Photographs of many different subjects and associated notes and comments.
There’s a story here. John Boyd Thacher State Park is located in the Berne area of the Helderbergs, Albany County. If you live in the Capital Region, you know this park. It is a wonderful place. The bridge in the photo was built in the early 2000s as a solution …
In the previous posts I described the train I was building for holiday decor. This is it completed. You can see the Santa train to the left. This train is inspired by the electric ride-on railroad in the toy department of the Rhodes Department Store in Tacoma in the ’50s …
Well, not exactly the railroad! This is one of the passenger cars that I mentioned in my last post. It is partially painted with a little bit more to go. There’s a lot of pin-striping on this project. In the post from the other day I mentioned that these holiday …
Back in the 1950s and through the ’60s the great place to do in Tacoma, Washington was Rhodes Department Store. The big store downtown was a treasure chest of cool things. But, at Christmas time the coolest of the cool was up in the toy department. The Milwaukee Railroad sponsored, …
There’s nothing more refreshing that a nice walk in the autumn amongst the multi-colored leaves. Around here one of the best places to enjoy the outdoors is Tawasentha Park in Guilderland. The photo on the right is from a recent excursion to the park to see what was what on …
To many people, “New York” is that place along the coast that is covered in concrete and large buildings. The fact of the matter is that New York is a lot more than just “The City“. Residents outside of the metropolis categorize the state into three distinct regions. There’s Upstate, …
