Finger Lakes Scrapbook

Mark,

I continue to click away, having lots of fun with my digital. Sending you one I took on January 9, the day of the big wind storm. I always liked this one because in addition to the crashing waves etc., it also has the leftover base from the Roseland Sky Ride (I believe that is what they called it). This was at about 8:45 that morning. Not the kind of tranquil lake shots we usually see.

Take care
Mike Sargent

I was driving over to the canal for some fall shots and decided to take the back roads. I came across the open house for the Spirit Wind Farm.

I thought I'd check out the Alpacas. It amazed me how
they were similar, socially, to people. There was a
greeter, some teen agers rough housing around, some
babies, and a couple shy guys. As I took one last
shot, the Alpaca who greeted me seemed to smile and
say, "Y'all come back now, 'Ya hear!"

Peace,
Mike Mulberry

Mark,

This picture is digital proof that the rainbow does, indeed, end on Keuka Lake. It was taken from our cottage on Crosby Point late last September during one of the few rainy weekend days of 2006.

We are so thankful that we did not succumb to the weather forecast and stay home. Even rainy days on the Finger Lakes are spectacular.

I saved this picture as the “Wallpaper” on my computer. It’s what gets my wife and me through the not-so-pleasant winters in NYS - until the next unbelievable summer on Keuka Lake.

Thanks,
Ernie Walker
Penn Yan, NY

Happy Labor Day! I went to the New York State Festival of Balloons in Dansville, yesterday. It was my first time there. If you get a chance to go next year, take it! It was really awesome. I like the bottom photo because you can really see the flames shooting up from the burner in the basket.

Here's their web site www.nysfob.com

Peace,
Mike Mulberry

The top photo is of my friend Anne Lambert who was kind enough to loan me her kayak and enjoy the day with her.

The bottom photo is me in a kayak at the south end of Canandaigua Lake in the shallows.

We also climbed to the top of Bristol Mountain that day.

Linda Slade

The Wheat Harvest Festival in King Ferry.

Best Regards,
Lori Radcliff-Woods

Got a new macro lens and went to the Erie Canal path
between Newark and Palmyra today to try it out.
Here's a couple test shots.

It's a telephoto macro, (150mm), which means I can be 20 feet from a butterfly and get a "close up" shot without disturbing him!

This will be especially nice next spring when I'm
shooting Audrey Ferris' crocus with all the bees!

Peace,
Mike Mulberry

As I enjoy your magazine so much, I really wanted to share with you and perhaps your readers this photo I took of my home in Corning on Memorial Day.

Thank you,
Tom Dimitroff

Hi Mark. I took this photo in a plane as we were flying out of Ithaca - it is of Cayuga Lake. It took my breath away. I am so enjoying the magazine and sent it as gifts for my in-laws.

Take care,
Carol Hoffman

I took this photo of a Great Herron with a Pike at our home on
Seneca Lake. The bird had just captured the fish and was on our neighbor's dock trying to decide what to do with it. After some time, the bird re-entered the water with the fish, dunked it into the water and then successfully swallowed the fish.

Photo by Annette Preston,
Geneva

My family and I saw this view while on an outing on Mother's Day. The dandelions were brilliant that day off of Town LIne Road near Rushville.

Photo by Mark Stash

This field is near Clifton Springs and the turkeys have lived in the adjacent woods for at least three years.

Photo by Dave Spier

A great and snowy day skiing and snowboarding at Bristol Mountain.

Photo by Mark Stash

A swan and Canada goose sharing the same pond.

Photo by Belinda McElroy
Maxwell Creek Inn B&B

This photo was taken in the fall of 2006. It's at the top of the hill near the Hunt Hollow Ski Lodge in the Honeoye and Naples area. It shows my husband Marty Slade and his horse (left) Bar-Hop Cody
and my horse (right) A Sunny Delight. Honeoye Lake is seen in the distance.

Photo by Linda Slade

Sunflower outside of McGregors Vineyard on Keuka Lake.

Left to right: Rosalie Dye, Sue Sanza and Jan Stanton.

Photo by Linda Slade

This is an image captured late on December 14 (between 11pm - midnight) over the skies of Greece from the Lake Ontario State Parkway. The Aurora Borealis started out as a pale green hue visible above a breaking cloud cover in the northwest. It ultimately transformed itself into the classic looking pillars of light in the night sky. There's nothing like seeing such an amazing show (at no charge) in person!

Tim Hack,
Rochester

I was walking along the canal
in Palmyra a few weeks
ago and spotted the cardinal
and wood duck.

Michael Mulberry
Williamson

I took this picture
of Cayuga Lake from
Burroughs Point looking South.

Charlie Bang
Seneca Falls

Beautiful Keuka Lake
on a July morning.
The photo was taken
just south of the water
plant near Penn Yan.

Tom Carroll
Rochester

I took this photo on Canandaigua Lake this past summer. When I saw a group of neighborhood boys take off with their homemade raft, I just had to run home and get my camera. I thought the Tom Sawyer/motor boat contrast was especially interesting.

Jeanne Guastaferro
Canandaigua

Here is a photograph I took of Keuka Lake. My wife and son and I were on a boat when a bad storm came through. As the storm lifted, I shot this photo looking south toward Depot Park in Hammondsport.

We really enjoy your magazine. We live in New Jersey, but have a house in Hammondsport and spent many weeks out of the year there.

Marty Katz
Princeton Junction, New Jersey

We had a busy bird
feeder this last winter!

Cindy Robinson