They appreciate my dear wife Karen

My dear wife Karen recently took a trip to Hot Springs, Ark., to see our niece Kimi wed her wonderful fiance Kevin. Though invited, I am still feeling reluctant to go through airports and flights and such what with COVID hanging about and even kicking back up in the fall months. I’m boosted, but don’t…

Now this would hold a Halloween plant

I’ll close the photo series of the visit of my dear wife Karen and I to Ontario Orchards with this image of a plant holder I saw as most definitely crafted for Halloween. Would you place a mum inside and place it on your front step to greet trick-or-treaters?

Out of your gourd?

My dear wife Karen and I spy at Ontario Orchards that not every October yield from a patch in our part of the world turns out to be a vibrant orange pumpkin perfect for Halloween. Pale gourds play their part, too.

For anybody who needs a good stalk

So this is how people get those great front lawn setups come October. And I thought maybe they had a good growing season out back … My dear wife Karen and I find so many things to look at and admire at Ontario Orchards on our traditional annual visit.

Garden guardians

One section in the Ontario Orchards back room was set aside for Raggedy Ann-like seasonal dolls. My mind went for how they’d keep the autumn birds away from fall plants. The Scarecrow’s cousins, right?

Pumpkins, warty and otherwise

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. You never know the size, color and some other aspects of the pumpkins you can spy at Ontario Orchards. I don’t recall the good folks at the Oswego farm stand putting out warty pumpkins in our visits years past. Nor have my dear wife Karen and I…

Ontario Orchard apples shine again

My dear wife Karen took the 30-mile-or-so traditional October drive to the northwest to visit what’s become our favorite local fall orchard farm stand. Ontario Orchards always provides us with fun sights and great produce to lug back home to Liverpool. )And, sure, I get a handful of photographs to fill a few days’ worth…

There go the bike riders!

The big pack of bike riders who passed me on my pre-work Onondaga Lake Park stroll were orderly and well-behaved. Most of them waved at me just before they passed. I most definitely left with the impression they were raising money for a cause, not racing against each other for the best time. Good day,…