tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44815104135504601572024-03-13T16:42:11.216-04:00About New Yorkand sometimes other placesElizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03964291132366262298noreply@blogger.comBlogger980125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481510413550460157.post-90268358522507905292018-12-02T08:55:00.000-05:002018-12-02T08:55:27.463-05:00Winter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rather fun collecting little bits of dried up stuff from the ground</div>
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and my son's yard and photographing them</div>
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against an old cookie tray.</div>
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Some leaves are stubbornly hanging on to the trees.</div>
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Near Union Square Christmas lights entwine with last leaves.</div>
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A portrait of an apple</div>
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Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03964291132366262298noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4481510413550460157.post-57585401650205489932018-04-07T11:36:00.000-04:002018-04-07T11:36:22.484-04:00Not Spring Yet...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hideous weather</div>
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However, some charming snowdrops on Long Island</div>
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a wonderful Grant Wood show at The Whitney</div>
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best public exhibition I have been to in ages</div>
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even when he is at his most depressing.</div>
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at the <a href="http://davidlewisgallery.com/artists/lucy-dodd/">David Lewis Gallery</a>. I have known Lucy since before she was born. </div>
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A pistachio eclair for Frances and a brioche for me.</div>
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On a wet day Eisenburg's Sandwich Shop</div>
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Toasted bagel and bacon.</div>
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Pickles and a BLT.</div>
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Six more weeks of winter - and it's still bitter cold.</div>
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Madison Square Park is bright and chilly</div>
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But Eric Kayser serves hot tea and gives you a little tiny financier in your saucer.</div>
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Another day I repair to the flower district</div>
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I go home and make sketches and start on a new tapestry design having stocked up on colored wools.<br />
I'm reading Agnes Jeykll's <i>Kitchen Essays</i> from 1922 which summon up a lost world and have just finished Diana Holman-Hunt's delightfully batty memoir<i> My Grandmothers and I</i> from 1960.<br />
Only six more weeks.....<br />
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Labor Day....</div>
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And walking in Central Park where there were a large number of rats in The Ramble. Pied Piper needed soonest.</div>
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And very hot indeed - in the 90’s today. On Friday we sat up on the roof.</div>
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Today I walked up to Union Square where they were having some sort of promotion for Air France and the young girls were looking terrifyingly chic.</div>
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The other day when my friend Jo was visiting from out of town, we had lunch at ABC Carpet, a most wonderful shop where they have lovely little flower arrangements all over the place.</div>
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This last photo is of a little ant who came downstairs with me from the roof where the nasturtiums and lavender are flowering.</div>
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On Tuesday I went for a wonderful walk in Central Park with Frances of <a href="http://cityviewscountrydreams.blogspot.com/">CityViews/ CountryDreams</a>.</div>
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The trees are thickening and budding.</div>
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A brand new building on 42nd Street called MiMA the venue of a<a href="http://saatchiart.com/robertschmid"> Saatchi art</a> show that <a href="http://robertschmid.com/">Robert </a>was in. Fabulous views over the Hudson to New Jersey - with the Intrepid on the right.</div>
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In the depths of winter, vegetables, like people, get chilly.</div>
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My little book available here.....<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Summer-Stories-Village-Flower/dp/1539654478/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480619675&sr=1-2&keywords=elizabeth+wix+two+summer+stories">https://www.amazon.com/Two-Summer-Stories-Village-Flower/dp/1539654478/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480619675&sr=1-2&keywords=elizabeth+wix+two+summer+stories</a></div>
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My latest little children's book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Summer-Stories-Village-Flower/dp/1539654478/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480619675&sr=1-2&keywords=elizabeth+wix+two+summer+stories">TWO SUMMER STORIES</a> is finally available from Amazon - just in time for the holidays! In the US<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Summer-Stories-Village-Flower/dp/1539654478/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480619675&sr=1-2&keywords=elizabeth+wix+two+summer+stories"> here</a> and in the UK<b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Two-Summer-Stories-Village-Flower/dp/1539654478/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480605705&sr=1-2-fkmr0&keywords=to+summer+stories+elizabeth+wix"> here</a> .</b></div>
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I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Though aimed at 8-12 year old readers, it's also a memoir of growing up in England in the 1950's and full of history and adventures and family and may well appeal to grownups of my generation.</div>
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I've also re-editied the two first stories <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Jane-Winter-Essex-Serpent-Traditional/dp/1540363996/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1480605394&sr=1-6&keywords=Jane+in+Winter+paperback">Jane in Winter and Jane and the Essex Serpent</a>. Jane in Winter is especially Christmassy - at the end. </div>
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So, as always much going on in New York as we prepare for Thanksgiving.</div>
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The very last leaves on the trees on 5th Avenue</div>
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I was chatting with the workmen who seemed very cheerful.</div>
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And this year's discovery HoneyNut Squash - as against HoneyNut Cheerios.</div>
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And now for the<span style="color: #93c47d; font-size: large;"> $50 Giveaway</span> from<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.novica.com/"> <b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Novica.</span></b> </a></span>This is a company I have supported for many years - their lovely unusual gift and crafts come from all over the world. I especially love their silk scarves and unusual Thai paper goods. So go to their website and then write a comment here and I'll pick a lucky winner at random on Wednesday. </div>
