The flip side of daylight savings

I do admit that I dig the extra hour of daylight after dinner. But as I opened my eyes to face the morning side of Daylight Savings Time, I was again reminded that it’s just one big Ponzi scheme. I had waited all winter for daylight to greet my opening eyes, day by day, minute…

Snow Mountain, closed to skiers

This is getting old, this snowy winter. I promised Ellie B, aka Dogamous Pyle, a walk this Sunday morning. The theme came to me quickly as we got to the business end of our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Where are they going to put it next? The four-day mini-melt of last week is long…

There is an across-the-street, I know it

As snow-experienced as I am from 31 years of living in Central New York, it still takes my breath away when the view from the window is snow and only snow. It had lightened up a bit by the time I went out on the side porch to snap a shot with my iPad Air…

They’re noisy birds, but I don’t mind

Every so often sitting in my living room here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood these past couple of days, I hear a thump against the picture window. Ellie B, aka Dogamous Pyle, jumps on top of me on my recliner to peer out, and I hunch over to protect the family … iPad…

Another snowy day touches down in Syracuse

Temperatures steadily in the 40s. One day in the 50s. Snow melting from the roofs of our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Counting the days ’til March with the fingers on one hand. The big tease in our part of the world is over. Wicked winter ’13-14 rolled through again Monday, with a quick, efficient…

Oh, my aching back

As I was shoveling the path that connects his driveway to ours, Good Neighbor Tim opened his big front window and told me we had gotten 10 inches of snow overnight. My comment: That’s all? He had finished with his snowblower, but I still had plenty of shovel work left up close to my house.…

More signs of Syracuse’s significant snow

Some of you can’t seem to get enough of my snow pictures. And I live to make my WordPress friends in exotic climes happy. Mind you, compared to Syracuse, N.Y. that’s just about everywhere, but as of this cold February morning, I am talking about those experiencing summer in the Southern Hemisphere or somewhere else…

Don’t you know it’s cold out here this morning?

Funny thing about Ellie B, aka Dogamous Pyle. Every day, no matter the season, she wakes up with sunny-and-70 in her doggie brain. A trip out the back door and out the porch should always bring her greener pastures, right? Or at least, her grassy backyard in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Then she…

More snow. Repeat, more snow. Did I mention it was snowing …

OK, more snow in Syracuse is a no-news item. Even when it’s come down all day, since overnight. Even when I just got done clearing the driveway for the second time this Feb. 5. Yet I couldn’t help but snap this shot with my iPhone 4 after this most recent flurry of snow-throwing. The white…

I fondly remember The Snurfer, that early yellow snowboard

I was a pioneer in the snowboarding movement. This I discovered yesterday, when my sister Fran started a look-back Facebook thread because they were expected a good bit of snow on Long Island. Our neighbors two doors down on the Suffolk County hill that cascaded on our suburban street, the Carrs, chipped in with memories…