A cool spot for runners, walkers and those who work with them

Crowds will buzz around our Onondaga Lake Park a month from now, a Tuesday night in June that will transform the usual recreational trails and the surrounding shore space into the tented village for the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge. For my freelance story in the just-out May edition of the glossy Central New York the…

Photo 101: Weekend of cropping and B&W

Our weekend assignments in Photo 101 advise us to look back, mull, dwell, take action. This morning some thousand-plus runners in the Syracuse Half-Marathon ran through my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood, and I took a lot of photographs with my iPhone 6. Indeed, I posted a handful already today. I think I’ll offer more,…

The 13.1 miles includes .1 past our house

They will come thundering down our city Syracuse neighborhood hill again Sunday. The runners participating in the second edition of the Syracuse Half Marathon are sure to be a colorful bunch. Cold, too. Forecasts right now are for high temperatures in the 20s. About 1,600 runners have signed up to log the 13.1 miles that…