Big blooming year

Before we get too far toward autumn things, I must recall how big our blooms were this year. The pinks and the purples were outstanding in September.

That’s a big piece of our view

The Carrier Dome is getting a new roof. It will be in place by next football season, officials say. It will no longer be the air-inflated bubble type. The cranes are there so the new roof can be put up. I know that an important piece of the Syracuse landscape since 1981 will look vastly…

I will be wearing my own No. 72

I no longer have to wonder where I can purchase my very own No. 72 shirt to honor Tim Green. The number worn by the star lineman from the 1980s hung from the stores on Marshall Street up on the Syracuse University hill, too. And now one will be on my back when I got…

We’ll take muffins for our tailgating, please

I got to the nearby Dunkin’ by 8:30 a.m. Went inside because the drive-through was clogged with a half-dozen vehicles of morning hungries. The pumpkin and chocolate chip muffins looked good for my dear wife Karen and I. They went quite well with our pre-game Kona at the tailgate. Such is life for noon Syracuse…

Sand and butter hold true for sculptures

The New York State Fair folks moved the sand sculpture back to the Center of Progress for 2019 after a year at the Exposition Center. It looked good back in the center of its old home. Get the monkeys, my dear wife Karen urged. Walking the aisles, I noticed the sculpture had different themes on…

State Police car timeline provides memories

Having lived in New York State all but six years of my life, I had memories of many but not all of the cars in the New York State Police exhibit. Not that purple one, wise guys. I told my dear wife Karen that during a certain era, the color pattern of the cars brought…

But he forgot the grand piano

The big sound came from the guy in the center of the knot of fair-goers on the midway. The man in the one-man band really did know how to rock out. Bandaloni is his name, and he can really play guitar, drums and everything he carries on that rig of his. His singing voice made…

We find the fried dough and way more

The new layouts the New York State Fair folks come up with every year do make the walking navigation easier. No worries. We managed to find Pizza Villa in its new spot. Not pizza. Stretch fried dough at its best. We were impressed that the stand owners used the term exactly as they do in…