A Winter Solstice sunrise, sunset preview at A Bitty Better

Those of you with enough patience to have been following my words and images here for awhile may recall that I have a thing for the solstice, both winter and summer. And today’s the day, my friends, when we here in the Northern Hemisphere have the Earth’s tilt that takes us furthest away from that…

Rio Grande feels sort of medium, but it’s still a Happy Birthday

I chose a rather new joint on the Liverpool restaurant scene for my birthday dinner last week. My dear wife Karen and I had been to the Rio Grande previously in our two months spent in the neighborhood of Galeville before she asked me what I’d like to do after work on the night I…

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…

Photo bonus day

Good and shots I think I’ve collected during my first four weeks walking around the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville and haven’t found a place for in any other post so far: I love the lines of the one above. It hardly looks like a suburban block. The one above screams of a well-kept house in…

An interesting place for a big house

You never know what you’re going to see when you take a walk in your new place in the world. Odd, quirky stuff, if you’re lucky. It’s happening already in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. My dear wife Karen and I came upon a good one while circling the blocks surrounding a Bitty Better with…

A triangle, but I don’t think it’s Bermuda … grass

I told you about the lawn/park that’s attached to the Salina Town Hall. Not too far from that, and A Bitty Better by proxy, is another green space that I don’t quite know what to make of for sure. It’s put in such a place that all drivers must slow down at all three sides…

Hello, Salina Town Hall lawn park

Over at the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, we had had Norwood Field. You probably got tired of hearing about Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I circling the couple of blocks there during our many walks, in fact. And now in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, we have a park…

Ellie B can be a good guard dog

I must admit I poked a bit of fun at our devoted rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle in yesterday’s post, what with her, er, relaxed couch pose. To be fair, she is a rather good guard dog, too, always ready to protect A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, as witness…

Ellie B likes the new look, same old feel of her couch

My dear wife Karen and I got new chairs to appreciate the living room of A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle got to keep the couch she loved so much. She did, however, have to get accustomed to its facelift. The new slipcover and comforter to better…