A Walk in the Park

On Tuesday I went for a wonderful walk in Central Park with Frances of CityViews/ CountryDreams.

Lovely to see the mist of unfolding leaves - so delicately overarching.

Lots of people out and about enjoying the day.

Blossoms unfolding too

and delighting the eye.

A birthday salute to Wm. Shakespeare!

What a blessing Central Park is!

How picturesque

and how pretty!

Thinking of Spring

At Union Square the twigs are twisting

and the pussy-willow

 is enchanting.

The trees are thickening and budding.

On Long Island, the young ones are set to work digging

and the skies are brilliant bright in the city.

On the High Line crews are cutting back winter’s dead growth - observed from above by a rather languid maiden.

At home, daffs are picturesque

as are tulips.

At the diner on the corner Mr. Beady-Eyes tells us he’s thinking of hopping.

Today it’s pouring with rain, of course

But tomorrow I start planting the tree pits.

Happy Spring!

Endless Winter

We returned from our wonderful trip to discover

that there is still snow all over the place.

The eggs arrived cracked

the cyclamen is hanging in there in a miserable sort of way. The winter has rendered even the most relentlessly cheerful people borderline grumpy and there is a sort of malaise that afflicts us all - everything seems three times the effort usually required. 

However, we went and hung out at Veselka the Ukranian diner

which has wonderful food (including Obalong Beer)

and lots of necessary desserts.

It was bright but horribly cold walking home via Union Square. What can this man possibly be thinking sitting there?

One evening we went to the King Cole Bar at the St.Regis to see the Maxfield Parrish mural which was wonderfully weird. (The drinks were good too.) 

A rather bad weird photo in a friend's apartment uptown.

Anyway, it is now March and we had a dusting of snow yesterday, so I was forced to buy

a tiny bit of spring.

Keep warm!

Blue Skies

Everything seems extra bright.

New blossoms on the trees, a new building on the corner of 25th Street and 9th Avenue

 everything growing and growing apace. What energy!

Beautification

                              Where a tree once was 22nd Street

Spring brings with it a great urge to improve and prettify things. An excellent idea. Some people do indoor projects like putting in new carpets or recessed lighting  or things like that. Other than ordering some Le Crueset cooking stuff (for when I feel ambitiously domestic) my thoughts turn to outdoors. Since I don't have a garden I long to take over a little plot of something outside and adopt it in a sort of guerilla gardener sort of way......

....just as Luis Lujan has done on the corner of 25th Streetand 9th Avenue. Petunias rule! I look forward to following his project. Buster is pretty impressed too!

This morning I met Shin Shin from California who pastes huge photos

 of fruit from her garden onto other graffiti. She wants to make things a great deal prettier.....

                              22nd St. between 10th and 11th Avenues.

.... and somehow succeeds.

The new park at the  west end of 23rd Street now has a carousel 

with lovely decorated creatures to ride on. A great hit on a late spring Sunday. 

Spring at Last

Warm enough to drag the leather sofa outside  and to sit in the sun in a short sleeved shirt. 

Cell phone a necessary accessory.

White blossoms and bare branches at the same time

any moment the leaves will unfurl.
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Haiku Festival

Go to PinkPurl for more poets and then visit the list below...

If you want to join in, please do!

the bench: secluded

the carpet: marsh marigolds

is this bliss enough?

Please visit the blogs below for more celebrations in haiku:

1. BeeDrunken , England
2. Tracy Pinkpurl, from Norway
3. Paz's New York Minute, USA
4. WillowManor,USA
5. Merisi, Austria
6. Rochambeau, USA
7. HighDesertDiva,USA
8. HeyHarriet, Australia
9. Rodrigvitzstyle, USA
10. M.Gosden, USA
11. Artsortments, USA
12. A Thousand ClappingHands, USA
13. FrenchFancy, France
14. WillowsCottage, USA
16. Eb Elizabeth Bunsen, USA
17. PoetiKat, Canada
19. Jennifer, USA
20. Pat, Mille Fiore Favoriti,USA
21. Tessa, England
22. Denizblog, USA
23. Isabel, USA
25. ButternutSquash, USA
26. Critters'nsuch, USA
27. Magpie, USA

29. Polly, England.

30. The Qi Papers, USA

31.  ArtIt, USA

32. TheLeener, USA

33. Marinela, USA

34. Daughter of the Golden West, USA

35. Dodadidit, UK

36. Crisfieldnews, USA

37. Small Reflections, USA

40. Dale Australia

41. Shell, USA

42. Lea Lea Labyrinth,USA

43. Helen, USA

44. Mim, USA

45.Sue of Magic Armchair Traveler, UK

Orange and Green/Shadow Shot Sunday

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For some reason lots of my recent photos have orange and green in.

Here a vast truck on 21st Street.

A hedge by a little cafe on 9th Avenue.

A beech tree's very tender almost pink leaves above pachysandra.

A reminder that Mother's Day is next weekend in the US. 

The Moonstruck Diner on the Corner of 9th Av and 23rd Street.

Below the house of my dreams on 21st Street.