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The Photography Chronicles ~ 49

By Chris | Published December 5, 2011

Several Christmas’s ago we did a double trip, one week in Philadelphia to visit Bill’s family and one week in Buffalo, NY to visit mine. With snow on the ground and about 12 degree wind chills I took Bill to Anderson’s in Buffalo. There is not a season where I wouldn’t eat their chocolate custard with chocolate jimmies. Not a single season. Its a Buffalo staple and a family tradition.

 

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The Photography Chronicles ~ 12

By Chris | Published January 25, 2011

Winter in Buffalo, NY is cold and white. This is Niagara Falls, very cold, very icy, with a rickety fence to keep you from sliding under the metal railing and cascading down into the falls. This is one of my favorite times to see the falls, there are few tourists and there is something about watching giant chunks of ice floating down the Niagara river and crashing over the falls onto the rocks below that is somewhat thrilling.

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Buffalo, NY In A Flash

By Chris | Published December 30, 2010

I left at 8:35 on a Sunday morning, spent an hour or so in Atlanta… jumped on another plane and arrived in Buffalo at 3:30pm and went straight to the wake. Day two was the funeral. Day three I flew back home. A flash, I feel, is a very good description of this experience.

There are few things I enjoy and appreciate more than spending time in Buffalo with my family over the holidays. I love them, enough said. And even though I complain and shiver because of the cold and snow, it really does make it feel more like Christmas. Sorry Houston, your 65 degree weather in December just doesn’t do it for me. Though the occasion for our togetherness was a sad one, we took advantage of being together and did some traditional holiday/Buffalo things.

Kellie and I baked sugar cookies, and it was way awesome.

Boots, Santas, reindeer, christmas trees…we baked them all!

And then we decorated…so the colored icing didn’t turn out quite right, and we had a random assortment of jimmies, sprinkles, M&Ms, and chocolate chips, but we made good use of everything.

And there was my favorite pizza of all time…

And a cat on the manger.

And that my friends is Buffalo, NY in a flash.

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The Photography Chronicles ~ 4

By Chris | Published November 22, 2010

In August-ish of 2009 I had gone to Buffalo, NY for my grandfather’s funeral, a week later my grandmother (other side of the family) passed away. A three day trip turned into almost three weeks. There was so much going on in my life during this time, so much sadness, so much loss. In the midst of it all my father, his mother (my Nana) and my most awesome cousin Kelly went to the Niagara river. It was peaceful. It was beautiful. It was the first time while I was there that I felt like I could actually breathe. We had a really great time, walked the river, got ice cream, I ventured into the brush to take photos of the wildflowers. This photo carries with it so many memories and emotions, but the feeling of peace overwhelms them all.

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