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So I was watching Extreme Makeover: Home Edition today and had quite the revelation.

If you didn’t know, today’s episode featured a local family. Watching it really made me realize how amazing Buffalo is. You may often hear me complain about our long winters, or our horrible football team but I really do love it here and it’s the things like this (and the Buffalo Wings) that make me grateful to be a “Buffalonian”. It’s where Becky and I were born and raised and I am really happy to say that. Today’s episode of Extreme Makeover really hit me. I wasn’t surprised to hear this that this episode in Buffalo had a RECORD SETTING amount of volunteers and support. More than 6,300 people spent 53,544 hours fixing homes, landscaping properties, planting trees, building community gardens and all that good stuff. Our community impressed the show’s producers so much that they made it a special 2 hour episode. Leave it to Buffalo to go above and beyond the call of duty.

Buffalo is far from perfect, but our community is what makes it the best place to be. We come together when duty calls and it makes us all stronger.

So yeah, this post has absolutely nothing to do with photography so please forgive me for my ramblings. “Stay Classy Buffalo”

~Mike