English Daisy Art

Onondaga Youth Lacrosse During Senior B Intermission

Not sure if these are Peanuts or Tikes or Pee Wees, but their legs sure are short. 

Everybody's in toward the end of the game.

Face-off at Tsha'Hon'nonyen'dakhwa': Onondaga Redhawks Play Rochester Greywolves in Senior B Lacrosse

On Point for College Celebration

Syracuse's unique support program for students who are first-in-the-family to go to college, homeless or refugees. This program is making it possible one person at a time! 

Adirondack Chair Fundraiser at Liverpool Library

As We Left Circa in Cazenovia...the First Presbyterian Church

Wind Art at Lipe Park

The wind was blowing hard; the sound of hundreds of strips of plastic whipping around was all-involving; it started to pour. Complete success!

Performance Art Close to the Bone...

...or just close to the bone? Seven AM on April 20.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Brenner

Tank Art

Claudia Takes Wing

Stairs at Morningside

Hidden behind community gardens are immaculate Morningside stairs. Only the piers of a dangerous toboggan run beside the stairs survive to remind us of exciting urban winter sports.

View from Our Porch

Round Lake with Amelanchier Canadensis

Homeland Insecurity

Claudia with the New Lens!

Common Grackle

Community Garden at Morningside

Red House

Flo on a Rainy Evening at the Everson

Sycamore in the Valley

There's a Bunny in Our Dogwood

Great Blue Herons Exchanging Watch

The chicks are hatched.

The Special at Bangkok Thai Restaurant on R 57 at John Glenn

Eastern Redbud

Strathmore by the Park: Brochure from 1919 and Modern Photos

Late in the winter Sean Kirst, our favorite blogger of people and ideas important to Syracuse life and our stories here, produced a brochure from 93 years ago. 

In 1919 developers opened up a large tract for single family homes on the southwest edge of the city, near drinking water reservoirs and Onondaga Park.

This topo map from 1893 will show people familiar with the city how this undeveloped land appeared then. The corner of Bellevue and Onondaga Street is in the upper center, indicated by your blogger's attempt to create an unobtrusive reference point, a brown circle. Other familiar streets are Geddes and Glenwood, whose intersection is also marked with a small circle. Roberts and Robineau were not yet built.

Very early homes on the new tract.

A Ward Wellington Ward!

 

They built the garage first.

The last two sets of pictures are not in Strathmore by the Park. The developers wanted prospective buyers to know that they would be rubbing elbows with affluent and tasteful people. The upper end of northern Summit is within what is known simply as Strathmore, across the park from Strathmore by the Park.

The northern end of Robineau, on a hilltop overlooking the reservoir, was not part of the development, though it was included in the brochure. To sell the style of the neighborhood? No doubt.