Sun will rise, promise

Good morning to us. It can look pretty stark beyond our driveway when I go out to the car to take my dear wife Karen to work her morning shift in late December. The light, it will arrive.

Moon over the quad

Lovely setting. Is that a full moon, my dear wife Karen wondered as we walked from the JMA Wireless Dome to catch the shuttle bus back to where we’d parked in downtown Syracuse for our one Syracuse University football game this season. It looked so nice I had to take another photo after we’d covered…

Good landing spot

On the path or the rink. OK, Santa, you can tell Rudolph and the rest if the reindeer to take ‘er down anywhere they want right around the square. Happy Christmas Eve …

Building the bond

Looking up. OK, I thought, glancing across the street from the decorated downtown Syracuse square. The wreaths look nice for the season. But the building looks really cool no matter.

Let it be a good bowl show

Nice try. When my dear wife Karen and I visited the JMA Wireless Dome for the Syracuse University football team’s final game of the regular season against Wake Forest on Nov. 25, fans were asked to take part in a end-of-the-third quarter hold-your-phone light show. Meh. Much has happened to raise hopes and expectations since…

Tasty noodles and dumplings

Interesting decor. Given an open choice for a dinner selection for a birthday celebration with my dear wife Karen, terrific daughter Elisabeth and fantastic fiancée George Three, I went with an Asian fusion spot on Erie Boulevard that’s been on my mind since it took over a crab joint earlier this year. Or maybe it…

Gazing across the lake

Life goes on. Retired-guy-I still appreciates standing here to look to the other shore and imagine what the other folks are up to amid the billowing smokestacks dotting the there end of Onondaga Lake.