's forecast is bright and shiney:
Friday: Sunny and very pleasant. High 67
Friday Night: Clear and cool. Low 35
Saturday: Mostly sunny and warm. High 70 Low 39
Sunday: Mostly sunny and warm. High 70 Low 45
Monday: Partly sunny and warm with afternoon showers and thunderstorms. High 71 Low 45
Tuesday: Partly sunny. High 59 Low 44
Wednesday: Partly sunny with showers. High 53 Low 35
Thursday: Partly sunny. High 50
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Morgan's Hardware has their whole Spring/Summer display out: yard decorations, a bench, barbeque, bags of peat moss, etc. What a nice sight!
The temperature reached the mid-sixties, yesterday, and as the last of the snowmen grew shorter and shorter, so did sleeve and pants-legs!
"Lake Hanover" is still quite high, but I swung by the Barker Brook Golf Course in Oriskany Falls and didn't see any water hazards that even came close to this.
I don't know where the event will take place, but Mrs. Newsom told me, yesterday, that the Lions Club is 100% SURE that their Annual Golf Tournament WILL take place as usual - on the third weekend in July!
This is a really poor "screensnap" of Albert Bierstadt's huge and magnificent painting, "Discovery of the Hudson," which he painted in a little studio here in Waterville in the Fall of 1874. He was married to Rosalie Osborn, grandaughter of early settler Amos Osborn.
My reason for mentioning this at all is that the WCS Student Council left either late last night or very early this morning for a trip to Washington D.C. where they will, no doubt, tour the Capitol Building. That's where "Discovery of the Hudson" hangs - right in the huge rotunda! - along with a second Bierstadt painting which may also have been painted while he was in town.
Deb Mayne just sent me this: "If the face on the Faxton-St. Lukes Healthcare billboards and TV ads look familiar, it should! It is none other than Dan Acker, his wife Debra and daughter Ava. The billboards can be seen by the Scheidelmans warehouse (southbound lane) on the North-South arterial, and on Rt 12B between Clinton and New Hartford by the Milk Stop mini-mart. The ad can also be seen on the Faxton-St.Lukes home page."
And, after seeing yesterday's photo of the stone steps leading from the Tower/Harding residence down the hillside toward Big Creek, Sandy Harding wrote: "Now if I can get a shot of the stone work that is behind the houses up the street from you the stone work must be left overs from the mill pond.
Some of the stones have shifted & my Dad has cleared some of the brush so the Granddaughter & I could climb up and down."
The stonework that she refers to is part of the dam - probably built around 1806. I did a drawing of the grand stonework about twenty years ago, and it's in the Barton Room at Municipal Hall. Perhaps, when the water warms up a little, I can send someone up the creek with a camera to take a picture of the stonework, now.
The steps might also be referred to in a paper written some time ago by Hobie Morris called, "Charlemagne Tower at Harvard" in which he cites a letter written by Charlemagne to a younger sister warning her to "be careful when you go down to the garden."
