Dome in the winter

My dear wife Karen and I appreciated our first winter walk to the Carrier Dome with its new roof line for Sunday’s college men’s lacrosse game. I think the snow setting and different sun angles allows a different perspective than the football season.

A winter walk up the Syracuse U hill

February is a nice month to catch a college men’s lacrosse game in the Carrier Dome. As long as you don’t mind a bit of brisk as you walk up the Syracuse University campus hill toward the big stadium. My dear wife Karen and I had found a nice parking spot on Marshall Street, 45…

It shaped up as a good day

A solo trip to the final game of the Syracuse football season allowed me plenty of snapping time for interesting scenes. Even though it was below freezing, some fans still dotted the reserved lots and tailgated for all they were worth as time wound down to the 12:30 p.m. kickoff vs. Wake Forest. It was…

Tailgating works even for a night game

The last Syracuse football game took place on a Friday night. Before I forget, yes, the tailgating parking lot my dear wife Karen and I bought into this season was still into it. On a Friday after work, we pulled in about less than two hours prior to the 7 p.m. kickoff, to temperatures under…

Happy Halloween from Central New York

The folks at Syracuse University have the Hall of Languages set up just right for this day. When my dear wife Karen and I walked down the hill after the Orange football game vs. Pittsburgh, they even had a spooky soundtrack playing.

It’s natural to pitch in to help families

Syracuse University put in the call for action before the football game. So I stopped at Nichols early game day morning and picked up a package of diapers. As with most purchases of unfamiliar items these days, I went through my sticker shock routine. I forked over $8.99 for an amount of diapers that might…

That’s a big piece of our view

The Carrier Dome is getting a new roof. It will be in place by next football season, officials say. It will no longer be the air-inflated bubble type. The cranes are there so the new roof can be put up. I know that an important piece of the Syracuse landscape since 1981 will look vastly…