Good luck, roses

Kind of buried. What are the odds that are lovely front and backyard roses will kick out any more blooms before real spring? Feeling the white stuff. I know they can soldier melts up and down, but …

First piles of the season

Cleared. The car looked ready for my trip the to library after my brush action on Friday morning. Dog-friendly, still. The side alcove didn’t look too bd, either. This first dose of December snow did not come with a big sideways wind.

Meanwhile, to the south

Of course I must text with my terrific daughter Elisabeth when we get snow before morning travel to work. She assured me her drive was doable. And she sent me the photo above after arriving to the Orthopedic Specialist complex in Hamilton, with the tag line: “This is how we measure the show.” More than…

We could be in deeper

It took only one day to look very normal after the big Northeast storm passed through our way. After clearing the cars and shoveling our walk, I’d say our part of Central New York got a half-foot before people had to stir on Thursday morning. Could have been more, I knew after hearing about other…

Piling on

Who knows how long the melt will last. The weather folks say lake effect may move back to the Syracuse area as soon as Thursday night. So I had to point the iPhone 6s toward the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. A two-day warm up had melted every bit…

Snow turns Ellie B into a happy Dogamous Pyle

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle took this trait with her from The Little Bitty to a Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. It was obvious to me when I made my way home from my job at the Liverpool Public Library through the squall late Wednesday afternoon and accompanied my cherished rescue mutt…

Beware the snow and blowing snow

It didn’t look too bad outside A Bitty Better when I woke up Thursday morning. The dire weather forecasts seemed to be, well, a bit too dire. The snow really hadn’t arrived in full force. It was cold, though. But then I reached the bottom of our street in the Galeville neighborhood of Liverpool and…