Saving time at sunset

Ribbon of red. My dear wife Karen called out to me from the kitchen. The sunset is incredible, she decided through our window. I acclimated to Daylight Savings Time, grabbed my iPad to capture the magnificence, and agreed.

A sports-loving dog

Find a package today? read the text from terrific daughter Elisabeth. I did, on the side of the house tucked next to the air conditioning unit. Windy day! Our cherished rescue mutt was sure glad Elisabeth prompted the search. Elisabeth decided the whole family needed to be dialed in to the excitement for the start…

Winter to spring …

Our stadium. Hope springs eternal when I get to NBT Bank Stadium and my thoughts drift to Syracuse Mets baseball a couple of miles down the road from our house. Even in winter, I can feel it getting closer.

Looking forward to a good season

A lot to look forward to in 2025. Syracuse Mets general manager Jason Smorol is the perfect choice to get fans ready for a new season. He can stoke optimism for the players the parent New York Mets will fill Triple A roster with from April through September. This past weekend, he mentioned a prospect…

Going, going, not gone

Deep to center. Here’s the field that greeted us when we arrived for this year’s Syracuse Mets open house at NBT Bank Stadium. I decided as the event wound down over the course of two-plus hours that I could accomplish my own version of iPhone time-lapse photography. Settling down. It wasn’t warming up much, but…

Home opener is coming fast

Eager to get those tickets. Of course my dear wife Karen and I planned our arrival at NBT Bank Stadium with terrific daughter Elisabeth and George Three to get me in prime position to nab our tickets for the Syracuse Mets home opener the minute to ticket windows opened on open house day. I was…

Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Met

Welcome to Syracuse. At a previous Syracuse Mets open house, terrific daughter Elisabeth urged me to ask General Manager Jason Smorol during the finishing question-and-answer session why famous mascots Mr. Met and Mrs. Met don’t come around NBT Bank Stadium, ever. He handed the query over to front office colleague Kathleen McCormick, who told the…

Does anybody really know what time it is?

The kind I have to change by hand. I’m an hour off today. Welcome to Daylight Savings Time. Spring ahead. That’s the saying I use to remember the havoc thrust upon my b body at this time yearly. When I wake up, it will still be dark. Heck, when I drive my dear wife Karen…

Mets on my mind

Even delayed on the MLB Network … I’ve watched my New York Mets a handful of times already this spring. Every time they’ve been on. It’s soothing to see the green grass of spring training games on our living room big screen as we get through a typical Central New York early March of cold.…