Lori's Garden

Spring unfurls at the Jarvis House

in Huntington, Long Island.

I've known this garden for over thirty years - a perennial delight both literally and metaphorically. Marsh marigolds and periwinkle and bleeding heart...

and more bleeding heart and tulips and hosta.

The hydrangeas by the old barn put out new growth.

Sunlight, dappled...

and more of the same.

Barn red and

as many watering cans as you could possibly need. 

Late daffodils.

Our sprout on third base. Another spring rite of passage.

Blue Skies

At last!

Warm enough to be outdoors.

To head to the lower East Side...

not my usual stamping ground.

Anyway, I'm totally mesmerized by the sky.

Not quite warm enough to eat outside, though some people did.

A favorite diner with turkey sandwiches

and pierogi.

Took a cab home - though, sadly, not this one.

In the afternoon, I spotted three chums on a bench looking oddly like triplets.

Happy Easter

Easter morning and the trees are in bloom by the SVA Theater

22nd Street looks nice and bright.

Outside the deli all spring is on sale - the lilies

and lilac

and hyacinth.

On 22nd Street the brownstones look red

even the scruffy tree pit looks springlike.

On 8th Avenue the florist will open soon.

At home tulips from Trader Joe's.

Happy Easter!

Happy Spring!

The Miserable Persistence of Winter

Yesterday afternoon was cloudy

then a horrible rainstorm ripped the petals off the tulips and beat down the daffodils.

Overnight it snowed.

The purple ectoplasm is a red coleus indoors.

When I ventured out with the dog this morning, it was 32'F. The pansies were surrounded by ice granules.

Breakfast was baked oatmeal with almonds.

The tulips look cheery at least.

At 11am it is 40'f - but bright....

Gosh, just looked at my Blogger dashboard to discover this is post #900....

Much Improved

I am happy to report that spring might  - finally - be making some tentative advances towards New York.

A rather promising dawn...

a bright noon

buds breaking into bloom.

Anemones remind me of February somehow but I bought some at Union Square.

There were pansies galore

and tulips to lust after.

These were my favorites.

April Fool's A Day Early

On Mondays we often go out to Long Island by train. There was no snow in the city

but by the time we got to New Hyde Park the platforms were covered.

By Westbury it was worse.

Near Cold Spring Harbor it was really very pretty.

This color photo of my son's backyard has no fancy filters though it looks very monochrome.

Yesterday, April 1st was sunny at last.  I think everyone is getting bored of The-Winter-which-never-

Ends....

Artsy Queens on a Friday Evening

The end of the week

time to escape from Manhattan 

on the 7 train.

Queens has lots of graffiti

and lots of industrial buildings being 're-purposed'. 

PS1 a mecca for the hip and anyone interested in modern art (a great deal more modern than the actual MoMA.)

At Deniz's apartment I take photos of Lucy who is white

the artsy Hipstamatic filter turns her yellow.

We eat a yummy supper at La Flor under the elevated bit of the subway with a Hopperesque view across the street.

Weather update: After the unrelenting cold, we have torrential rain!