Gallery worthy at your feet

Through this lens. You never know what might turn up on the ground during Chalk Jam. The streets of downtown Syracuse certainly are better because of this annual festivity that adjoins the Arts and Crafts Festival. My dear wife Karen and I appreciated the artists and their work. Flags, many. Starting tomorrow you’ll see what…

Chalk it up to devoted artists

So real. My dear wife Karen and I made sure we took our now annual walk around the downtown blocks that host the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival and adjoining Chalk Jam. I think you can tell the sidewalks made for an excellent canvas for colorful art. So many styles. The roads held the colors,…

Apples in the ditch

Wondering why and how … They sprayed the ditch, George Three said as we sat and enjoyed our family day in he and Elisabeth’s back/side yard. He meant the creek that wanders just past their property line, where we’ve already enjoyed ducks wandering in and outside the edges. Will animals bob? So my dear wife…

Now that’s a bumper crop

Ripening tomatoes. All that hard word that George Three and Elisabeth are putting into that large side garden space in their first summer in their new house is really paying off. I smiled widely as I took photos during our recent visit for a chicken cookout. Japanese eggplant. The vegetable yields are coming in. I…

A great find down the road a piece

They can move the product, too. I’d been looking forward to my dear wife Karen’s company clambake since she came home from the eye center and invited me as her plus-one for an evening of food and fun following a work day. The festivities would be at Heritage Hill, a Brewery and Event Center in…

Worth the wait

Home run over at Elisabeth and George Three’s. That lonely lily put in the ground after a special delivery from a neighbor to Elisabeth and George Three recently yielded its bloom. Wow, is it beautiful! Wide view. And I got to take a phot with my own iPhone during a chicken cookout a few days…

Take us out to the ballgame

Buddies and baseball (and beer). One topic that came up after our golf game the afternoon prior was, which Syracuse baseball park did we like more? The old MacArthur Stadium or the current NBT Bank Stadium? KP leaned toward the old joint and its so-deep center field fence where fly balls went to die in…

Back on the links with KP, Tater and Nolan

Hale, hale, the gang’s all here! KP pointed his great latest car north from Atlanta and decided the change from July to August was the right time to spend some time back in Central New York. First stop for my part in the great reunion week: Green Lakes Golf Course with Tater and Nolan, too.…

Good cover

Privacy plants. We like it when the biggest plants on the kitchen side of our house yield their blooms at this time of year. That only adds to the cover in front of the windows, for those walking their dogs and such, but still allows enough light to pass in during the long days.

From up high

Should have brought my Windex. I had to take a photo through the window from the very end of the pedestrian bridge leading to the official Syracuse Nationals car show lot on Solar Street, adjacent to Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. It gives some perspective to the gathering mass that was…