Not to shock anyone but today I went walking in Forest Lawn Cemetery. You have to walk in cemeteries in the fall, I am sorry. In October.
I love fall days when the weather is undecided. That happens often here in Buffalo. Sometimes it rains when the sun is shining. Often the sun beams out of dark clouds. The trees shine red and gold against the brooding skies.
The picture above shows in the center the memorial of my Buffalo News boss, Stan Lipsey. He was always wonderful to me and I say a prayer when I pass.
Stan Lipsey was the publisher but he was always happy to see any of us when he ran into us, in the office or out of it. He was at my wedding and he was at parties at my house.
"Get out! Stan Lipsey was at your house?" Someone said that to me in the ladies room.
"I invited him," I said.
That was when I was a humble copy editor! I had actually invited the whole newsroom. I loved it when someone didn't show up and later found out the publisher was there.
Happy days in the newspaper business.
Back to the October skies. Here are more pictures of Forest Lawn that I took today.
Those clouds!
I am a Pluviophile. It means I love clouds.
Can you take one more?
And I took this picture yesterday on my way to the trolley.
That sliver in the lower left hand corner is just a bit of the bridge. That is a wonderful view you get on the Amherst Street bridge.
Even the dreary Audubon Branch Library gets drama and poetry from clouds.
Everything looks better against a cloudy background.
I think I must as well!
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