So this is spring

After the second visit from the plow company. This sure has been some start to spring. My dear wife Karen and I woke up this Saturday morn to TV weather folks telling us about 3 to 6 inches that had come this way since we’d gone to bed. The backyard rail says 3. Another 3…

Everybody walk

A fit day to be out for people and critters. The sun and warmth brought out walkers, two legs and four. The squirrel at right decided the path to the lake was more fitting at this moment than all those leafless trees.

Weather or not

Split sky. The sky toward the east caught my eye when I returned home from driving my dear wife Karen to the eye center to start her 7 a.m. shift. Would the snow stop or start anew? It’s been that type of weather as we bridged winter to spring. Have a good trip. Just a…

Home and Garden show stroll

Midway to state fair time. Terrific daughter Elisabeth texted with an offer of free tickets to the Home and Garden Show at the New York State Fairgrounds. Her boss had a handful to distribute. Yes, thank you, for my dear wife Karen and I. Show us your stuff. So we met Elisabeth and George for…

Just in case

Not yet. Should the nice-day striders and cyclists need a break, relaxation awaits along the Onondaga Lake paths.

No stopping, no how

Turn of my path. On a recent stroll through the Village of Liverpool on yet another beautiful March morning, I decided to take a different entrance than usual into Onondaga Lake Park. That stop sign could use a red-paint touch-up, thought I.

Happy cat sitting

Thank you, grandpa. When terrific daughter Elisabeth and fantastic fiance George take a well-deserved winter vacation, I gladly volunteer for cat duty. They have an automated feeder, so that pretty much relegates me to going over a couple times a day to make sure her water dishes are full and empty the litter box. But…