Ellie B and I wound around these Syracuse pines today.

Three days ’til spring.

I can’t tell who’s getting more antsy for winter to leave, Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle or this guy on the holding end of the leash.

With the temperature creeping up — I can’t believe weather sites say it’s 31 degrees right now in Syracuse, N.Y., because it feels at least 10 degrees warmer — and the sun out in full, the dog and the dad took a slightly longer route through the streets of our city neighborhood.

We have a hundred combinations of streets and short-cuts, at least. Each delivers its own unique good vibrations.

Today’s journey took us on a service road behind an apartment complex.

We both like the line of impressive pine trees that flank one side of the path, as you can see above.

And what, you might ask, sat just…