Flag looks fine in the sun

One place I like to lead Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle on a winter walk in the blocks around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville is the easily navigated spread of the seniors spot. For one thing, our cherished rescue mutt feels at home there. And the scenery can be nice, too.

Give Ellie B just a bit of sun and blue sky

All it takes is a simple question. “Do you want to go for a walk, Ellie B?” Give us a little blue sky and sun and temperatures around freezing, and there’s no stopping my cherished rescue mutt and I in the blocks around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Happy we both…

Tempting, yes

No, I’m not. But do I think that this sign next to the library is effective as I walk through the cold for a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee? Yes, I do.

Retreat? Maybe later

The walk from my work at the library to Dunkin’ Donuts takes me past The Retreat. Sometimes the cold makes me want to beat feet to my desk, but onward I go for that cup o’ Joe.

Now that’s a village winter

I was taking photos for work in the library’s Carman Community Room when the look of the surrounding Village of Liverpool this wintry January 2018 drew my iPhone 6s from my pocket. I shot right through the window. The icicles from our rafters are lengthening. So too are the days.

From land,sea and air, Dunkirk keeps you riveted

There was no getting away from the unbearable tension at Dunkirk those striking days during World War II when the German forces had the Allied troops sealed off on the beach with no place to go. Director Christopher Nolan paints the horrors of war with tremendous anguish in Dunkirk, his 1-hour, 46-minute epic that should…