A bright bulb or just confused?

On a trip to my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood’s Paine Branch library on a day off, I noticed some green shooting out from the small patch of earth in front. Hey, bulbs, this early in February in Syracuse, N.Y., is not the time to be showing your lovely heads yet. Too much cold to…

Doggie daydreams at 5

Caught in a pensive mood, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle is gazing upon the side yard in our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. So I wonder about our beloved rescue mutt as she approaches her fifth year with us … what is she thinking about as she looks out on the…

Majestic moon shot

Straight from a work shift at the store, I drove to Destiny USA to catch a late afternoon movie for this week’s review. Dirty Grandpa. DeNiro and Efron. Catch my views here Monday morning. After that solo viewing, I pulled into the driveway of the Little Bitty in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood tired…

I actually believed we would have it easy

Perception is reality, they say. They are right. Dagnabbit. In December, I was lulled into actually believing we might be in for an easy winter here in Syracuse, N.Y. That was way back when it was an average of 10, 15, 20 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than our usual blustery cold in the Northeast of the…

One family member loves the snow

I’ve fully chronicled my wish that the snow stay away from the our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. The reasons are many. Snow removal of course is high on my list, right up there with my aversion to driving in it, on it, through it. This week’s storm came through the…

A low noon January sun casts a gray tone in Syracuse

A noontime errand to the main drag of James Street in my Syracuse city neighborhood of James Street coaxed me to pull the iPhone 6 from my pocket. The low-riding almost-mid-January sun mixed with herringbone clouds carried an almost monochromatic tone to the day. A traffic light allowed a small signal of red as a…

A snowy start to the new year

We’ve had it so easy so far weather-wise in our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. So I dare not complain about the snow falling the first morning of 2016. In fact, with less than a quarter-foot having graced the grounds of the Little Bitty so far when normally some 30 inches have accumulated in Syracuse…

Moon rise, sun set

As we enter the first day of 2016, I offer a set of photographs I captured with my iPhone 6 the night before Christmas just outside the Little Bitty here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Elisabeth and George Three had just arrived for our celebration, carrying in their arms full of presents. While…

Merry Christmas from Syracuse, N.Y.

At the loving prompting of my dear wife Karen, used a shovel and sweat and she took it the rest of the way with top soil and Miracle Gro to put a pretty little juniper into the earth in front of our Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood some half dozen years…

A dress-up party at the Landmark feels right

We skipped my dear wife Karen’s office party last year. For some reason. Saturday night we put on the nice clothes, drove the 3 1/2 miles downtown from the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, and mixed and mingled with her co-workers from the Syracuse Media Group in the beautifully restored Landmark…