Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

There is still snow to be seen around Syracuse -- not blanketing the ground, but large piles where snowplows deposited them over the course of winter, and we're supposed to get a little more snow this weekend in what will probably be the last blast of wintry weather for this season. With all the melting snow, waterways are up and the ground is very soft and, in most places, muddy; the grass has barely begun to move from "earth-tones" into the "greens".

In other words, it's time for the obsessive golfers to start wading through the quagmire golf course across the street.