Be Polite

Viburnum Blooming in December

Chalk Drawing at Freedom of Espresso

Merry Christmas 2015

No Shirts on Christmas Eve!

Chimney Trees

Collection of Fire Hose Drying Towers

Syracuse has a nice collection of old fire stations with their fire hose drying towers still intact. None of these stations are still in use, and most are in private hands now. 

Firemen's Insurance Company Fire Mark With Hand Pumper

In the 18th and 19th centuries, fire marks like this one were posted above the first floor on the exteriors of homes and commercial buildings to alert the responding fire department of which insurance company to apply to be paid for fighting a fire as advertisements and also as evidence of an insurance policy should the paper policy burn in a fire.

This site has an enormous amount of information about the origins of fire insurance in England and America and about the club, The Fire Mark Circle of the Americas.

Humbug...

Bah...

Onondaga Park, Now and Then

Ss. Peter and Paul Orthodox Church

Goethe and Schiller at the Top of the Stairs In Schiller Park

Marking the Entrance to Schiller Park at the Beginning of Wadsworth Street

Pop-up Art on the Parkway

She stood out early one morning in the late fall landscape, near the bridge over the salt pond on the Parkway. By the next day, she was gone. I miss her.

Portable Mailbox

Stillwater in the Middle of December, 2015

This record-breaking snowless and iceless December made my monthly trip to Rap-Shaw today by far the easiest one in many Decembers.

Crouse College, Syracuse University

Wake Robin Farm at the Regional Market

Protective Angus Mom

View from Hill at Maple Avenue Farm

Upper Onondaga Park Gazebo and Duck

My Contribution to Internet Cuteness

The Missing Piece

Tractor for Sale

Red-tailed Hawk Dropped By

Only at This Time of Year from the Coffee Shop

Ben's Map of New York State

Village of Brookfield, Hidden in the Trees and Surrounded by Farms

Raking Our Oak Leaves

Montreal, var. XI

Please Forgive Me Canada

...for when I see your construction cones I think of "Cat in the Hat".

Village of Poolville, South of Hamilton