Adding to the gallery

The great shots from George are now framed and hanging in our vacation gallery. The big shot with the invisible frame he took where we stayed in Kona. The smoldering orange came at the big volcano in Hilo. Ahhhh. Hawaii.

Ready for the long rake job

I know how hard my colleagues who handle the custodial work at the Liverpool Public Library work to keep the building in tip-top shape. When I saw the size of the roof rake after the last big snow, I pictured how hard it must be to get that thing up there and scraping. Bravo, Annika…

Trudging out in the Dinosaur Garden Lawn

At the library, my boss Glenna’s office has a great view of the Dinosaur Garden Lawn. When we had a big snow last week, she came up to my desk and said it looked kind of cool to her. Out I trudged. The shots I got with the Liverpool Public Library good camera went up…

Reflecting on the arrival of spring

They spring is coming. Yes, even to Central New York. Yet this is what I saw just a few days ago after picking up my pre-work coffee at Nichols in the Village of Liverpool. The still-snowy scene struck me to stand in the middle of First Street to snap the shot on my iPhone 8.…

It’s hard to remain stoic for Only the Brave

Only the Brave was ripped from the news. So anybody who followed the the course of the Yarnell Fire of 2013 or the GQ story No Exit by Sean Flynn from which this screenplay by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer was fashioned would know what’s to come. But still … The drama of that…

Wine o’clock with a side of Di’Giorno’s

So what does a guy do when he gets home from a snowy Friday at the library and his dear wife Karen is in Florida with Georgia visiting Chris? I toasted toward the south. And I shared a slice from the new oven with our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle. And still…

The Florida look

My dear wife Karen was able to join her great friend Georgia for a quick getaway to visit Chris in Florida. They split their time between a hotel and Chris’ house because husband Dave had a friend in town with first dibs. Yes, Florida friends are really popular in March. There was a music festival…

Now that’s a tape job

My dear wife Karen’s flight with friend Georgia to Florida was delayed, she told me in a text. There was a problem with an overhead bin, they and the other passengers had been told, and they could not pull down the runway until a maintenance worker took care of the situation. The hatch couldn’t flap…

Shutterfly brings Hawaii to us

Some of George’s Hawaii prints are in … The biggest of the order came on its own. George got this one at our Kona hotel. Now it’s forever-caught on cardboard stock. Next, we’ll get some frames and complete the wall up the stairs.