A Trip To Buffalo.

Alison and I headed over to Buffalo, on Saturday, to take a look at Martin House - A complex of remarkable structures that Frank Lloyd Wright designed and built between 1903 and 1909. Although no inside photography is allowed, I did take a few shots of some of the outside. Our guides were extremely knowledgeable and answered every question I threw at them, which was more that a couple.

One thing that amazed me was how lovely Buffalo was, in the area we went through (across the Queesnston Bridge). It was like going through some of the oldest sections of Hamilton and Kingston, where there are plernty of century homes and the neighbourhoods have managed to maintain their beauty and character. The people were also surprisingly friendly. Compared to the 'other' Buffalo that most people are familiar with (across the Peace Bridge), this was like some kind of bizzaro world with well-paved roads, perfectly manicured laws and gardens and seemingly vibrant neighbourhoods.

We only spent a couple of hours in the US, before coming back and hanging out in Niagara-on-the-Lake, where we went to a couple of wineries and where I had the most perfect cherries ever... Really, they looked like so perfect, you might mistake them for tacky plastic imitations. After that, it was back to the falls for a couple of hours.

Just a couple of links, this morning:

Inside Mugabe's Violent Crackdown - The Washington Post
Where the Money Isn't - Newsweek

Anyway, back to painting.