Back at you

Peace, bro. Sometimes somebody notices me noticing them. This artisan at the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival flashed the peace sign at my iPhone. Truth be known, it was the juxtaposition of the two tones of red brick buildings in front of the higher gray office building to the right of the black Trittello sign…

Walking and noticing stuff

We have a skyline. Of course my eyes go back, forth, up and down as I walk the blocks of the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival with my dear wife Karen. Interesting scenes come from people, trees, buildings and the combination of all.

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.…