Sometimes I feel like a King at the library

The task: Promote another meeting of the Liverpool Public Library Chess Club. The photo file was full of pictures I’d used previously. So I went down into our main room and snapped off a few new ones. I used a version of this one on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Get it? Why do you think…

A beautiful slice of sunset over Galeville

With all the talk of the Supermoon this week, I still kept my eyes peeled for other things in the sky as I walked Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle around our new Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I caught this gorgeous sunset Monday, right after I’d gotten home from work at the Liverpool Public Library. And…

Supermoon over A Bitty Better

A Bitty Better makes a good backdrop for a Supermoon. Our first phenomena in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville delivered a fairly stupendous shot of the sky above our new home. I called my dear wife Karen out around 9:30 this evening of Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, a night when the moon is closest to…

Feeling fallish at Onondaga Lake Park

The green held on for a good, long time at Onondaga Lake Park.’ As I took my latest lunchtime stroll from the Liverpool Public Library, it looked way more like fall had arrived on the shores of Onondaga Lake Park. I had to pull my iPhone 6 from my pocket as I circled on my…

Meet the Liverpool Public Library’s Flat Stanley Grace Flener

Flat Stanley has been around for while. In fact, the character came from the mind of children’s book author Jeff Brown and pen of Tom Ungerer in 1964. I came across the little dude, though, at my job as communications specialist at the Liverpool Public Library. As part of the Flat Stanley Project, the Pinckneyville…

A theater big enough for all sorts of shows fits Freedom of the Seas

The Arcadia Theater is a busy room on Freedom of the Seas. Our happy group went there after dinner every night. Royal Caribbean International made sure to put a fitting exclamation point of a showroom on this big ship of theirs. To me, it looked like the nicely decorated joint holds around 1,000 people in…

Action, camera, Lights?

My dear wife Karen and I are fans of Lights on the Lake. The past several years, we’ve taken the chance to stroll along the path at Onondaga Lake Park when they’ve opened the annual blazing-lights tradition along the trails on the shore. We’ve even taken Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. Now that I work…

Let the fireworks dazzle over and in CitiField

When our hometown Syracuse Chiefs set off their post game fireworks, the pretty pyro takes place from behind the center-field fence. Which I always thought was good and proper as my dear wife Karen and wonderful daughter Elisabeth and fantastic significant George Three have enjoyed many Triple-A fireworks displays and left NBT Bank Stadium very…

Shine on, almost Harvest Moon

I was hit with this startling sight in downtown Syracuse when my dear wife Karen and I stepped out of the Landmark Theatre after seeing Jersey Boys Friday night. I believe we were one night past the official Harvest Moon here in the Northern Hemisphere. I know it was a beautiful nearly full moon over…

The stadium looks cool from way up here

The first two trips my dear wife Karen and I took to CitiField, we sat on the right-field side of the Mets pretty ballpark. So for the trip to meet the Long Island half of the family for a Mets-Nationals game on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend, I picked a block of tickets in…