Here come the butterfly bush blossoms

It’s August. The butterfly bush blossoms are pushing out in the triangle garden in the backyard of the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwoood. In the two of the four, anyway. The tall one has purple flowers showing. And the white one has the biggest cone-shaped blossoms out for the world to…

A good place for Daryl

My dear wife Karen and I met with her terrific son Daryl and his beautiful family for dinner the other night. We hadn’t seen girlfriend Vicky and daughter Alexis and my stepson in too long. But at last he and she both were able to get the same Sunday off at Turning Stone Resort and…

A group walk in the park

When usual guide Cindy called in sick at my Liverpool Public Library workplace, the hierarchy was in a bit of a fix to fill her slots leading a few activities. The Friday morning Walking Club was one of them. My colleague and friend Martina – volunteered. She was standing near my boss Diane when she…

It’s not Cape Cod, but it is Red Lobster

With the new job at the library starting in May, my dear wife Karen and I had to scrub the annual June week at the Happy Cottage in Cape Cod. So last week’s dinner at Red Lobster, thanks to a Father’s Day gift card from my wonderful daughter Elisabeth and great significant George Three, had…

A1 fever returns

One of my tasks as communications specialist at the Liverpool Public Library is capturing the flavor of events through the lens of the little sure-shot Canon they provided for the job. Better than the iPhone 6 for this blog, yes, in most cases, I’ve found as I go back and edit the digital copies on…

I dutifully send my Syracuse taxes off to the city P.O. Box

In the years I worked for the big daily, I could walk the few blocks through downtown Syracuse to City Hall. When I free-lanced and then worked at Lowe’s, my schedule was loose enough that I could make the trip from the Little Bitty in the city neighborhood of Eastwood to the official location to…

Getting a leg up in Onondaga Lake Park

I walked through Onondaga Lake Park during a Tuesday morning on the way to take photos of a Storytime for the library when I had to pull the iPhone 6 out of my pocket and squeeze off a few quick shots for myself. All of these folks with their legs just-so caught my attention. They…

A scary spark on our street in Eastwood

My dear wife Karen and I headed out to run an errand when she got off from her job at SMG Monday night. We didn’t stay out long. It was still light when I pulled my Chevy Cruze down the hill on our street in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood when we saw the…

My new dye job

My impatience took over on Day Four. When I woke up Saturday morning, I grabbed the directions I’d been stowing on my dresser since the Tie Dye on the Lawn event at Liverpool Public Library on Wednesday afternoon and read the how-to one more time. Let it set for eight hours, it plainly said. Or…