Savoring the green, green grass of spring … training

It’s bracingly, frighteningly, stubbornly cold still in Syracuse, with snow on the ground. March can be a bear. And so when my TV guide tells me that my New York Mets are being beamed from a spring training game in Florida, I will land there for a moment. The Mets are playing a Saturday contest…

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, but I won’t parade around this year

Today’s the day to celebrate all things Irish. And green. They got together for the annual St. Patrick’s Parade in downtown Syracuse last Saturday. My dear wife Karen and I did not attend this year. Too cold. Our local ABC affiliate, WSYR-9, broadcast three hours of the parade, as per custom. They started at noon…

Can this really be the path to spring?

The second morning of Storm Stella was as bad as the first here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I walked out the side door of A Bitty Better and sighed. My neighbor was snow-blowing his backyard. I grabbed my shovel and got to work. When he stopped for a moment, I mentioned across the…

Can anybody tell me what this thing is?

During a work lunch trip with three colleagues a bit ago, I spotted this scene out of the corner of my eye. It caused me to fish my iPhone 6s from my pocket. What the heck? Pardon me for my ignorance, but I do not know what this is. I thought maybe the police had…

This is what cold looks like in the middle of March

The little temperature readout on the corner of the screen of “Today” reads 15º F this bright morning of March 11. Dogamous Pyle aka Ellie B got me up at 6:45 a.m. to fill her bowl and let her out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I saw…

This tree’s a hard one to dress up

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I came across another eccentric tree during a recent stroll around our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. First we noticed the tree itself. Worse for wear, for sure. Seen better days. Victim of something that led it to a big blade of some sort. Then the face really popped out…

I couldn’t believe what was on the sidewalk

Seen in the Village of Liverpool on Ash Wednesday. I saw this pastor from the Liverpool First Presbyterian Church and his Ashes-to-Go station while on a coffee break from my job at the library, outside of Nichols supermarket. I posted this photo on the LPL Facebook page. Then I shared it to my own page.…