Let the tree debate continue

The last time I put the near-buds up here, people told us we did not have a lilac. We had a magnolia. This came after a couple years of my dear wife Karen and I calling our front yard spring-flowering tree our lilac. All because that’s what folks on social media told us it was.…

It still makes me smile

It’s not yet those precious 15 minutes taking a break from work at the library, but approaching Onondaga Lake Park from Tulip Street in the Village of Liverpool still makes me happier than I was a moment previously.

Hello, buds

I’m yearning for the flowering our our front yard lilac tree. The emergence of buds has my attention.