Bingo, we’re in the front row

Welcome, squad. Since moving to Syracuse in almost 40 years ago, I’ve watched football games at the dome from the press box. From the upper deck. From the second section sandwiched into the corners. Saturday, my dear wife Karen and I marched from the first-level concourse down, down, down to the seats she’d purchased online…

Different angles of game night

November night glow. The shuttle bus from Shaughnessy’s Pub dropped us off on Waverly Avenue, in front of Byrd Library, a short strut up the hill to the Syracuse University quad but most definitely a full block further to the left from the street we took up in years past. We appreciated the new perspective.…

Split loyalties

Orange side. With our season parking pass a thing of the past, a cool way to handle our Saturday night this-is-our-game-this-season excursion to the JMA Wireless Dome to watch Syracuse play Florida State. Shaughnessy’s Pub in the old Hotel Syracuse on downtown Syracuse’s Warren Street offered an intriguing plan. So we drove into their parking…

What happens in the front row

Yes, that is me. My phone dinged while my dear wife Karen and I rode the shuttle bus back to our great parking spot next to Shaughnessy’s in downtown Syracuse, where we’d decided to take advantage of their eat-first, ride to-and-fro the Syracuse game service Saturday night. Why, yes, I answered the chain from my…

Looks tasty, maybe

This exterior restaurant sign at nearby mall Destiny USA had been perking my interest for several months now. There was a permit paper pasted on the inside window. I spied tables sprinkled within the space of what used to be one of our local Ruby Tuesday locations. If you look in the forefront, you might…

Now that’s a hazard

My friend David texted me this photo from his job as a marshal on a golf course in New Orleans. And he’s invited me down for a visit … That’s just scary.

Calling to customers

Sure you can. The Village of Liverpool business renovations look inviting to me on the around-the-corner from the Liverpool Public Library stretch of First Street.

Standing out on the side street

Popping out. The bright orange caught out of the corner of my eye behind Nichols Supermarket made me dart down the street that rarely draws my foot traffic in the Village of Liverpool. The bright orange of this fall front yard bush made it worth the dash.

Pleasing symmetry

You belong there. My eye said I just had to line up this burning bush in the Village of Liverpool with the red brick apartment house behind it.