Wheels!

Went up to Piermont, NY, last Saturday
for a wedding and took a walk
around town on Sunday morning.
We saw lots of bikers—and
this mural near the local bike shop.

[Linking back to Monday Mural
at Oakland Daily Photo.]

ambulanza

Hope never to find out what it's like
to ride an ambulance in Venice.
But if they're needed, they're lined up
beside the Civil Hospital and
ready to go.

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Monday Mellow Yellows

This past weekend was the Sakura Matsuri
cherry-blossom festival at the local
botanic garden.  Every year they put out
these Smiley Face chairs for
kids, and adults usually appropriate them.
(They either bought new chairs this
year or painted shades on all the old ones.)

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The Easter Bunny was here

Hope you had a lovely Easter or Passover
—or just a sunny Sunday.  It went
up to around 83°F (28°C) here in NYC.

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Monday Mellow Yellows

Very yellow and very, well not exactly
mellow . . . but definitely delicious.
Or so I assume, if limoncino is anything
like limoncello.

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a house in Rome

We were in this part of Rome to have lunch
at La Carbonara—mentioned in this
article about the Monti rione.  Unfortunately,
the restaurant was closed (you can't always
trust the Internet), but we had fun wandering
around the neighborhood.

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Looming

I pass by this construction site often on my 
way to work, though I have to admit that I usually 
speed up to get past this monster crane.  
These things make me nervous!  

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Monday Mellow Yellows

These yellow and orange flowers 
shone through the snow and
added a spot of bright color to my
Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Hot!

These are Gold Bullet habaneros, which
added some bright yellow color to all 
the wonderful Thanksgiving-type veggies
for sale at our local greenmarket
this weekend.

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Les imperméables jaunes

I came across this colorful display
outside a thrift shop as I
was wandering the streets of
old Bordeaux.

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autumn

Yesterday was a beautiful, sunny fall
day here in Brooklyn, perfect
for a walk in the Botanic Garden (if you
weren't one of the 50,000+ running
the NYC marathon, that is).
This time of year, it pays to look up!

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The bird market

Every Sunday, on the Ile de la Cité . . .
you'll find the Marché aux Oiseaux.
Kids love it—and, honestly, adults do too.

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Let there be lights

These fixtures were in a hotel I stayed
in recently, in Oslo—a well-done example of  "more is more."  (It works for me.)

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Monday Mellow Yellows

They've been renovating the Brooklyn Bridge
for years now, working on the structural
elements—and also on the smallest details.

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"There is a rose in Spanish Harlem"

This huge crocheted flower (yes, I know it's not
a rose; actually it looks like a hibiscus to me)
decorates a fence at P.S. 72 in East Harlem
—not really called Spanish Harlem anymore, but 
sometimes referred to as El Barrio.

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What would George Washington Carver think . . .

of this?  The peanutmobile was parked out
in front of my office building recently. 

And they sent some cupcakes up to us.
Don't be fooled by the blue icing—
it tasted like . . . peanuts, of course.

[Linking back to Monday Mellow Yellows
and to Blue Monday at Backyard Neighbor.]

Monday Mellow Yellows

A gorgeous wall of forsythia—I look forward
to its brilliant (if brief) time of bloom
every year, and it never fails to cheer me up.

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past their prime

Left over from a dinner party more than a week ago:
If I touch them, they'll disintegrate, but I can't
bring myself to toss them just yet.  Anyone else strangely
partial to dead flowers?

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bright spot on a gray day

We had a day of ugly, freezing rain and very high
winds last week.  As much as I appreciated
 comfort food and a glass of wine when I got home
 from work, a little floral therapy helped too.

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and to Macro Monday.]

his heart was in the right place*

*Artist James Goldcrown, that is—who painted
this mural back in November.  According
to his Instagram account, "this one's for Paris."
I'm putting it here, with some leftover
Valentine's Day love, for whoever needs it.

[Linking back to Monday Mellow Yellows and
to Monday Mural at Oakland Daily Photo.]