Now that’s a village winter

I was taking photos for work in the library’s Carman Community Room when the look of the surrounding Village of Liverpool this wintry January 2018 drew my iPhone 6s from my pocket. I shot right through the window. The icicles from our rafters are lengthening. So too are the days.

From land,sea and air, Dunkirk keeps you riveted

There was no getting away from the unbearable tension at Dunkirk those striking days during World War II when the German forces had the Allied troops sealed off on the beach with no place to go. Director Christopher Nolan paints the horrors of war with tremendous anguish in Dunkirk, his 1-hour, 46-minute epic that should…

OK, let’s get picky

You never know what you’ll run into at mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA. And you never know what some folks will choose as their hobby. Put two-plus-two together and you get … Yankee Stadium constructed from toothpicks! And the star of the show, the world’s largest toothpick bridge. Hover over a gallery…

The big sell continues

Visitors to Syracuse mega shopping, dining and entertainment complex Destiny USA come from many miles away, they tell us. Different counties and regions and, yup, many from our neighbor to the north, Canada. So tourism people have recently set up a space in the Canyon wing to sell other hot spots, products and people that…

A lake lies in wait

If you dare make your way down the street, over the snow pile, across the icy lawn and to the dock, there is a reward to be found on an afternoon break walk from the library desk. Onondaga Lake at its wintry best awaits past the silent docks. Icy, yes. Beautiful, most definitely.

The color of winter

White snow, gray skies, ice a mix of slate. You’d think that an afternoon break walk from the desk at the library could bring nothing but a stark picture of the season. Even without the sun or a blue sky, you’d be wrong. A ribbon of glory awaits where the sky and land kiss and…

The snow, she piles up

Even if one should decide to venture down for a look at Onondaga Lake during the afternoon break from one’s desk at the library, well … Snow this winter has piled up at the Tulip Street walk-in. And melted. And piled up again. The stack looks high from the lake side, too. Wait! Doesn’t that…