New York Fall Round Up and Almost Halloween

The artist Berch has decorated windows in Chelsea for years.

These are a few of this year's Halloween selection at the RailLine Diner.

Speaking of diners -which I love - one of my favorites is called EAT HERE NOW.

An excellent suggestion - so I did. A splendidly unhealthy lunch - but how delicious!

The diner is in the east 60's on Lexington Avenue and is slightly below street level so you see all the traffic zooming by. The waitress is from the Ukraine but looks like someone Manet painted long ago.

I do love public transportation. But you do need to be patient.

You need to be even more patient on the bus - but you do get to meet  people. This is a very chatty woman who took me for a tourist. She hoped I had a nice visit in New York and said New York people were friendly even if they didn't seem like it at first. She is the only person in the city I have seen sporting a Trump button. I did not discuss politics.

Then on to Union Square where there were.....

squash and pumpkins

 and astounding pumpkins

Here is a horse near Union Square who was having a snack.

Here is a very small cauliflower sitting for its portrait on a plate I bought in Italy in 1971.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

More Snow and then Sunshine

I'm really, really hoping these are the last snow pictures I'll bore you with this year.

Here, seen through the grubby windows of the M23 bus, are glum people trudging about as the snow falls. We had 7 inches in total.

More of the same

and then we pass the Flatiron Building.

I bought bread and salad at Eric Kayser

then missed the bus by Madison Square Park

where I spotted a cheerful red umbrella.  

In the afternoon, I spied a snow plough though the window of Tea & Sympathy

and the Joyce theater though the window of a taxi.

Lo and behold! This morning was sunny - if only 11F...

The sun was so bright window reflections appear confetti-like on opposite walls.

On the roof dead rose leaves are encased in ice.

Looking down all is crisp. I hope the sun melts some of the wretched snow and we can at last dream of spring...

42nd Street

I have been let loose with a new (free) phone app called Instagram. 

This may not be a good thing but fun anyway....

Life on the bus in late rush hour. 8th Avenue and 42nd Street. 

Not a part of town I'm often in.

42nd Street itself --so brash, glitzy and exciting.

Bryant Park behind the library

New Jersey Woods

Ah! The romance of bare branches.

Taken at noon on New Year's Day.

Wishing you all a healthy, happy and prosperous

 New Year.

My main blog is now here.

Oh,Well....

Waiting for the bus and walking the dog

are rather damp occupations lately.

This morning.

But yesterday afternoon the sky was blue

and there was a little hole in the cloud.

LilyHydrangea thinks it looks like an eye.

So then I thought of Keats:

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
    Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.......

And Hamlet to Polonious:

 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

ps. maybe I should get a day job......

pss Lala's beautiful plate post from Spain is here.

Travels by Bus

Ventured uptown to have tea on 84th Street.

The evening comes early now, so it was dark when I made the slow voyage home by bus.

If you are an idle person with time on your hands, this is an ideal form of transportation.

Lots to look at. No good at all if you are in a great hurry.

We went past Lincoln Center and the newish Time Warner Building and then headed down 7th Avenue.

Such a useful traffic jam in Times Square.

Time to look about me and goggle at all the excitement.

Lots of different faces came up in the Person of the Year frame. You can probably pay to have your face there for an instant.

We lumbered past Macy's which was twinkling like mad.

And ended up just by the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park.

Outrageous Lighting or Bloggers Evening Out/ABC

This blogger rarely goes out in the evening.
But when she is invited to join Alexa and Lori and Ming in welcoming Eric, of Paris Daily Photo, to New York, she manages to take the bus up 23rd Street to Broadway.



Pipa, on 19th Street, has an amazing number of chandeliers - you can buy them or merely enjoy them.
Ming has a much better picture.



The affects of light are very pretty.
The sangria delicious.
The company delightful.
We talked about healthcare and politics.........and Paris.



On the way out, I look back into the restaurant.
Always rather fun - being outside gazing in.



The first very cold, wet, windy night.
I give up and take a taxi home.

Shadow Shot Sunday/

This almost Halloweeny image was shot in an uncleaned-up doorway in the nowadays rather upmarket Meatpacking district.
I'm not quite sure what it is.



No one looks cheerful on the cross town bus - even though there are charming reflections on the ceiling.


I honestly can't remember where this is probably somewhere between 7th and 6th Avenue - but it could be anywhere on a sunny morning.



The sun hits an entryway and casts a purple tinge on the floor.

London as a Tourist

This is also for Mrs.Nesbitt's ABC Wednesday.
See side bar for link.



I much prefer buses to the tube. You get to see lots more things.
I enjoyed being a tourist and going round Trafalgar Square.



The lion looks very noble.



I had fun taking pictures of Susanna's winged message.



This Charing Cross station.



Fall/autumn is here.

Trees in Winter

Bare winter trees from the bus between Manhattan and Tappan.



these next two were taken on the beach in Morocco - the water was withdrawing through darker sand.



Exactly like a forest in winter I thought.



The bare trees in Central Park are lovely against the sky.