The flag still flies …

Walking around the Liverpool Public Library to survey the effects of Storm Stella last sweep, my breath escaped my chest when my eyes hit upon our American Flag. Something’s not quite right, I thought from afar. It was still flying high. It still looked proud. But a walk closer confirmed my suspicion. The winds had…

Around the Library, the Village of Liverpool deals with the March snow

When the Liverpool Public Library opened its doors Thursday following two days of Storm Stella-forced closure, of course I pulled my iPhone 6s out of my pocket on the short walk through the Village to Nichols for my morning cup of coffee. The walks and lots had been mostly cleared from the feet of snow…

Can this really be the path to spring?

The second morning of Storm Stella was as bad as the first here in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I walked out the side door of A Bitty Better and sighed. My neighbor was snow-blowing his backyard. I grabbed my shovel and got to work. When he stopped for a moment, I mentioned across the…

It’s not the Blizzard of ’93 quite yet, but Stella’s still snowing on us

Back in March of 1993, a blizzard delivered more than four feet of snow in one ferocious whump when I lived in Morrisville, some 35 miles southeast of Syracuse. The way I still remember it, I pushed the garage opener, shovel in hand, in the hopes of digging out in the morning. I watched the…

This is what cold looks like in the middle of March

The little temperature readout on the corner of the screen of “Today” reads 15º F this bright morning of March 11. Dogamous Pyle aka Ellie B got me up at 6:45 a.m. to fill her bowl and let her out in the backyard of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I saw…

This tree’s a hard one to dress up

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I came across another eccentric tree during a recent stroll around our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. First we noticed the tree itself. Worse for wear, for sure. Seen better days. Victim of something that led it to a big blade of some sort. Then the face really popped out…

I couldn’t believe what was on the sidewalk

Seen in the Village of Liverpool on Ash Wednesday. I saw this pastor from the Liverpool First Presbyterian Church and his Ashes-to-Go station while on a coffee break from my job at the library, outside of Nichols supermarket. I posted this photo on the LPL Facebook page. Then I shared it to my own page.…

Take a cool trip with the Origins of Jazz thanks to Mike Dubaniewicz Quartet

A week ago, I was hustling to capture the mood in the Carman Community Room at the Liverpool Public Library. The Mike Dubaniewicz Quartet was filling the air with bebop for the second installment of the Origins of Jazz II series, and the capacity crowd was digging it. Sax player and front man Dubaniewicz filled…

Hail, yes, this February thaw has been interesting

On the morning I posted all about the bulbs popping up around A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, I had to run out to my car in the pouring rain to let my dear wife Karen pull out from behind me to leave for her job at Syracuse Media Group. Lightning flashed…

What will we see coming up at A Bitty Better?

It’s an exciting time at A Bitty Better. My dear wife Karen asked me if I’d seen the sprouts. Out front and in the back. Yes, this February thaw has brought green from bulbs in our new home in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. We moved from The Little Bitty in the Syracuse neighborhood of…