a mini trip

Last Thursday we took the day off work and took a trip down to Buffalo, NY. I personally really like Buffalo and always enjoy visiting; it’s a city with a fascinating history and it’s full of beautiful buildings. Sadly, this time we didn’t have time to visit the Albright-Knox, but since all it takes to get there and back is a free day and a half a tank of gas, I hope we’ll be back later this summer. We didn’t have a real reason for visiting (other than a general love of America, eagles, and stars and stripes, for real), but our friend Joe wanted to stop by O’Connell’s, a pretty incredible menswear shop that he had ordered from before but had never visited. This is our version of tourism, I guess. If you follow me on Instagram, some of this will be familiar, since I decided to be reckless with my data roaming and posted a few pictures there. 

We got caught snapping pictures of Joe in front of the building and it was pretty embarrassing, but also hilarious. It was a deadstock Woolrich jacket pilgrimage, possibly the world’s first.

Ice cream at Parkside Candies on Main Street. This building was so beautiful on the inside and we decided that it would be a nice place to have a wedding.

Buffalo has some cool buildings so we took a brief architecture tour.

The Guaranty building, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.

Joe proclaimed that this text is “perfectly kerned” (for signage).

There are a few Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes in Buffalo, including the Martin House Complex. It was closed but we wandered freely (tresspassed?) around the grounds. The light was so perfect at that hour.

These were some of the sweetest-smelling roses I have ever stuck my nose in. I spent a few moments wishing there were a way to bottle the scent and send it to Heather.

Thanks, pamphlet (these were taken with the Olympus Stylus Epic which sometimes focuses on the wrong thing, oops).