I’ll own up to the dirty pile

During the last melt, the stubborn plower’s pile at the end of our driveway at A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville was, well, not exactly attractive. From any angle. What was the plow guy going through when he was pushing this stuff off our driveway, I wonder?

The coming of the green?

What does a bit of warm weather bring to our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville? Just a bit of a burst of the perennials. I know they’re very likely to be covered by snow sometime in March. Still, they raise my spirits.

Racing to find that sound

A recent weekend visit to Nichols to buy some staples also led to a stray toward Onondaga Lake when the return trip to my car included some sounds coming up from Onondaga Lake. People were doing something down at the park, I thought. The sound that was carrying up the two blocks was people cheering…

The sunset made my heart beat faster

As I walked out to the car at 5:30 p.m. to drive for a Valentine’s Day dinner with my dear wife Karen, I noticed this beautiful sunset in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I figured the evening was off to a pretty and proper start. Right I was.

The dusting

What is one way that winter in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville can wear you down? When it seems that you can’t remember how many days in a row you had to brush off the cars. And run the shovel along the front walk. I think of it as another darn dusting. But it sure…

That’s our pile

Winter continues in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville, and thank you, plow guy. There’s really just a single space in the driveway of A Bitty Better for the plow to leave it. I figured garbage day would bring the size of the pile to light. Our pail is, oh, four-feet high.

Blue sky down to the lake

I do not get tired of looking down the road from A Bitty Better in our Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville in different seasons, times of day, weather situations. I look down toward Onondaga Lake, and like it.

The flat-top look

Yes, my mind wanders during a winter walk in the blocks surrounding A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville. I spot a set of snow-covered hedges, and I wonder … … do they look more like a cool set of drums or a group of friends who all have the same haircut? Or…