Bring out a serene scene

I took a deep breath and said ahhhhh when I passed this corner on a work break walk from my job at the library. The Village of Liverpool can be quite lovely in May, for sure.

The whites and the pinks

A walk around the Village of Liverpool on a gray morning this week allowed me a great glimpse of the back side of The Retreat. How lovely their trees are at the start of May.

I’m digging my new set of wheels

It was time for me to finally call an all-wheel drive vehicle my very own. I’ve only lived in snowy, hilly Central New York since 1983, after all. So on Tuesday, I traded in my 2011 Chevy Cruze for my shiny, smells-great Honda HRV. It drove too smoothly in the test loop for me to…

I loved those stickers

My Chevy Cruze did me well since I picked it off the lot in June 2011. I even trusted it enough to place stickers that I thought special on its rear windows. I took a loving look this week. There was one final destination for me and my Cruze, you see …

I will cut that grass

Guess who caught a one-hour cap of good Friday afternoon before a weekend full of wind, rain and cold? This guy made the most of it with that spring mass of grass around A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Once I got the mower moving nicely, the grass was manicured to my…

It’s long again, naturally, that spring grass

The Friday forecast of rain, rain, rain was mostly right. And still I fretted about the growing state of tangle of the grass at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. The front was driving me nuts. The back, doggone it, was not too far behind. My dear wife Karen saw me fretting…

Julianne Moore loans her soap opera power of the past to Bel Canto

Picture a hostage situation where everybody gets along inside the gates. That’s what unfolds during the 100 minutes of Bel Canto, the political thriller/musical (you betcha!) directed and co-written by Paul Weitz with writing help by Anthony Weintraub in the adaptation from the novel from Ann Patchett. Patchett herself based her 2001 bestselling novel on…

Getting the winter out of the golf system

KP and I did not want to wait until our golf league started to get out and swing our clubs this year. Last year that was pretty frustrating. The first-time participation in the Foxfire Tuesday night nine-holder and our first round of the season together both took place in May. Too late. For the mind.…