Bagels and Oranges

Bagels and cream cheese. The ideal New York lunch on a dreary, wet day.

The Brooklyn Bagel Company on 23rd Street has enormous bagels.

They are hot and delicious.

You can slice them into three bits.

The shop is fairly new and all the people who work there are cheerful. 

To my mind, the best bagels in Chelsea.

Can you guess I like lox (smoked salmon), or lox spread?

 Just add a squeeze of lemon juice and coarsely ground black pepper. 

Walking home, my mind full of salmon -- to make a contrast with the weather --I spy

 the meter-maid's raincoat...

and the bin with the give away paper.

Headline: Urban gardens grow

fed by lean economy.

Sounds good to me.

Orange/Queens

Having said I didn't like orange, I have to admit it has a certain in-you-face charm.



We went to Queens by subway yesterday to look at stone for a counter top.
Needless to say, the seats were orange.



In fact the whole subway experience was orange.



When we eventually found the marble/granite warehouse we noticed a whole list of safety regulations on the walls. For example: no open toed shoes/safety goggles at all times. These were completely ignored. Obviously, we were not crushed to a soggy pulp, though it was an ever present possibility.
Having escaped death, we needed lunch. Queens has amazing ethic possibilities. We checked out the Czech place (pun.hahha) since R's heritage is Czech and we have never been there. The pink wall was attractive but the lunch choices very heavy for a hot day.
In the winter perhaps?
Since we were in Astoria we had Greek stuff instead.



Getting back to Chelsea on the subway meant a change at 42nd Street and a fairly long underground (beastly hot) hike.
However, this was enlivened by mosaic murals.
I was especially taken by the attentive dog in this one.



Here they are doing something constructive but some how the man in the middle looks as if he is using crutches.

Shadow Shot Sunday/24th Street

See Hey Harriet for other participants.

In order for construction debris not to fall on your head, they now put up swathes of this orange netting.
It looks rather glamorous in the sunlight.
This particular bit is outside Whole Foods on the corner of 7th Avenue and 24th Street.
Whole Foods is an excellent shop, but it is not cheap. Sometimes referred to as Whole Paycheck. Haha.



Orange is not my favorite color, but I'll have to get used to it since some shops have Halloween stuff in already, and I saw orange squash in the fields at the other end of Long Island.



Away from the orange the street is silvery gray.
They were cleaning the windows of the high school in anticipation of school opening on Tuesday.



A typical late summer scene.
How we savor these last days of summer.