Franklin Square after Snowfall

Franklin Square after Snowfall, originally uploaded by Melsky.

Icicles and old decals

Icicles and old decals, originally uploaded by Melsky.

This is an apartment I was taking photos of for advertisement and I thought the juxtaposition between these old decals and the icicles was interesting.

These are all melted now. We have had about 12 hours of rain right now. Last night a lot of wind, the kind that's noisy and keeps me from sleeping.

Cleaning the ice

Cleaning the ice, originally uploaded by Melsky.

I went to the Clinton Square Skating Rink last weekend. I enjoyed it but the skates really hurt my ankles. I think I needed thicker socks. When we were going home I stopped to take a picture of all the skaters but they had kicked everyone off to re-surface the ice. I like this photo better than the skaters anyway.

December 28 2009 Snow

December 28 2009 Snow, originally uploaded by Melsky.

After a warm weekend we are back to snow, now that I have to drive all over Syracuse today. Why couldn't this happen on the weekend when I was staying home in front of the fire!

Seriously I like snow but it does make it very hard to drive until the roads are clear.

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.

Merry Christmas

Can you find the kitty in this photo?

Dec 23 2009 Syracuse Snow

Dec 23 2009 Syracuse Snow, originally uploaded by Melsky.

The first real storm of the season. Was not that big (ten inches total maybe) but man it was cold! This is on North Salina Street in Little Italy