Welcome to Buffalo

I made it!

I'm nesting, connecting, etc. Trying to.

Some snapshots from the first few days.



Tofurkey welcome dinner! Thanks, Lynne and Brendan.



Rebecca and her roommate, Jeanna.



Rebecca in her room with a visiting youngster.



The new room. (Or, at least, one corner of it.)

Postcard

I've made several posts in the past archiving some of the letters and postcards that turn up in my purchases from used bookstores. I found a nice postcard while in Buffalo a few weeks ago. Unlike some of my past finds, this seems to be a less dated artifact (sometime between 1996 and 2000, judging from the 26-pence postcard stamp).

Note the imprinted "K2" and the fainter "00" on the front image.

The circled, upside-down text in pencil reads "ATTRACTION TO THe ePHemeral." Maybe it's a coded message of some sort?



Dear Jo,

What a great vacation. Golf at the finest course in Ireland; great friends in Scotland; Waterford glass factory; sitting outside B & B's just watching the clouds roll by, and eating lots of great food. We did a little searching for our roots but couldn't find too much. You'll get this after I return—but I thought the scene would remind you a little of the Wild West.

See you soon!

Dan

Plaster Creek Spring Clean-Up

West Michigan Environmental Action Council and Plaster Creek Watershed Working Group are teaming up on May 15 to cloak different parts of the creek with some much-needed care and attention.

Join a group of us for a fun afternoon in Marquette Park along an urban/mixed-industrial portion of the creek. There will be relaxed portions near the park as well as some tricky sections that the more sprightly among us can tackle with hip boots and maybe even waders!

We'll pick up trash and get to know a bit of the creek in all it's spring energy. The afternoon will end with a modest feast of tacos from a nearby local restaurant.

See below for a map of the area we'll be visiting, or check out some pictures from the clean-up last fall: http://tatteredatlas.blogspot.com/2009/11/plaster-creek-clean-up-photos.html



There are two options for meeting up with the group:

1) Meet at my house (352 College Ave SE) at 2:30 and carpool to the site.

2) Meet at Kimball Stadium of Marquette park at 3:00:

1352 Nagel Ave SW
Wyoming, MI 49509
[see Google map]

Email me at rweberling[at]gmail.com if you have any questions or suggestions. Hope to see you here or there!