Family portrait….

Julie made a wonderful side dish of asparagus, carrots, and roasted pinenuts. It was really delicious.

PLEASE NOTE! Our oldest daughter Kara, who works in city schools, is putting on a fundraiser with the help of our store. On next Tuesday, April 29th, we will be selling soup for $10 and the money will go towards sending kids to a fresh air experience which no longer seems to be funded by the school. Consequently,  the teachers are taking it on themselves to pay for this. Please share this and help out in any way you can.

Grandson Rocco and I discuss our plans for a fishing trip this summer

My son, Jay and his wife Taylor have been taking their picture at the George Eastman House on Easter over the past 12 years. This is the current version.

Gavin Rice spent Friday night in Penn Yan. We had a great Friday fish fry dinner at the Liberty Restaurant and talked banjo all night long. This young man will be graduating soon from the Eastman School of Music.  When he heads out on his own I am sure he will be a forced to reckon within the musical world. I foresee great promise for him to be doing the absolute best that can be done with banjo in ALL of its incantations. He is perhaps the most up-and-coming young player the instrument has seen in many, many years and his career can possibly take the instrument to "new heights". Here he is showing off his "graduation present" from Bernunzio Uptown Music! A beautiful fretless banjo that was recently willed to me from a local player, Stephen Bland. I have passed it to Gavin. I could never sell, it meant too much to me, but now it will be with him for his career

Find the deer in the woods!