Leland Report

Last evening a bunch of us old-timers gathered together to remember those we grew up with, partied with and competed with. Don and Marilyn Pendergast were hosts for so many of our exploits a…

One heckava nice day, I’d say. If you like a day with a heckava blue sky, then you would love today.

The Joy’s fishing season is officially underway: the watermen set the first trap net over the weekend. And, if “April showers bring May flowers,” we should be expecting beautiful …

Seagulls jockey for position on a warm East Leland Barn

Vol XV #331 - Meggen's Monday

Still dark and dreary, but the otters come out to play anyway. It’s just warm enough today that the precipitation is rain: at least that’s what’s happening this morning. So …

A wintry weekend, to be sure! Wind, waves, lake effect snow… and (my first encounter with) ice balls. I headed to the water’s edge in time to catch Sunday’s sunset, if the s…

Another dark, dreary and windy getup with Winter Storm Warnings forecasting 8 to 12 inches by tomorrow. My Dark Sky weather app on my IPhone says 1 to 3. So far the app has been right. At the mo…

A mostly cloudy morning slowly became a mostly sunny day and what a nice calm day it turned out to be. A few damp and rainy days are behind us with hope that the next precipitation will be in the f…

Our day began in the early morning darkness. Joe and Nels were busy with getting the final turkeys ready for delivery tomorrow. Leland’s one and a half inches of snow disappeared overnight.…

Thanksgiving week started out gray, foggy, and hovering-around-freezing. Every now and then a little blue sky showed, but mostly it has been snowing with snow melting upon touching the streets.&nbs…

It was a beautiful day mid-week last week when the aurora was out.

Today is actually a good day to stay away from the areas that are being harvested. The Clay Cliffs area being one of them. There are a lot of out of town visitors here because of the weather, hop…

There are a lot of folks from out of town enjoying the Wine Tour.

Today wasn’t the best day to take pictures. With wind and rain, it wasn’t very pleasant. Going down to the beach the wind sounds like a train roaring through. All in all it could ha…

The Leland Report salutes our veterans, especially those who are no longer with us. Walter, born on this day in 1918 was a close friend and mentor. The General and I shared some stories together …