Saturday

It's 70 degrees and very foggy Down in the Hollow.

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The most important part of today's blog post is this:

NOTICE TO PHOTOGRAPHERS!

Hundreds of photographs - perhaps thousands - were taken early last week during the demolition of the Old Mill. Knowing that a great many of these will be very dramatic and interesting to the everyone who was not able to be on the scene and to other photographers as well, Jeff Reynolds, Director of the Waterville Public Library, invites photographers to display their best pictures of that event on the Hallway Gallery at the Library.

• Prints may be of any size.
• Black & White or color
• Photographer's identity - optional.

Bring your prints to the Library - along with thumbtacks! - and place them on the gallery space. (Tacks won't hurt that wall!)

If you have what appear to be wonderful shots but no way to print them, send me some JPEGS: I'll do what I can!

The display will probably be removed right after the Labor Day weekend.
You may retrieve your prints after that time.


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WKTV offers some photographs of storm clouds taken last evening North of Utica and this forecast for today and tomorrow:

• Saturday Morning: Hazy/Hot/Humid. Sunshine breaking through any fog. Temperatures well into the 80s by Noon.
• Saturday Afternoon: Showers and thunderstorms developing. A line of storms with strong, gusty winds and very heavy rainfall is possible by late afternoon across all of CNY. Prior to any storms, still hazy and humid with highs around 90.
• Saturday night: Showers and thunderstorms winding down. Decreasing humidity late. Low in the mid 60s.
• Sunday: Decreasing clouds and becoming pleasant. High: 79, Low: 54

The O-D has more information about proposed improvements to Route 12. Route 12 Options
•Adding two or three passing lanes to certain parts of Route 12. Lanes could cost $2 million a mile, and potential areas could include areas just south of New Hartford and just north of Waterville.
•Intersection improvements at the Route 20 interchange in Sangerfield.
•Adding a limited access by-pass in Sangerfield at the intersection of routes 20 and 12.

A second article, "Be Practical on Route 12 Improvement" offers analysis of need.

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It's a good sign!

I stopped at the Library to see how the Book Sale had been going:

it looks as if you're still in luck - if you get there before

NOON, TODAY!

These youngsters didn't seem to care how long their mother browsed through books at the sale!

And other youngsters didn't care if the platform was supposed to be a bandstand: they were having fun putting it to their own use!

I couldn't help but - once again - admire the overflow of petunias in the Watering Trough!

I wondered what it was like in Bouckville: worn-down pathways and disgruntled gulls.

North of Hamilton.

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Have a great weekend.
I'll be printing Mill shots, tomorrow.
Back on Monday!