Our Twin House
For an area that is suburban at best — I think of it mostly as living in the country — the county has a wonderful town historian. She maintains an excellent website entitled Penn Yan & how it got that way.
On the website, the historian has many homes and other buildings mapped with [...]
Miss Alice Griggs died 30 September 1954 and willed her 17 room house at 324 Main Street to the Penn Yan library. Evidently it had served as needed classroom space for the elementary school and was known as the Penn Yan Civic Center since February of 1955. On 19 July 1956 the Board of the Civic Center [...]
It is Thursday now and we sit here without a sales contract in the old house.
There is a list of seven issues mentioned by the buyers, most of which have been addressed. One is still pending. The first issue came as a total surprise to us. The home inspector they hired found a three-inch spot of what [...]
at a hangout in my hood with the sun dropping below my knees and spring just days away…
©Llewellyn Lafford@Zapix
Originally uploaded by LlewellynL
On a back road west of Geneva, chasing the setting sun toward Penn Yan, Laurel and I spotted this cat snoozing in the high window of a stone barn. Still warm in the fresh shadows, he appeared intent on completing his nap and remained supremely unintimidated by my approach and mumbles and clickings.
Originally uploaded by LlewellynL
–Ah, Nature!
–A gently meandering stream, its glassy surface reflects the verdant boughs and cirrus wisps of a late summer afternoon.
–Within its cool bosom: flitting minnows, marine ferns, mossy rocks, lily pads, semi-drowned shopping cart.
