More of the Same...

Still cold - well,  it's winter.
But so cold you don't want to go out and do anything, and assume your friends don't want to do anything either...so you stay home and think of all the things you could be doing...

People tramp around being miserable...

and try to cover up every inch of skin. I want a ski mask so I can dress up as a bank robber...

Pinwheel Park is deserted.

Citrus fruit looks extra zingy

and can be photographed at home.

We went to Long Island on Monday when it rained and rained and the garden became a giant puddle but the snow and ice lingered...
Not much snow left today but only 24 degrees F at almost eleven in the morning.
However, we could be somewhere where it is minus whatever....so I'd better stop complaining!

Urban

New York's a town of neutral tones: the buildings, white, gray, brown, tan. 

 People's clothing tends to be neutral too

so the bling-bling colors of graffiti (suitably placed) are rather fun.

(Here outside a club on 22nd St)

I like the layer upon layer, ripped paper, revealing stuff underneath.

 I enjoy the sort of free-for-all-ness of it.

What bubble-gum colors!

An ephemeral art.

Wandering

If you have a dog you end up having to go out in all weathers.

This is good and bad -- at the moment mostly bad.
Here a tangle of bicycles on 8th Avenue.

And a reflection of the same.

This morning the sun, at 8 o'clock, hid behind a water tower.






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Bling

Coming out of the Lincoln Tunnel, heading towards the bus terminal ...

the low hedge glows with little lights

Santa and his crew surround a window drawings of the German church on 22nd Street.

More is definitely more upon more in the Golden Dolphin diner in Huntington LI

No holds barred in the grand lobby of Radio City Music Hall.

 

The young are attracted to bright colors

 

while world-weary subway riders prefer to keep it restrained.

Merry Christmas

Bloggers Unite

A sultry Sunday afternoon.
A good excuse to meet bloggers in the real world. Here we all are at Le Pain Quotidien in ABC Carpet - where I'm sure lots of the salads have arugala in them. We make friends immediately.
Ming the Merciless (who sounds terrifying but, in fact, is very charming) organized the little get together.
What unites us is that we love blogging and are unabashedly liberal. This blog is not about politics at all, but I really enjoy one of our number's thepalinator.blogspot.com



After lunch what would be better than a 'little lie-down'? Here is the fainting couch all ready in ABC window.
A question, if this couch was actually in my house would I be able to resist the urge to get it properly upholstered? Looks very artistic in its current state. A close up shows the amazing pillows.



Tea sets to remind me of Morocco...............



As an anti-climax I go home on the bus - my favorite mode of NYC transportation.
In blogging mode, I cannot resist taking a picture at the bus stop. (Corner of 23rd Street and 5th Avenue.)

Bloggers at the lunch included:
Ming ( as above)
Lisa of Gramercycafe.blogspot.com
Alexa of theroadismine.blogspot.com
Chuck Pefley who had flown in from Seattle
Eliane of nyc-daily-photo.com
Lori of MissBinnyc.blogspot.com