The crack of chair was a warning

So my dear wife Karen and I took the at-last warmup and a sunny spell as a sign that we should move the familiar plastic red chair out from under the side overhang and into the backyard for a relaxation spell. Sit and chat we did, late Saturday afternoon beers in hand. For a couple…

Two days in a row on the course, thank you

Tuesday was sunny and warm, so we stood by the first tee of Timber Banks ready to play spring golf in Central New York again. Never before had we started our golf season off with two rounds on consecutive days, I thought as KP and I prepared to hit our first shots on the Jack…

Finally, golf weather

I thought it would never get here this spring of 2018. Yet at last a blue sky and temperatures above 50 degrees arrived. And on the Monday of my staycation week, no less. KP and I were ready, with tee times set up at Foxfire. Yes, they said, the course is dry enough for the…

The birds were out in full color

I wondered why so many of my library colleagues were grouped at the windows of the big room at Beaver Lake Nature Center. Then I saw the bird houses. The trees. The birds. The beautiful, magnificent birds. These were all photographed through the window panes. My dear wife Karen and I will be returning in…

Now this was a walk during a work break

They gathered us at Beaver Lake Nature Center for this year’s staff development day for the library. Between the quite wonderful speakers and learning exercises, we were given some time to explore the glorious space in Baldwinsville, N.Y. A knot of us took the Bog Trail. Laura said she knew it well. We were thankful…

Nature’s confused

On a recent walk during my morning break from work at the library, we passed some confused ducks at the Village of Liverpool’s Washington Park. Yes, there they sat in a small puddle in a grassy plot not a mile from the big park next to the shore of the bigger Onondaga Lake. This has…

Enough with the snow already

Here’s what I saw after I walked out my front door in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville on Friday, April 20, 2018. And here’s what I had to deal with on my car before I could drive to the library for work. To say that winter has overstayed its welcome is the understatement of, well,…

Beverage wars?

On a recent trip to Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA with my dear wife Karen, I couldn’t help but notice the side-by-side business of Kung Fu Tea and Finger Lakes Coffee Masters. On this Sunday afternoon, the aroma of coffee brewing far beat out any tea scents. We didn’t stop at…