in Saranac Lake…the year I’m unsure of, but may be sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s, but whenever the photo was taken, it looked to be a glorious day. As I recall, most of them were…

1963…the Saranac Lake neighborhood of my youth with Baker Mountain rising in the distance. The photo was taken by my father who probably stood on what is Terra Drive today…

Late 1950s-early 1960s This was our ‘winter’ view from our front window of our childhood home on Duprey Street in Saranac Lake – this hill was where we spent hours as children sliding on whatever was available – sleds, toboggans, corrugated cardboard boxes…even old wooden skis were resurrected for winter fun and shenanigans. But this photo, recently converted from a degraded color slide from Dad’s archives, was of particular interest when I noticed just yesterday the cross at the top left of the photo, hovering in the sky. It could be an anomaly in the slide… or is it?

…no matter the season, this hill was a place for adventures…at the top of the hill is ‘Car Rock’, upon which we as kids would often picnic on warm summer days and feel like we were on top of the world

“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with.” F. Baum “The Wizard of Oz”

I agree.

on Lake Flower in the early 1960s. The boat at the family dock at the right of the photo, was named “Nancy” in memory of the daughter my parents lost to leukemia… 

… waiting for ‘the freeze’ with ice skating and all kinds of other shenanigans to follow…(This digital photo was converted from an early 1960s slide my late father took.) — in Saranac Lake, New York. 

Always met every expectation I ever had…