Sunday, May 31, 2015

Shadow Shot Sunday


I had a "summer Friday" this past Tuesday,
and was waiting when they unlocked 
the gate to the garden.  What a rare treat to
have the place almost entirely to myself!

[To see more Sunday shadows, go here.]

Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Weekend in Black and White


I guess if you saved your corks
for years and years and years . . .
(though in the case of this restaurant,
 it probably only took a few months).

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Friday, May 29, 2015

Weekend Reflections


Everything about the Petit Palais,
in Paris, is beautiful—from the ceilings . . .


right down to the floors.

[To see more Weekend Reflections,
visit James's meme.]

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Thursday Challenge—"fun"


Water + small child + large frisky dog + frisbee = fun?


To be honest, the small child wasn't 100%

comfortable with the large frisky dog.  However,
the large frisky dog was having a blast! 

[To see more of the Thursday Photo
Challenge, visit Dale's meme.]

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

ABC Wednesday—T is for "tools of the trade"


. . . and also for "talented."  These tools belong
to my favorite young Hungarian artist,
Maté Orr, whom I've featured before.
This is what he was working on when
we visited his studio
 last September.

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

A room with a view


It's the Appel Room, one of the spaces at
Jazz at Lincoln Center—where the view isn't even
the point, just a bonus to enjoy while you
listen to some wonderful live music.

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.]

Monday, May 25, 2015

Monday Mellow Yellows

I saw these guys entertaining the crowd
in front of the Plaza Hotel (or
condo or co-op or whatever it is now).
Hope all of you here in the States are having
a sunny Memorial Day weekend.

[To see more Monday Mellow Yellows, go here.]


Sunday, May 24, 2015

inSPIREd Sunday


This is St. Thomas Episcopal Church,
and I was pretty much the only
person in here on a recent Friday evening.
That's most likely because everyone else
was down the street at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
(However, they probably get a few butts in the seats

when its world-famous boys' choir is singing.)

[To see more churches from around the world, go here.] 

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Women are from Venice; men are from Detroit


What she reads for fun: high-end travel magazines
What he reads for fun: The Definitive Visual
History of the Automobile


[To see more of The Weekend in Black and White,
visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Friday, May 22, 2015

Weekend Reflections


There are now more of these shops around Paris,
but this is the original—in business in this
location for 254 years.  I've read that the dancers
from the Folies Bérgère, just up the street,
would come here for something sweet (and there's
plenty here to kick up your heels over).

[To see more Weekend Reflections, visit James's meme.]

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Thursday Challenge—"spring"


 . . . when the cherry trees in front of my building
bloom for a wonderful week or so—then turn
the sidewalk into a pretty pink carpet.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, visit Dale's meme.]

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

ABC Wednesday—S is for "strawberries"


"If there were wild strawberries in Eden,

and there must have been, Adam was a fool as 
well as a sinner to taste any other fruit."
 —Hal Borland

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

some for me, some for you


. . . and it looks like the pigeons have learned that
this sweet horse knows how to share.
There's a group of people who are fighting to ban
horse-drawn carriages in the city—and
I can't say I disagree that this is no life for these
animals (especially in extreme weather).  
When I walk along  Central Park South, I have
to pet (and maybe get a nice nuzzle
from) some of these hardworking horses.

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.]


Monday, May 18, 2015

Blue Monday


In Paris, window dressing is high art—and

I imagine you have to work your 
way up to the ones at Galeries Lafayette.
Last September, they were devoted
to Diane von Furstenberg, in tribute to the
40th anniversary of her always-flattering wrap dress.


[To see more Blue Monday posts, visit Smiling Sally's meme.]

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Shadow Shot Sunday


It's a pretty timepiece, but it's an hour fast.


Maybe she forgot to fall back before she
sprang forward . . . or something.

[To see more Sunday shadows, go here.]

