“You don’t take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.”
-Author Unknown
The view from my hotel room at my daughters hockey tournament.
A crisp, cold winter day in Glens Falls, NY.
Glens Falls, NY (a hockey weekend)
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The Queennsbury Hotel. An elegant old hotel in Glens Falls, NY, it has a reputation of being haunted.
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The empty benches waiting for the game to begin.
Ambience (1)
Room 337…
“Come out, come out, wherever you are.”
-Jack Torrance
I am in Glens Falls, NY enjoying the weekend at my daughters hockey tournament. For the past few year we have braved the cold and the elements to journey three hours north for some hockey excitement! Usually we stay at the Marriot, which is about 15 minutes from both of the rinks, but this year they decided to stay closer to the rinks to cut down on driving time. So here we are at the Queensbury Hotel.
I am trying to remain positive, but as soon as I walked in the entrance my first thought was, “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” I thought I was at the Overlook, the hotel from the movie The Shining. If twin girls had walked around the corner, I’m pretty sure I would have dropped dead right there. That’s right, word has it that this hotel is haunted. And here we are on Friday the 13th with a full moon in a haunted hotel. Luckily, we didn’t get stuck in room 237. Instead, we are in room 337. You can’t make this stuff up! Anyway, I thought that I would share some photos of the hotel with you.
Not room 237 but close enough to freak me out, (a little).
Can’t you picture little Danny riding his big wheel down the hall??
A One Of A Kind Ice Rink
“I call architecture frozen music.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Most of the ice rinks that you see these days are mainly large industrial building that lack any type of architectual savvy. Over the fifteen years that I have traveling to rinks in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts, not many have the complexity that the Jackson Rink at the Westminster school in Simsbury, CT has. This is without a doubt the nicest (and coldest) rink that I have seen either of my children play in. A truly beautiful building. Check out the photos of the interior of the rink.
January Snow…
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder.”
-Susan Orlean
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
— George R.R. Martin
Our dog Jase’s favorite soccer ball.
A snowy day waiting for my daughters hockey game to start in South Kent, CT.
Snow falling.
South Kent, CT.
A Rare Rainbow in January
If you look closely just to the left of the telephone pole on the right, you can see a rare January rainbow. I apologize for the bad cell phone photo but I didn’t have my other camera!!!
Good morning 2017!!!
“New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. Only dreams give birth to change.”
-Sarah Ban Breathnach
The sun coming up over the hill behind my house on a beautiful New Year’s Day.
Lake Mahopac in B & W
“Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.”
-Robert Frank
The Zen Hiker 