View from Blueberry Hill
Nobody at the Preserve
It just amazes me on a beautiful day like Saturday afternoon, there was not a sole to be seen at Blueberry Hill, despite the crowds to see the jester and clown at the Lupine Festival at the Discovery Center.
Another View Of Our Table
You’re Not Wanted
"It was a familiar story in Troy — where, over the last six years, at least seven black residents have been acquitted of resisting arrest and then paid by the city over claims of police brutality — and evidence of a nationwide trend driven by demographic shifts shaking the country. As black and brown people leave major cities to raise families in areas that were once predominantly white, they’re encountering police departments that are slow to reflect those population shifts and all too eager to placate longtime white residents who equate change with rising crime. To those white residents, the officers serve as a final line of defense against the outsiders marching onto their land, uniformed allies paid to protect them from the dangers they feel closing in around them."
A Rant About the Lack of Recycling at the Lupine Festival
I just think it's moronic that the Albany Pine Bush Comission was too lazy to put recycling bins at their lupine festival for cans and paper.