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Robert and me a couple of years ago.</div>
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My current crop of hats for tinies not earmarked for anyone in particular. I always use pure wool. Mostly cashmere and baby alpaca so super soft - but have to be hand-washed which is a bit time-consuming.</div>
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These are a few of this year's Halloween selection at the RailLine Diner.</div>
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An excellent suggestion - so I did. A splendidly unhealthy lunch - but how delicious!</div>
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Time to revamp the tree pits. They are necessarily filled with annuals - tweaked during the various seasons. The tulips have been removed, the pansies struggle on - the ones that didn't get aphids. Blue and white salvias have been added - and, lo and behold, a sunflower seems to have appeared. Volunteers welcomed.</div>
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This is the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tansy">tansy</a> that ate Cleveland. I fear it is rather a horrid plant. Do check the link. I bought a little one at a green market last summer because I had heard the name but never grown one. It survived over the winter on the roof - I moved it to a friend's terrace where it took over a rather large planter. I decided to put it out on the street. It grows about three inches a day...</div>
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The lavender is blooming on the common roof terrace. I'm not thrilled with potato vines but another of the garden committee members is. That's the trouble with a committee - you have to be democratic and humor other people.</div>
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And now at Union Square -peonies!</div>
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To be honest, I'm not a very good shopper. I like looking at things rather than buying them.<br />
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When I go to London, I always visit Liberty's to look at all the things I can't afford and admire the architecture. I worked in their bookshop in the summer of 1972!</div>
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Such a splendid staircase</div>
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I did buy four books at the Persephone bookshop which is exactly where I would like to work now - if I lived in London. Actually, I want to buy<i> all </i>the books - first for the content and second for their looks. I recommend <i>The Village</i> by Margarita Laski - a very clear-eyed look at a small village post World War Two.</div>
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This is a bookshop in Lewes which was fortunately closed - thus saving me the trouble of carting assorted tempting retro books across the Atlantic.</div>
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This is the gift shop at Charleston farmhouse where one can stock up on Bloomsbury related reading matter - of which there is a great deal. I bought a very small coaster as a present for a friend.</div>
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This alarming shop in Berwick Street, Soho, was barred to prevent the clothes escaping to threaten us with the 1960's and the horrid odor of patchouli. </div>
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How I admire the Queen for her resolve and endurance. Here she is on a biscuit tin. Lots of Queen's 90th birthday memorabilia.</div>
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Claudia and I made the awful mistake of going to Harrods where I hadn't been in many many years. (I worked in their bookshop in the summer of 1970). The lovely tiles were still there in the food halls. The rest of the shop was much altered. Bought some Charbonel & Walker chocolates as a present for a friend from a very sweet girl who gave us free samples of other choices. </div>
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Total haul of London shopping: children's clothing and four books.... </div>
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I'm afraid I have become rather neglectful of this blog since I'm really having more fun with Instagram -where I'm Biffwix (my childhood nickname).</div>
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Here a young man is being instructed in the tricky art of poster hanging. An elegant process - best done very swiftly like watercolor painting. Looks easy but it isn't!</div>
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Delivering scaffolding near the car wash seen below.</div>
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Quintessentially New York colors - harsh and bright.</div>
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Gosh, what a lot of building round here. This near the new 7 line subway stop at Hudson Yards taken on a very brisk, cold day.</div>
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Here the police chatting and drinking coffee on Penn Station. There are always lots of policemen there and soldiers (of both sexes) and also State Troopers with their strange hats. I asked my husband if there are women State Troopers and he said there were though I have never seen one.</div>
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Ah! Spring in the city. Here blossoms on our roof...</div>
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Pigeons in the almost budding trees in Penn South...</div>
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And, yesterday, real leaves unfolding on the climbing hydrangea at the mysterious house on 21st Street that I dream of living in one day.</div>
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How everything is wonderfully combined inVivian Swift's new book coming out on March 1st. </div>
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Mine arrived in the mail last week because I'm mentioned in the acknowledgements (so is Buster!).</div>
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What an enviable gig - traveling and looking at gardens and writing about them too! Not to mention the hard work of painting them then editing text and so forth.</div>
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I think this book would be a lovely present for anyone who likes any of the things mentioned in my first sentence.</div>
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Maybe spring will eventually get to New York - meanwhile I'm reading!</div>
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We walked down The High Line to the new Whitney Museum on Wednesday. It has been open since last April and really it was pretty lazy of us not to have got there before.</div>
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Dramatic but dull views over the Hudson from the stunning building.</div>
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Inside lots of old favorites like Reginald Marsh's drunken sailors and good time girls.</div>
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Lots of newer things which make me glad I no longer write art reviews. The interior spaces are gorgeous and cathedral-like.</div>
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Dark clothes look rather good with all the white walls and plain floors.</div>
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The balls on the Christmas tree thing reflected the people. The white part looked like plastic insulation stuff.</div>
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So much to look at!</div>
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The painting <a href="http://robertschmid.com/">Robert</a> liked best.</div>
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A door to a terrace where you can look down on Gaansevort Street.</div>
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On Thursday we continued doing art type things.</div>
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This last photo taken without filter the other day at dusk. I'm rather pleased with it!</div>
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