Ready to light it up

Gathering … It wouldn’t be an autumn stroll at Onondaga Lake Park without the gathering of displays for this year’s Lights on the Lake display. Easy to spread out. Soon enough, I know, they will be carefully placed in their rightful locations along the path. And then, it will be closer to Thanksgiving, the event…

Still ready for action

Not gone yet. An autumn stroll that reached the Onondaga Lake Marina found the boats still ready for action. Indeed. Some names of course caught me eye, too. It would not take me long to start calling that Godfrey beauty <em>Arthur</em>.

Big bucket

Ready for autumn clippings. My dear wife Karen did her best with our big lopper, trimming this and that. We put them out to the curb in a neat pile on garbage day. I thought they were within the size rules set out by the waste company. They left them there. And then I remembered…

Hanging out and hanging on

Calling my name? Soon, I think, every time I go out to our backyard with my dear wife Karen and/or our cherished rescue mutt. Comfy seasonal stuff will have to be moved into our shed before the snow flies. Sigh.

Still blooming

Thank you. I’m glad I can still walk out from the side door and appreciate our backyard rose plants. Hello, October blooms.

Smoother

Better, yes. When Elisabeth and George had their driveway sealed a bit ago, I knew I had to make the call. Ours needed the facelift, too. They did a good job smoothing the old spot out the best they could. Of course, the worker did say that the only way to make our convenient parking…

Yes, it’s covered

Leaves, out. The pool cover keeps stuff out from September to late May. I do like watching our cherished rescue mutt carefully walk around it as she does her backyard business.

New spots

To the left. The coming of October means my dear wife Karen has put her shovel to our earth and changed location for some of our plants. She uncrowded the busy front garden and put one plant each to our new array of bushes by the neighbor’s driveway and by the back fence. Room to…

Fancy colors

Better off red. As we get ready to welcome a new month, our front yard dogwood is going from green to red. Fall will do that to our favorite foliage.

Lovely little lake view at sundown

Thank you, our slice of the sky. Look the orange, my dear wife Karen exclaimed while doing this and that around our kitchen. She had a bit a slice of our still-feeling-fresh lake view pouring through the window just after the sun had waved bye for the day. I rushed out our front door, a…