14 March 2009 Photo(s): Luck of the Irish

Followed by yesterday luck of the orange, we went to the St. Paddy's Day Parade today. According to Wikipedia, "In the city of Syracuse, Saint Patrick's celebrations are traditionally begun with the delivery of green beer to Coleman's Irish Pub on the first Sunday of March. Coleman's is located in the Tipperary Hill section of the city. Tipperary Hill is home to the World famous "Green-on-Top" Traffic Light and is historically the Irish section in Syracuse. Saint Patrick's Day is rung in at midnight with the painting of a Shamrock under the Green-Over-Red traffic light. Syracuse boasts the largest St. Patrick's day celebration per-capita in the United States with their annual Syracuse St. Patrick's Parade."

The first photo is of one of my favorite buildings in downtown Syracuse. The art deco Niagara Mohawk building is an icon in the area. The balloon was escaping from a child's hand as I was snapping pictures. And the photo below was one of my favorite marchers in the parade...

13 March 2009 Photo: The Luck of the Orange

It is another month with a Friday the 13th but again in Central NY, it was not an unlucky day. The Syracuse Orange basketball team won in the wee hours of the morning on Friday the Thirteenth.  It took over 4 hours and 6 (SIX) overtime periods for the Orange to beat UCONN and to continue their dance to the Madness.  Get your brackets ready and start your trash talking!  Today's pictures was taken this morning on my way to the gym.  The Carrier Dome is the home court of our local team and with St Patty's Day approaching, Syracuse is celebrating the Luck of the Orange.

12 March 2009 Photo: Let's Do The Time Warp Again

I know I have mentioned my GPS in a previous post and my recent addiction to it.  I travel between Boston and NY almost weekly for several weeks during the semester.  After several of these drives with my GPS over the last year, I have found that there is a time warp between Worcester and Springfield.  On my GPS it gives you the approximate time you will arrive at your destination.  I have found that around Ludlow, MA the time shifts and changes to getting me home 20 minutes earlier.  This has not happened once, it has been many times. And I am not speeding up since I use my cruise control so the only explanation can be a Time Warp like the one from Rocky Horror Picture Show.  I tried to link to the video but Fox Pictures claimed copyright and won't let it be on youtube!  Oh well...hopefully you have seen the movie because it is a classic cult film!

11 March 2009 Photo: Hats or Haberdashery

I was walking around Boston on this day and found a hat store.  Now I am not someone who normally wears hats even in the dead of winter when is it below zero.  But I did find some hats in this window that would be fun to wear.

I like the word haberdashery but realized when I looked it up to write this blog that it is actually an obsolete term for hat seller.  I think I will start a movement to get this word back into our everyday language.

10 March 2009 Photo: Cash 4 Gold

I wonder how much Cash 4 Gold you could get for the dome on the State House in Boston?

9 March 2009 Photo(s): Footprints In My Heart

Cheesecake Factory March 2009 (above)

My Wedding Shower Summer 2005 (below)

I had a trip to Boston coming up for work and Kathy and I had planned to get together. I had recently connected with Jackie again on facebook. And it had been too long since I had seen Heidi. So we started the ball rolling. It has been almost 4 years since all four of us were together and this night, the stars aligned and the reunion happened.

These three women have been part of my life almost forever. They have seen me through the good times and bad, the rediculously funny times and moments when my heart would never seem to mend. We have all had our battles over the years some of which we were there for each other and some we sadly fought alone but when I think of my closest girlfriends from back in the day in Westerly...these are the 3 faces that pop into my head (and my heart).

I know two of these are not photos I took but it had to make the blog.

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." - Eleanor Roosevelt

8 March 2009 Photo: Getting Rusty

I have been looking for rusty things to photograph lately. Is it a sign of my age and starting to feel rusty - hmmm, I don't know? As Meg Ryan said in "When Harry Met Sally"...I'm going to be 40...SOMEDAY! And that day is not too far off.

7 March 2009 Photo(s): A Boy and His Dog

I had to make a quick trip to Westerly so that my brother could look at my car. In the short time I was down there, I took my nephew, Mason, and his dog to the beach. This was Harley's first trip to the beach and she loved running through the water and sand. The smell of the ocean and the crash of the waves makes me feel at home and it always will.

6 March 2009 Photo: Blue Skies Again

Woke up today to blue skies, warmer temperatures and birds singing. I think the end of the winter is really near now...PLEASE!

5 March 2009 Photo: Objects in the Rearview Mirror...

...may appear closer than they are! As I have mentioned before, I drive alot. I see some amazing sights while I am driving, but sometimes it is not so safe to stop and photograph them. And I can't usually get those shots going 75mph. But today there was a lovely sunset happening that I did capture in my mirror.

4 March 2009 Photo: Campus Camera

With as much time as I spend on college campuses in the Northeast, I realized that I have not take many pictures on those campuses.  As I was driving through Amherst, MA tonight after dinner, I thought this evening shot with the tree shadow was intersting.

3 March 2009 Photo: Grocery Store Wars

One of the things I like about my job is the variety of places I get to see on a daily basis.  I now have my routine depending on where I go...restaurants, free wifi locations,  and yes...even grocery stores.  We don't have Trader Joe's in Central NY so whenever I am near one I have to go and pick up some of the favorites.  While it still does not hold a candle to Wegman's, TJ's has some interesting items and really cool pictures painted on their windows like the one above!

2 March 2009 Photo: I'll Get You My Pretty

Last summer when I was in Ithaca with a friend, we came across this Flying Monkey Catapult that I just had to buy for Bill. I was playing with it earlier today and one of the monkeys landed in my jade plant and I thought it was a funny picture so it became the photo of the day. You can buy your own from the website imbedded above and we can have flying monkey wars!

1 March 2009 Photo: Leaky Pipes

We were coming home yesterday evening and luckily I spotted something strange on the side of the house. As we ran over to look at this oddity, we realized we had water leaking from the outside water spout. After we figured out how to turn the water off with the help of our neighbor Tom, I realized how interestingly the ice had formed. So this morning, when I went to check on it, I decided to use it at the photo of the day. The photo above is a close up and the one below is the big picture of the mess/beauty.