Meatpacking District

I don't think they were invited to the wedding

  

although they were all dressed up

 and obviously off somewhere

wonderful

Books for Children Run Amok Downtown

ps. these windows weren't really anything to do with children's books......

they just looked like them....sort of......

Alice wears a chic black dress and a blank expression.

But shouldn't she be playing in a garden?

Can't which book exactly-- but surely if they added a beret

this would be the costume of M. Le French Artist circa 1953.

Has Babar turned green and moved to the the

Meatpacking district from Celesteville?

Witches, of course, are never fat in fairy tales.

That's why they are so eager to devour children.

In the grown-up world things are different.

(See below.)

Pigs Want to Go Shopping

Hi porkers -down in the Meat-Packing District.

I am learning to make the pictures bigger. Maybe.

Buster's blog here

Shadow Shot Sunday

R's photo taken on 23rd Street.

Please go to Heyharriet for the complete list of Shadow Shotters

Light shining through a roof in the Meatpacking District.

This was taken last Sunday. We have had two going-for-walks weekends in a row.

Yesterday. Spring Street, Soho. This is an homage de Paz. She is the queen of fire escape art.

I get a bit bored of double reflections all over.... but at least they make shadows...this is rather a swanky place in Soho with distressed metal and indoor moss etc etc. I liked it.

When you look into a window, your brain compensates for reflections and distractions and sees only one thing. A camera acts differently. How tiring it would be to see two things at once.

The Letter A

Cait O'Conn0r recently did a wonderful, rich and lovely post about the letter P. 

She sent me the letter A.

So here is an Alien up high in the Meatpacking District.

And the Ear, a bar on Spring Street, where alcohol is served.

This is a poster and an awful warning seen in the same place.

An abundance of architecture around here. A crane on 5th Avenue.

Walking back from the bar, we came upon this shop on Hudson Street.

Robert said he had an automobile just like this a long time ago.

We discover it isn't an ordinary toy shop but one for animals.

I like playing games.

Cait talked about both good and bad P words.

Herewith some good and bad A ones.

Bad

agony

abandon

anguish

anxiety and its cousin angst

ambition

Good

austere

affable

apples

animals

Arezzo

amaranth

ps. Let me know if you'd like me to choose a letter for you.

Ambiguous Night/Shadow Shot Sunday

Shadow Shot Sunday is hosted by the energetic and thoughtful Tracy of Heyharriet.

Go here to see more exciting shadowshots from the loyal participants.

Lo and behold the Meatpacking District is now trendy but retains a little of its original grittiness.

However it has been taken over by hardbodies and people who loom godlike above us.

What fun it is to survey the world from above.

I stole this last picture from R. 

Meatpacking District

Heading down 9th Avenue on an absurdly warm evening.

December 28th and people are wearing sweaters.

The Gansevoort Hotel has a very Wallpaper moderne lobby. Hugely high ceilings and a great deal of pink.

Even the elevator is cool and I'm suitable impressed.

They put Claudia's name on her bathrobe. A perk you do not get at home.

From the Sky bar you look south down on a building whose facade is lit in different colors.

They change every few minutes.