Photo 101: Keeping my edge aligned

As Photo 101 winds down in week four, I want to make sure I concentrate hard. You know. Keep my edge. Make sure I use these parcels of enlightenment to gain as much knowledge to make my blog photographs captured by my iPhone 6 and iPad Air as good as they can be. So I…

A beautiful if chilly day for daughter’s first clinical at St. Joe’s

My terrific daughter Elisabeth put her request in last week and tweaked it early yesterday, discovering that she’d been tardy by 30 minutes in the original. So I set my iPhone 6 alarm to 6:30 a.m. as a fail safe, even though I was fairly certain I’d be bright and smiling for her 7:30 arrival…

Photo 101: I’d treasure a return to the green plus B&W4

We’re into the fourth week of Photo 101, classmates, and Michelle has instructed us to look closely at something we treasure. I pulled a couple of my golf clubs out and sat them down on my still brown lawn, perched them against the rail outside the front steps of the Little Bitty my dear wife…

Syracuse Half-Marathon skips my block, but can’t escape my color and B&W

I woke up waiting for the runners from the Syracuse Half-Marathon to thunder down my block in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood for the third year in a row. It’s become a happy day for Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle, my dear wife Karen and I. We happily discovered them by mistake at the…

The little tease, and a B&W challenge answer

It’s going to get nice here in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood eventually. It’s spring, after all. Saturday afternoon, I noticed more green in the backyard my dear wife Karen and I’s cherished Little Bitty. The grill has been liberated from its mound of covering snow. The shed is completely free from the white…

A Liebster Award from Rachel across the pond

Another spring season to savor. It’s time for the greening our our world. Soon in Syracuse, I say to myself on this Saturday morning. Soon. I know somebody who’s been smelling the flowers already, and I shall not be jealous on this March 21 morn. Rachel of London, Lundygirl for short in WordPress lingo, was…

Photo 101: Finding scale in my life, uh-huh

Frankly, as enriching and rewarding as these three weeks of Photo 101 have been to my blogging iPhone 6 skills, sometimes I read my emails that contain the assignments and sigh. Take my observation about lesson 14 and scale, for example. Michelle found a tiny toy baby on a cake at a fantastic bakery in…

What I like about Syracuse, fresh on Zillow

A couple of months ago, a guy from Zillow by the name of Nick Elam asked me if I’d like to have some of his Zillow.com copy that’s appropriate for my Syracuse readership to run on my blog. Well … thanks for thinking of me, Nick, but … I think I’ll be writing my own…

OK, you’re still the boss

Did this past week of 40-degree (F) temperatures raise my spirits and optimism here in Syracuse, N.Y.? Yes, indeed. Did I enjoy the magnitude of snow melt we’d experienced after 50 straight days of sub-freezing weather and snow that topped 100 inches? Sure thing. Did I think we’d escaped winter’s icy fingers? No, I’ve lived…

Photo 101: Ellie B updates her isolated touch by more than a third

Saturday morning discovery in the backyard of The Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood: As the warming melt has reduced the snow pack, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle has expanded her collection. I thought made a good shot for a weekend update for Photo 101 from her solitude and rule of thirds…