Up in our backyard, too

The mid-March green is rising in our backyard, too. Still some lingering snow, you see.

Now that’s early blooming

Yes, that was a large and spreading bunch of yellow blooms cherished rescue mutt Ellie B and I spotted during our recent warm safe walk around the neighborhood blocks. I was pleasantly surprised at their brightness and breadth.

Bye-bye, deer

Ellie B and I spotted this sad throwaway during our recent safe walk around our neighborhood blocks. It seems the decorative deer has lost its head.

I’ll take trending toward warm

It was plenty warm enough when I got home from work yesterday to take a walk with our cherished rescue mutt Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle to the end of the block. We took a good look down toward the lake. The sun wasn’t even prepping to say bye yet. Lovely. Today it will crack…

So we just regroup

Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle gets quite the look on her face when the weather doesn’t cooperate with her wishes when I first open the door to let her out to face Mother Nature in the backyard of our cherished Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. Thursday morning our beloved rescue mutt…

It’s 60 already in Syracuse

It’s not even 7 a.m., and the temperature crawl on my wide-screen tells me the warmth that greeted me when I let Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle out into the backyard of the Little Bitty in the Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood is the real deal. Make it 60º F. And climbing to 74, says…

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…

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When the temperature hits this high during my birthday week in double-digit December, well, my dear wife Karen, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I celebrate with a nice near-winter walk around our Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood. We took a long one, in fact, enjoying a nice late weekend morning together a couple of…

A skating day to the ‘T’

A business lunch took me to downtown Syracuse. I made sure I passed the ice rink in Clinton Square. A few folks were taking advantage of our warm upstate New York December weather on a weekday afternoon. It was unseasonably warm for a December day in Central New York. I was still wearing my winter…