There’s still boating down the road
On a recent break-time walk from my workplace at the library, I wanted to see what’s up at the edge of Onondaga Lake. Yes, that is a guy still putting his boat into the water. Wow. What a fall this has been.
If somebody’s got to swash and buckle, hey, it might as well be Johnny Depp
Johnny Depp is back as Captain Jack Sparrow to continue Disney’s moneymaking, Pirates of the Caribbean series. This one is tagged Dead Men Tell No Tales, and what a whopper of a lie that is. Directed by Joachim Ronning and Espen Sandberg from the screenplay by Jeff Nathanson, this fifth installment of the march that…
Nice place to work, my dear daughter
When I drove east to Madison County earlier this week, I took a few minutes to stop in to say hello to my wonderful daughter Elisabeth. She said it was OK to stop in where she works in Hamilton. I didn’t want to interrupt things in the physical therapy wing by snapping any photos with…
A very cool place to pull over in Cazenovia
Back in the day, I used to drive past Cazenovia Lake a lot. Lived in Morrisville. Worked at the big daily in Syracuse. The route along routes 20 and 92 were second nature to me. The other day, I felt the urge to pull off at the side of Cazenovia Lake. Fall has taken a…
Castle from a different angle
The castle that is really Syracuse Universithy’s Crouse College has been a photo favorite of mine for years. Walking to the Friday night Orange college football game against Clemson, I was able to capture it from a different angle in different light. I never get enough of this place’s aura.
Rest well, pops
My dear wife Karen was a bit unsettled when I got home from work recently. She obviously had something out of the ordinary to tell me. We’d received a package, she said, leading me up the stairs to the guest room. It was covered with brown paper for shipping. I saw the word Cremains stamped…
Pumpkin time in the Village of Liverpool, thanks to Nichols
Halloween is around the bend. Leave it to the folks at Nichols to be ready with their outside decorations when I go for my coffee on workplace break in the Village of Liverpool. Ready or not, here it comes.
Let’s hear it for the Children’s Hospital
For Friday night’s Syracuse college football game against Clemson, my dear wife Karen and I decided to take a different walking route up to the Carrier Dome. It took us past the Golisano Children’s Hospital at Upstate Medical University. As dusk falls on the Syracuse University hill, this sure is a striking sight. I’m glad…
This Wonder Woman needs to conquer a world of trouble
Comic book lovers and TV viewers of a certain vintage certainly are no strangers to the powers of Wonder Woman. The Princess of the Amazon brought justice to the DC Comics world, starting way back in 1941. With Lynda Carter wearing the title costume, she vanquished villains for three seasons from 1975 to 1979, the…
Syracuse rocks the Dome old-school with the Clemson win
The radio talk show guys were wondering what Syracuse’s 27-24 upset over Clemson on the night of Friday the 13th compared to in the Orange’s Carrier Dome history. They were young post-game hosts, a former player from this decade and a radio station guy not far removed from his SU graduation. So their frame of…
