Post Thanksgiving and a Winner

After all the eating, time to get up early

and walk down the High Line when no one was there! 

 To look at the grasses

and berries

and then have a go at the leftover roasted veggies.

The next day we go on an adventure by subway

and ferry.

We see The Statue of Liberty (photo by Gretchen!)

We see container boats

and even the Queen Mary.

Time for a Famous Nathan's hot dog.

Some one eating in the diner has already taken out the Santa hat!

And so the season turns.

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A Round Up of Trivia on Columbus Day

First a photograph without a single leaf in it. Quintessentially New York - a  brilliant blue sky without a cloud in it. I think the grim looking buildings on the lower left are going to be either demolished (probably) or else refurbished. So much building going on all over the place - here on 7th Avenue. 

Seasonal thoughts... dahlia perfection

heirloom tomatoes looking picturesque

a winesap - with leaf...

moonflower pods on the roof

the beginning of berries.

The macaroon shop on 23rd Street is thinking about Halloween - the skeleton looking cadaverously chic.

We walked to the Ear Inn yesterday

one of my husband's favorite places. A man at the bar kept trying to make conversation with the taciturn bar man - kept asking if there were ghosts in the very old building. The barman finally said that there were odd things but did not elaborate. Was he just trying to please his customer? 

Anyway, the light was falling slantwise making the things on the tablecloth resemble things we painted in art school.

Monochrome and yet not monochrome - a puzzle to be solved.

On the way home we walked in St Luke's garden on Hudson Street and saw

a vast fall of Michaelmas daisies.

This last photo was taken in my friend Margaret's place - the very antithesis of the little jug picture above - and how nice to like both charming clutter and simplicity at the same time...

Things that Go

A rather usual sort of day..... subway downtown.

A walk in the new park at the end of 23rd Street

and a visit to the Museum of the American Indian in the former custom house at One Bowling Green which used to be a custom house. Here a mural makes the Hudson look much busier than it does today.

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Spring on 21st Street

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The Day After Christmas

Wet but not cold.

The snow melting rapidly.

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Busy

Friday: 9th Avenue and 23rd St.

A field trip

14th St and 9th Avenue.

The vendor was originally from Egypt.

9th Avenue and 23rd Street

same

It was very hot and sticky.

Wednesday

Morning: Skateboard kidz act cool on 23rd Street.

Afternoon: A little bird cheeps on 22nd Street. Paz take note.

Evening: Looking down from the High Line.

Such long shadows.

More of the same.

 By  happy chance we ran into BonBonOiseau

and talked about Morocco.

Night. Same place.

 

Keeping Busy

These men have escaped from one of Robert's paintings.
(cut out paper propped on the window )

This wire man walks round a shelf near the ceiling.

He once had an umbrella drink.

Courtesy of Bobby Schmid

This singer plays funky blues every day.

Corner of 23rd St and 7th Avenue.

The snacks from the independent film aren't so good

as the ones provided by Law and Order. Oh, well.

In the Meatpacking District men with a message.

It's graduation season.

Daryl Fashionista visits the High Line and poses in

front of the amazing stained glass.

Celebrity Sightings

Michael Bloomberg outside Clement Moore Park.

 

Andre the Giant on 20th Street.

Wet

Blazing June! Hah!

The man going to work is wet.

The dog is wet.

So are the leaves.

A dry patch under a building's canopy.