A garden that bursts with beauty, love and hope

I took the photographs, wrote this post, and scheduled it to publish today before my sister Fran died last week. I’ll return soon to look with new eyes. I’d pass the Butterfly Garden of Hope every time I drove up or down the Onondaga Lake Parkway and think that someday I’d like to stop and…

Perfectly powzer

To help celebrate Labor Day here in the U S of A, I saved some of my fireworks display photographs from Star Wars Night put on by the Syracuse Chiefs baseball squad at NBT Bank Stadium here in Central New York. Happy day to all. Hover over any gallery photo for a description. Click on…

Our daylilies get their moment in the light

What a lovely butterfly garden in the backyard of our cherished Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood my dear wife Karen has cultivated this summer of 2016. I took these photos more than a month ago. They’re too pretty not to show off. Sweet time of year, indeed. No matter how you…

From Dinosaur to goats, there’s plenty for State Fair roamers to gawk at

Meet at the Regional Market parking lot for the bus to the State Fair, my dear wife Karen and I agreed before we left for work. And then when I pulled past the final Syracuse Chiefs baseball game of the year and to that handy, dandy satellite parking destination that we’ve been using for more…

The young and the formerly Beach Boys at the New York State Fair

The New York State Fair is always a place for all ages, even when they open the gates for free for those over 60 on one of their senior days. That was the case Monday when my dear wife Karen and I took our one trip this summer of 2016. That’s when we were free…

Behold the multi-colored butterfly bush

The last of our big three butterfly bushes pushed out its blooms. Behold, to the right, the multi-colored beauty. We loved the completed trifecta in the triangle garden in the backyard of the cherished Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Yeah, I love the look back there, for sure. No question about…

Catching some monster shots at the Pokemon Safari

My job at the Liverpool Public Library took me to a Pokemon Safari at Onondaga Lake Park this week. While the patrons chased the little monsters on their smart phones, I chased the best photos I could find. (Videos, too, and I think I came up with a pretty good one riding the conference bike…

Fine fireworks from the Chiefs at Star Wars Night

It took until mid-August for my dear wife Karen and I to take in our fireworks this summer. Terrific daughter Elisabeth and tremendous significant George Three invited us to Star Wars night at the Syracuse Chiefs game Saturday night at NBT Bank Stadium. The spectacle was, well, spectacular, and the Chiefs won in one of…

A cool greenspace in Bayberry

My outreach assignment last weekend from the Liverpool Public Library took me and my camera bag to the Bayberry neighborhood. An old friend, Mike Banks, had alerted my colleagues Laurel Griffith and Dave Witkowski when he spotted them out at a previous event that he was cooking up a big celebration from his spot at…

Our first upgrade inside the amphitheater allows close up of sweaty Rob Thomas, Counting Crows

As we rode with Michelle at the wheel on the way to the Lakeview Amphitheater last night, Kristin reminded us of the upgrade option. She said the table would be greeting the four of us with the chance to trade in our lawn tickets to see Counting Crows and Rob Thomas – or Rob Thomas…