A lovely look to the library’s street

When I left work Friday afternoon, there was still enough light left to jog down to Onondaga Lake Park to take some pictures with my iPhone 6s. OK, I walked briskly from the cold. No jogging for me. The lake photos I’ll save for another post. Tulip Street upon my return provided the perfect image…

Side by side, we paint our own twists to hang on the wall

All those folks making their own messes with paint and brush on a recent episode of Undercover Boss caught my attention. This, I told my dear wife Karen, looked like something I could get into. And so we pulled up to the Liverpool Painting with a Twist this past Saturday night, signed up and psyched…

I wouldn’t tell them to smile

I was sitting at my desk at the Liverpool Public Library working on something or other when my found rang. Page Sara sounded excited. She said there was a photo opportunity downstairs. Children’s room, pronto! I knew what my friend and colleague was talking about right away. Two little kids with balloons. Their moms were…

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…

Finding fun on the SU hill

Walking up the hill toward the Carrier Dome for any Syracuse University sporting event, Crouse College always stands out. The Castle, it could be called. Taking that walk for a game last month, my dear wife Karen and I spotted some kids stamping the big hill around the building as their own. They were on…

Supermoon over A Bitty Better

A Bitty Better makes a good backdrop for a Supermoon. Our first phenomena in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville delivered a fairly stupendous shot of the sky above our new home. I called my dear wife Karen out around 9:30 this evening of Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, a night when the moon is closest to…

Happy Veterans Day, with honor and gratitude

A couple of miles up the road from where I work and live, there’s quite a striking sight in front of the Wegmans supermarket. The Flags of Honor and Gratitude surely make for an impressive collection. The premised for the past several weeks: Folks can sponsor a flag in the array in the name of…

Giving A Bitty Better the special (window) treatment

My dear wife Karen and I couldn’t live for a whole week in A Bitty Better in the Liverpool neighborhood of Galeville leaving certain windows bare, now, could we? Hey, now, the ones up front were covered quickly with sheets. Modest, we are. But the first full weekend after moving from The Little Bitty, we…