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.

Bryant Park and the New York Public Library

New York looks very gray here.
Hiding behind the trees is the Chryselr Building. No more Empire State Building pictures!
Bryant Park is very civilized these days - but chilly.



Yesterday was the first time I ever went into the New York Public library -well the main branch.
It is most impressive and large and bold.



Monumental almost.
I was terrifically impressed by the lights, the long hallways.
The gift shop.
The John Milton Exhibition.



Like Grant's Tomb (more of that in another blog) everything was oversized and heavily elegant.



After lunch L. and I had been to the Maplethorpe exhibition at the International Photography Center.
Perhaps this shot of one of the Public Library's lion's posterior reflects too much Maplethorpe........

Looking out of the Window

No landscape to record here so have fun trying to capture the lights with my miserable camera.



This is looking along 24th Street.



This is looking along 24th Street towards 9th Avenue.



So is this.


This is a really odd/bad photo. Have to go out and take some better ones.