Saturday, May 16, 2015

The Weekend in Black and White


This very tall plant grows in the tropical
conservatory at the botanic garden,
and it is . . . papyrus.  Who knew that's
what it looks like?  I didn't.  

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Friday, May 15, 2015

Weekend Reflections


Now that lilacs are in bloom

She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fingers while she talks.
"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know
What life is, you who hold it in your hands."

—T.S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations 


[To see more Weekend Reflections, visit James's meme.]

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Thursday Challenge—"peaceful"


One of the most peaceful spots in Paris is 
Père Lachaise Cemetery:  a nice place to visit
 but I wouldn't want to live there.  Well,  
actually, I would—just not any time soon.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo
Challenge, visit Dale's meme.]

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

ABC Wednesday—R is for "Rainy Rolls Royce"


At the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, 
they've created this homage to Dali's original
"Rainy Taxi," first displayed in 1938 at
the Exposition Internationale de Surrealism. It was 

fitted with pipes to make it "rain" inside the car—
which held two mannequins and 200 live Burgundy snails 
(and, I hope, some of whatever it is snails eat).

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Monday, May 11, 2015

Coming out


No, these are not proudly gay goldfish

(although hey, who knows?).  I do know they've
 been hibernating all winter in the lily pond
at the Brooklyn Botanic.  And I think they must
come out of hibernation in stages (?); at this point
they were just kind of floating in place.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Today's Flowers


There are more than 6,000 tulips in bloom 

in the loooong annual border at 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden right now. 
With mostly yellow and orange and white cultivars
this year,
 these (called 'Pittsburgh') stood out.


Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there!
[To see more flowers from around the world, go here.]

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Tic-Tac (That's French for Tick-Tock)


Actually, no, I did not see these in Paris—they were
on display at a street fair in the middle of Manhattan.

[Linking back to The Weekend in Black and White.
To see more, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Friday, May 8, 2015

Pink and Blue


You can barely see the sky for all the
cherry blossoms—but that's okay, right?


[To see more Skywatch pics, go here.
Also linking back to Pink Saturday.]

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Thursday Challenge—"beautiful"


Hard to choose a photo for this one, because

with so much blooming right now the 
whole city looks beautiful—including the traffic 
median that runs down the middle of Park Avenue.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, visit Dale's meme.]


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

ABC Wednesday—Q is for "quiet"


Shhhh.  This is the library of the Yale Club
in New York.  Mainly for grads (which I am not)—
but I was here with friends as a guest, and our 

charming young host gave us the grand tour.

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Stylin'

These girls were all dolled up for the
Cherry Blossom Festival at the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden last weekend—
although I think the kids who dress 

in Harajuku style like this do it every day.

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday and Our World Tuesday.]

Monday, May 4, 2015

Happy Monday


Hard to get back to the daily grind today.
Here's a little taste  of the gorgeous,
sunny, flower-filled spring
weekend we just had here in NYC.

[Linking back to Monday Mellow Yellows and Macro Monday.]

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Shadow Shot Sunday


This past week has turned out to be all about
(very) different variations on a theme:

a painted piano (on Wed.) and a classic version
(on Sat.),
a famous ceiling (on Thurs.) and this one—
which is in
 my own little kitchen in Brooklyn.

[To see more Sunday Shadows, go here.]

Saturday, May 2, 2015

The Weekend in Black and White


I showed you a funky piano on Wednesday and
(à la Monty Python) now for something completely 

different: my brother's gorgeous 19th-century
Steinway grand.  It (he) makes beautiful music!

(And day after tomorrow is his birthday—
have a good one, Chris!)


[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Friday, May 1, 2015

Weekend Reflections


It's been spring for more than a month
(and snowed here the first day of),
but for me the season doesn't really start
until the flowering trees burst into bloom—like
this weeping cherry in the Japanese Hill
and Pond Garden at the Bklyn Botanic.


{And if you're celebrating May Day in Paris 
today
I hope someone offers you a brin de muguet.}

[To see more Weekend Reflections, visit James's meme.]