Ice Storm

Whew... It's been a crazy couple of days... lost power Friday around 2:30 am and got it back Saturday around noon... Here are some photos:

Ice Storm, December 2008

Twilight

Today's Shutter Sisters challenge is twilight... I offer these...

Girls' Birthday Trip!

Where'd we go? Why to the Baseball Hall of Fame, of course! Click on the image to see more!

Cooperstown

New Photo Albums Up

Photo Project - Will be Updated:

Playing with Blogger

Trying to figure out how to use Picasa to link to my Web albums for all to see...

Looks like we'll do the link to the public albums on the side - took the slideshow down - it's now "My Favorite Shots"...

Felix

My great-grandfather is being honored by NYS in October for being a fallen firefighter. In 1945, the steamer he was on was hit by a train on the way to a call - ironically, it was the same railroad company that he worked for full-time. My grandmother was 15 when he died and had 2 younger brothers - Felix (10) and Charlie, my uncle who passed away a few weeks ago, was 5. It's quite interesting how people respond to tragedy differently at different ages - my grandmother, who had to grow up too quickly and take care of her grieving mother and younger brothers, never wanted anything to do with the fire company again. My Uncle Charles saw his father as a hero and spent his whole life in service to different fire departments and fire police. When Charlie died, he got his own hero send-off from the FD - it was beautiful.

Anyway, since Charlie died, I've been in charge of getting the bio and the photo done for the book that the state is doing. Here are photos of my great-grandfather Felix: