Cool old building on Salina Street, Syracuse

Cool old building on Salina Street, Syracuse, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is an old Italian food store, closed for a long time on the bottom and probably apartments on the top. This is one of my favorite buildings in Little Italy, I love the deorations on it and the faux balcony and the way it's so tall and thin, sandwiched between those two other buildings.

The window of my office on Salina Street

The window of my office
Originally uploaded by Melsky

This is a Maneki Neko, a cat that brings good fortune by waving it into your business. This one is actually animated! You can see the snow falling in the reflection too. We had a snowstorm a couple of days before christmas and it was really cold, but it started raining on christmas night and now a few days after christmas it's sunny and warm with blue skies.

I have not been writing much in my blog lately. I get busy at work and then I'm writing descriptions of rental properties and putting them on a web page. By the time I'm done with all that stuff sitting down at the computer and putting up photos and writing about them doesn't sound very appealing!

I have been taking photos a lot though. I'm going to be putting up my backlog of photos this week, though they are not too seasonal - fall foliage anyone?

And I am determined to write in my blog a bit more.