If I forget thee, O Buffalo
But how could we, when there's the Garden Walk to draw us back every year? Pro tip: the city of legendary winters has delightful summers. And gardening fever spreads block by block, year by year. Now there's almost 400 gardens to tour ( here's a few of them). No competition, and no admission fee, though donations are solicited.
Some years ago, the city got itself designated an "All America City" -- a tagline that strikes me as rather fatuous. I have a belated alternative: Bee Balm City.
As an added bonus, Buffalo has reclaimed a bit more of its ole industrial waterfront with a beautiful outer harbor park:
-- and a bike trail that now runs miles along Lake Erie.
This year's Garden Walk album (with a few more outer harbor pics at end) is here (ICYMI above). Past effusions here. Atlantic ode here.