Far and wide search for color leads to our front lawn

I kept my eyes opened everywhere I traveled this fall, hoping to find a stunning tree to capture, big colors to share. Then I pulled into our driveway after my library shift Wednesday and there stood our lovely dogwood right in the center of our front lawn. The soon-to-set sun hit its going-to-fall leaves in…

Bucket brigade

OK, I think right away on my library work break stroll … Did they throw this empty bucket out because it was bent garbage? Did they take this empty bucket out and immediately fill it with the garbage they saw on the sidewalk on the street? Did people see a decorative empty bucket out and…

The plow company agrees the time is near

Shortly after my dear wife Karen and I finished making our backyard ready for what’s to come shortly in our part of the world, I took cherished rescue mutt Ellie B out the front door for a stroll around the blocks. What did I spy but newly placed staked to line our driveway borders, an…

I see a mulching mow in my future

Usually when I mow the lawn at this time in November, I’m considering that it might be the last time I have to pull the mower out of the shed for the season. Taking in the whole picture as I passed over the grass this weekend, I notice all the leaves still up on the…

My train of thought

There’s something about watching a train cross the road through your drippy windshield on a gray, rainy day that’s halfway comforting. Yes, even when you’re on your way to work.

I’ll stick to my opinion

My dear wife Karen found a new bath mat so darn comfortable that I told her that it’s such an upgrade from the old slip-slidey that I’m considering it an anniversary present. Safe, sound and sensible. You betcha.

I remember where I was when the plane fell in Lockerbie

I remember where I was that horrible day in 1988, when word came of the plane that carried Syracuse University students crashing in Lockerbie, Scotland. I was a newspaper editor for The Post-Standard, and everybody, editors, reporters, pressroom operators, had to band together as more and more bad news came in and the the horror…

We brought the Cheesecake home from the Factory

Terrific daughter Elisabeth and George Three gifted my dear wife Karen with a great gift card good at the Cheesecake Factory for her recent birthday. We happily attended on a Sunday afternoon at Destiny USA. My lovely wife was quite happy with her steak tacos and beans. My four-item omelette made me smile with it…

Birds shift their spot on the building

My dear wife Karen and I sat on the back of my car as we tailgated Saturday afternoon and looked up at those interesting Syracuse birds. They were back up on that building flanking our football game parking lot, yes. But they’d shifting from center to left corner. Go figure. Yes, I like watching birds.

Another Orange 44

This tailgating crowd in our usual lot decided that its skinny orange balloon guy had to wear the famous Syracuse uniform No. 44 as well as the name of famous Ernie Davis, the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy and a source of so much pride at Syracuse University that the green turn…