Almonds uses, awesome!

The Saratoga company carries peanut butter so prominently in its name. My dear wife Karen is allergic to that most familiar, everyday nut. So she is quite familiar with looking for finer print. So when I warned her not to sample the Trifecta, she knew the smaller print said it was an almond butter product.…

Good smells draw us in

It’s not a bad idea to just follow my nose? As my dear wife Karen and I walk the rows of the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival, a tent selling soaps, scented waxes and such earns our first stop of the morning. I decide not yet. Of course that aisle is on our way back…

In between sights from the circle

While walking amid the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival vendors, it’s always a good idea to let the eyes drift to the striking architecture that surrounds the drop-in tents. Yes, that’s the statue that still honors one Christopher Columbus, if you read yesterday’s post, standing at the center of the circle named after the now-controversial…

Welcome back, Arts and Crafts Fest

After a few years off because of you-know-what, the Syracuse Arts and Crafts Festival returned to downtown Syracuse this past weekend. It took just a few words of <em>Do you want to go …</em> from my dear wife Karen during our what-are-we-gonna prep talk for me to get psyched. I’ll start my blogging welcome with…

Back to jazzy

The Syracuse Jazz Fest returned to downtown Syracuse a week ago, and so did my dear wife Karen and I. We pulled out our bag chairs and headed to Clinton Square on a sunny, hot Saturday afternoon in late June for some music and relaxation. Fest founder and producer Frank Malfitano was back in fine…

The air seems rare now

I took these photographs and wrote this post on downtown walk a while ago as I continue to clear out some unpublished posts. Summer, you know? When I first moved to Syracuse way back when, my raised-downstate mind noted the lack of skyscrapers. Now I note how high this building looks to me.

You can’t shake this nickname

I spotted a store on my Downtown Syracuse walk selling a shirt bearing the city’s nickname. Wow, how this title for Syracuse has hung in there. We do not manufacture salt anymore, no matter how you put it on the table. Here are the origins of the title, thanks to the Onondaga Historical Association.

No need to panic

At first blush, one might think something bad was happening to that big downtown Syracuse building. Nope. Merely the puffy white clouds in just that particular spot in the sky.

Something else I know nothing about

This business advertisement in downtown Syracuse looks sharp. But it reminds me of how much about hair I don’t know about these days. No jokes about the state of my hair needed. I’m comfortable with short and graying with what I’ve got left.