Monday

It's 45.9 degrees; clear.

Garbage Day!

It's also Patriots Day - an annual celebration
(especially in Massachusetts) of the events
retold in this Longfellow poem that so many of us
had to learn, long ago, in school.

"Listen my children and you shall hear
of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.

My husband was born in Danvers, Massachusetts.
Some of you - along with his sister's family and
our daughter - might enjoy this:
That morning in Danvers.

Many years ago, it was either the late Hilda Barton or Mrs. Pomeroy or "Pete" Peterson who told me that one of the early settlers in Sangerfield had belonged to the Lexington Minutemen. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name: can any blog-reader help? I've added a list of Revolutionary War Veterans at the bottom of this post.

*******************

Meanwhile, back in Waterville ............


On West Bacon Street.


The DPW was busy on Friday. They've cleaned heaps of winter gravel from the pavers along Main Street and Sanger Avenue; swept the roads several times, and rolled the lawn in the Park.

(Stopped for speeding? or no license plate?
Probably just because it was a nice day!)

I don't know when Tom put this sign up, but it's been there for several days and can stay there for a few more!


Yesterday!

(Blurry: but you get the idea!)

From WKTV: "High pressure will be in firm control of our weather for the next few days, meaning ample sunshine and warm conditions. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The next chance of rain will be with a cold front that will move through late on Wednesday giving us some showers or storms. After that, cooler but sunny weather to follow on Thursday with temperatures continuing to average 5-10 degrees above normal in the upper 60s. We warm up one more time into the 70s on Friday, and then it looks like the nice weather will finally come to an end next weekend.
With all this nice weather, dry conditions will continue to develop across Central New York. Brush fires become a greater danger with dry, breezy conditions. It's advised not to burn leaves under these conditions."

***************

In my yard, the Pulmonaria - or "Lungwort" - is blooming .....
a least a week earlier than usual .....

............. and "Bloodroot" is open, as well.

I went searching, yesterday, for some signs of heron nests atop trees in hilly hardwoods but found nothing except for this - right in the center of the picture - which is probably an osprey nest (could be eagle) in an old tree standing in a beaver pond on Beaver Creek Road.

Several times on my ride, flashes of yellow caught my eye ------ clumps of daffodils blooming in the woods on State Land where once a house had stood.

*********************

E. Fuller Torrey, author of "Frontier Justice. The Rise and Fall of the Loomis Gang," has written an article for the New York Archives quarterly publication for release later this year. I'm adding some graphics and have been having fun "playing" with scans of old "tintypes" owned by the Waterville Historical Society. The images are really so dark and have so many scratches that they're difficult to see, and although writings always refer to George Washington Loomis, Jr. ("Wash") as being handsome, proof was hard to come by ................. 'til now! Just click on the image!

*****************

Have a really great day!

***********

Revolutionary War Veterans

Terrytown Cemetery
Samuel Cowles
James Green
Zeno Terry
Abian Colcon
Roswell Chapin

Waterville Cemetery
Jabez Hancock
Benjamin Swetland
Lebeus Geer
Joseph Munger
Ichabod Stafford
Joseph Munger 2nd
Lieut. John Trask

Stockwell Cemetery
Jedediah Peck
Benjamin Stetson
Joseph Conger

Sangerfield Cemetery
Capt. Amasa Newberry
John Duncan
Lemnel Wells
Lieut. Benjamin Knowlton
Thomas King
James Mills
Stephen Edgerton
Justin (?) Hale
Oliver Norton
Joseph Williams