Happy holiday to all

Wishes for all. May you and yours have a great day whichever holiday you celebrate. My dear wife Karen and I will gather with family just a mile down the road at terrific daughter Elisabeth and George’s house. Great thoughts go out to all in your part of our world.

Needs a good yank

A little too far. Weeds Gone Wild! I thought as I strolled past this building corner in the Village of Liverpool. It won’t do anybody good to have it grow thisclose to the foundation, right?!

No fear

Snack time. Yes, this squirrel is unabashedly dining as I near on the walking path during my Onondaga Lake Park stroll. Thank you for posing! You’re hired, too. And, coincidentally, another furry model allowed me a photo opportunity as I made my way back to my car parked outside the library on Tulip Street.

Hint of a haze

Our place. The flags stay our all summer in our Village of Liverpool. Up in the sky, I notice a bit of the haze the weather folks talked about spreading east. Still blue, though, much more so than the wildfire hazes we experienced last year. Still awful for those who find them closer to home,…

Still lovely, this village

Come on down. It was a lovely August day for a Village of Liverpool stroll. So after I finished my book exchange at the library — two back, two out this time around — down I went toward First Street and then beyond, phone camera at the ready. As they did in the years before…

Line them up

Good planting. Back when whoever put the holes in the ground to plant these lovelies outside this Village of Liverpool corner business/residence building, some good thinking was done. The spring result on the back side of the bricks is quite nice indeed.

Color before the lake

Pretty in pink. A keen eye discovers a shocking pink tree ready to shout in the Village of even before you get to the entrance to the lake park.

Comfort on the village corner

First up. A visit to the Village of Liverpool corner for a late April stroll allows the realization that the tree smack dab in the middle of Tulip and First was always ready to make me smile at this time of year while I worked half-a-block up at the library.

That busy street

Flashback. This time I was able to take a left at the crest of the hill, jump into my car, and drive home in my car, seat filled with a new stock of library novels. Feels different than the days when the turn came to the right to continue my library work shift. Happy retirement,…

More pet store proclamations

They say so. After a recent visit to the library where I used to work, I took the strides down to the corner to check out the sandwich sign from the Village of Liverpool pet store. Bring in your guy or gal. They are still swapping snappy slogans.