Geese going for a swim at my marina

[Dennis Donovan]

Cayuga Lake (NY), yesterday.

Today, goose poo everywhere!

[Tribalceltic]

1. Dude you own a Marina!

That's cool.. Ithaca is Gorges!

[Dennis Donovan]

2. I have a boat there...

It's partially obscured by the Trojan on the right.

[3catwoman3]

3. Love the Finger Lakes.

My 97 yr old mom and I own a small cottage on Keuka. Unfortunately, I live in the greater Chicago area so don't get there more than twice a year.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Cayuga is my home lake.

Its waters run thru my veins. It also took the life of my father 51 years ago.

[3catwoman3]

7. I am so sorry about your dad.

I keep a small crystal flask of Keuka water on my dresser.

I grew up in Rochester. My parents bought this property in 1987. My dad died in 2011. For the first couple of years after that, my mom did go down by herself, but not anymore. We rent it out during the summer season so we can afford to keep it. I am not ready to part with it.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. It only made my connection to this body of water stronger.

My life is intertwined with it. Keuka is also extremely beautiful!

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Neat! I got goosebumps watching this!! NT

[Dennis Donovan]

6. Geese won't chill when cellphones are recording.

...although it probably had more to do with dogsmell on me as I approached them.

[csziggy]

9. Nice! Those geese look really healthy, too.

My ancestors came from your neighborhood - Genoa and King Ferry. They left in the 1870s and moved to Escanaba, Michigan. The old family homestead is still standing north of Genoa, built in the 1790s by Benjamin Tupper.

Someday I want to get up there and visit.

[Dennis Donovan]

10. My maternal ancestors also hailed from King Ferry, Genoa and Scipio!

Guessing you're of Irish descent? The towns south of Auburn and north of Ithaca were primarily settled by the Irish, post-famine.

[csziggy]

11. No, my NY ancestors were mostly English and German

Hewitt (though they changed the spelling to Hughitt), Hoagland (originally settled in New Amsterdam), Tupper, Greenfield, Pomeroy, Bradley, Drake, Wilbur, and Milliken (he could have been Irish). Most of them arrived in the Finger Lakes area soon after the Revolutionary War. The Greenfields arrived in 1832 - the last arrivals on that side of the family! This is my father's mother's family. His father was of Welsh and Canadian decent - the Canadians were from Yorkshire and Scotland mostly.

Now on my Mom's side, there were Irish - they bought land from William Penn and got to Pennsylvania before he did. They left Ireland in the early 1680s! Those are the only Irish we are certain of.

[Dennis Donovan]

12. Nonetheless, our ancestors were neighbors!

My maternal great Grandfather's family were English (Carter, who first came to America, NJ, in the mid 1740's), but migrated to Central NY because of land grants given to them due to their Revolutionary War service.

I love genealogy research!

[csziggy]

13. They certainly were!

My husband and I were just talking about taking a trip up to the Finger Lakes in a couple of years. Maybe we can meet for lunch when we are there.

[Dennis Donovan]

14. I'd like that!