Happy Fourth from our spot to yours

Our oasis. My dear wife Karen and I looked hard in our favorite medium-box store before going with the new blue chairs to top that seating area of our backyard. She found the little table later. The old red ones had seen better days … and years. The outdoor carpet that sits beneath them, on…

Admiring the climbers

Great achievers. My dear wife Karen pointed out how high our backyard climbers have reached this summer. They’ve bloomed with a boom, I’ll say as we’ve wrapped up the holiday weekend.

A happy holiday at our friend’s lake house

Our wonderful friend Gloria decided we were moving through COVID-19 enough for her to invite folks over to her extremely fantastic place in our world for a Fourth of July party. This lake is a free minutes short of a half-hour’s drive from our house just outside of Syracuse. My dear wife Karen and I…

Happy Fourth of July

I’m thinking that our Fourth of July will include backyard time with the backyard pool swimming and a bit of outdoor beanbag tossing. May you find the place and activities that help you be happy.

May the Fourth be good to you

In this tumultuous time, July Fourth takes on a different tone. Living with the virus all around us. Civil unrest for deep-seated unbalanced racial foundations. A country divided over mask-wearing, our leadership and so much more. Yet I still take the trip across my street for a photo of the waving flag for July Fourth.…

A new spot to watch the ballpark fireworks works out glowingly

My dear wife Karen and I slung the bags containing our folding chairs over our shoulders and off we walked he night of the Fourth, winding down just a few blocks from A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in search of a good spot to view the fireworks forthcoming following the Syracuse…

Happy Independence Day this Fourth of July

Happy Independence Day from the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. I ran out from the side porch of the Little Bitty this morning clutching my iPad Air 2, expecting and hoping to take a shot of Good Neighbor Tim’s American Flag fluttering from his pole planted on his front lawn next door. Not up yet.…

If you light them up, please be careful

With three days to set things off, somebody somewhere is going to hurt themself. Or, worse yet, send a bottle rocket or another home firework off into the good night and have it land and turn somebody else’s holiday weekend into a nightmare. For my July Fourth Weekend edition of my Mark It Up community…

All-American night at the park

The folks who run the Syracuse Chiefs and the city’s department of parks and recreation decided that NBT Bank Stadium was the perfect place for a July Fourth doubleheader. The 7 p.m. Triple-A game between the Chiefs and Pawtucket Red Sox and following fireworks display drew quite a buzz. By 6:30 p.m. all entrances to…