Buffalo and Beyond

Sunday, 3 January 2016

Inflatable Christmas Decorations

East Aurora Christmas Decorations

Buffalo's local adult shop is well lit at night and very visible from the I190. Closer inspection reveals plenty of "short use" underwear for sale. A visit to the interior was saved for another occasion.

Love Road, Grand Island, USA

A snap of Love Road is the closest to Love Canal that could be found.

Abandoned Streets, Love Canal, Niagara Falls, USA

Love Canal, Niagara Falls, USA

One might expect Love Canal, an old suburb of Niagara Falls, to be a euphemist's wet dream. Sadly this is not so. Love Canal turned out to be a short section of useless canal that became a forgotten toxic chemical dump. Houses were built close by and a human disaster ensued which due to various denials dragged on for quite a while. Since then, houses have been demolished, signs removed and a fence erected around Love Canal. Snaps of the fence and turfed over toxic dump are shown above.

Reflected Revelers, Founding Fathers Pub, Buffalo

Founding Fathers Pub Bartender

Christina is one of the bartenders at Founding Fathers. Here she is "in action".

Founding Fathers Pub, Buffalo

The theme of Founding Fathers is US Presidents. A quick poll of nearby drinkers settled on Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt as the favourites. Luckily the placemats includes a recap of all of the presidents. This was most useful and helps answer any US President based questions that crop up.
The bar has a facebook page here

Little Beaver Island Signs

These signs are nailed to a post. Their meaning remains unknown.

Grand Island to Buffalo Bridge Views

Travelling on the I190 from Buffalo to Canada includes a hop onto Grand Island and back off again These hops are accomplished with large blue metal bridges. The trip costs $1.

Little Beaver Island, Buffalo

When duck hunting season returns these mallards will be fair game.

Friday, 1 January 2016

Moorings, Beaver Island State Park

Len Co Lumber, Buffalo

Fire hydrant - check
Stop sign - check
Use of American English i.e. "lumber" for "wood" - check
All in all a very typical US scene.

Beaver Island State Park View Towards Canada

Note the few whitecaps on the water. It was "quite" windy and chilly. In this case "quite" meant - "argh!, dammit!, hands are stopping working, don't drop the camera that would be inconvenient".

Beaver Island State Park View Towards Buffalo

Beaver Island State Park Waterfowl

What appear to be gulls hang out on the beach in freezing cold weather.

They appear to enjoy the strong breeze and land slowly.

Beaver Island State Park, January Swimming

Beaver Island State Park Beach

Buffalo Views and Flying Saucers

These were taken from high up in the Embassy Suites Hotel, Buffalo.
The flying saucers are interior lights reflecting off the windows. You are of course welcome to believe that these are actually flying saucers that "the Feds" have doctored to look like interior lights. I was discussing this and other related topics with Elvis and JFK in a chat room only the other day. It turns out that Elvis still loves a burger and occasionally calls in at Dinosaur Barbecue in Buffalo. I guess I was surprised to hear this but the burgers at Dinosaur are pretty good.