Bonsai trees at the National Arboretum in DC; the second one is a mangrove tree from South America. Kelley, her mother, cousins and I went on Sunday afternoon to visit the koi and feed them, but the pellet machine was empty. We saw the azaleas in bloom– lighting up the forested hillsides like pink and… Continue reading bonsai
That is to say, it's raining today and I'm still struggling a bit. It's getting better– but how difficult, how unsatisfactory to arrive at the end of a week with so little accomplished (as compared to what one had planned to accomplish). And not for a lack of time in this case, but a (seemingly… Continue reading the deluge and a lack of ambition
Wolf on the wall Impatient for lunch! (Prince, Dad) Saturday wander, back in Bklyn– Vinegar Hill segment (Kim, brother Jon, Anders, Ben)
I am Upstate, North and West of The City; a bit south of the Great Lake known as Ontario. It has been cold at night, with sunny and brisk daytimes. Having arrived late morning on Monday, I feel as though many days have passed, and yet few. That is the way of being away, and… Continue reading compass points
In addition to an unwieldy collection of forks, I have a small collection of these old guidebooks. I first heard of them in A Room with a View, wherein intrepid traveler and lady novelist Eleanor Lavish despises both the books and the tourists who use them– proclaiming every copy should be "flung into the Arno."… Continue reading Baedeker
These are maps of upper and lower Block Island; drawings I did of our bicycle adventures when we were there for a few lovely days back in September. These were done in a small accordion-fold Moleskine, called also a Japanese album. The accordion-fold sketchbook is pretty brilliant because you can make up your layout and… Continue reading more maps
Hey Hey! Tomorrow is slated to be sixty degrees outside! So exciting. Also exciting: we've just booked our first Fire Island weekend; this time in Cherry Grove– and a whole posse of Brooklynites will be out there on the same weekend so I'm sure it will be *fun times!* Today has been the least productive… Continue reading 60º
Fire Island, that is. One full week out there and you completely forget that feeling in your lower back that arises from being in front of the computer machine all day! Alas, after a single work day, it begins to creep back up the spine. I feel fairly certain I've caught up with everything, but… Continue reading out of the fire..
the magic hour in the city of lights I realized this morning that it was time for a new background image on my monitor - something colorful --not black and white-- but not yet the greens of spring and sunshine... I landed on the dusky blues penetrated by oblongs of warmth: the magic hour in… Continue reading of magic
Today when i woke suddenly and unbidden at 7:18 there was an image in my head of the panorama of Amsterdam offered by the lounge at the 11th floor of the Modern Art Museum there. Ben and I had gone up to check out the view after our day of bicycling-exploring the nascent communities to… Continue reading morning in light
e daggar art: THE MUSEUM 