A few weeks ago I was awakened before dawn by screaming smoke detectors. Like literally, they are the photoelectric kind that emit screeching beeps with a voice intoning “FireFireFire” in a way that makes you both want to run the hell away and take a baseball bat to them as you leave. They do the trick: no way are you going to sleep through….
Archives for July 2016
les collines at the buck moon
We are at full tilt of high season now, in the midst of a really gorgeous summer. The weather, spectacular, just enough hot and humid to make it real; a bit on the dry side but we’re good with it….
peace bridge
Traveling across New York State to Toronto last weekend brought me to the Peace Bridge, one of three spanning the Niagara and up river from the Falls….