Splashing about in the massive fountains at the base the Unisphere in the World's Fairgrounds in Queens. After a Mets game at Citi Field yesterday (they won!), Steve, Ben and I headed over to the Queens museum of Art to view the panorama of New York City, and just outside the museum resides the Unisphere,… Continue reading A respite from the heat of an August afternoon
Two Fridays ago, Kim and I trained out to Coney. It was her birthday, and though we got a late start due to other obligations, had a fantastic few hours on the beach; A perfect swimming day. When we came out of the subway station, we were delighted to see a most amazing and wonderful… Continue reading an afternoon in Coney
Here are two stills from some video I shot at the New York Aquarium on Friday afternoon. Though I've been to Coney Island many, many times, I'd never gone to the Aquarium before. Small though it may be, it was a delightful place to visit (not least because of the great blubbering walruses which we… Continue reading How can these be real?
Below are a very, very few selects from the photographs I took during our recent trip to New Orleans. I will be adding a rather large amount to my Flickr page soon, but for now... (see link under the third photo for more) UPDATE: There are loads of images on flickr now– click HERE to… Continue reading A smattering of New Orleans selects
Looking out through plant leaves at the snow accumulating A man hunched against the wind and snow, crossing the street on 5th Avenue A car slowly blanketed by accumulation The streets are uncommonly deserted in midday along the avenue Even with it so bright outside, the apartment gets dark with snow build-up, as the skylights… Continue reading Snow Day!
We saw this pixie in Central Park on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a day of beautiful sunshine and mild weather. Days have been darker since then and the winter weather has begun, sort of. (Well, it isn't 65º anymore, anyway.) Dreams have been dark of late as well, full of doubles, doppelgangers and floods.
The warm glow of Char No. 4, affectionately known (by me) as "Pork and Bourbon" Day One Ben's birthday was Saturday. As he'd been under the weather much of the week, we'd made no plans, but Saturday began warm and balmy, and he was feeling much better, so we decided to embark on a wander.… Continue reading Two days of wandering, eating, drinking
TL and Kim traverse a parking lot of leaves after the hike. I think this was the smallest cabin trip since the first (which was only TL and Leddy, in a tent with their heavily-laden bikes in the rain). Sabine was meant to be there as well but at the last had a rush at… Continue reading A trip to the woods
This is the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Beacon, NY– number 666. Satanic! We stopped in Beacon for lunch on the way back to the city. Had lunch at the Piggy Bank.
Threatening skies over Citifield A diner in sodden Willets Point The lights as we wait for a table in Joe's Shanghai These are from Saturday (Oct 3)– the rest of them (and more photos from Fire Island) are finally up at my flickr page.
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