"Van Gogh's Ear"

I know it looks like a swimming pool, but that's
the name of this 30-foot sculpture by
Elmgreen and Dragset, on display at the
Fifth Avenue end of the Rockefeller Center
Channel Gardens until August 16.

[Linking back to Blue Monday at Backyard Neighbor.]

Weekend Reflections

In one of the shops along the Channel Gardens
at Rockefeller Center, these pretty prisms
reflected the surrounding buildings.

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

Shadow Shot Sunday

It's lots of fun (pricey, though) to skate at the 
Rockefeller Center Rink—but when you're
just watching, it's nice to find a whole crew of 
people out on the ice who really know 
what they're doing.

[To see more Sunday Shadows, go here.]

ABC Wednesday—Z is for "Zamboni"

Here's the guy who keeps the ice nice and smooth
for the skaters at the Rockefeller Center Rink.

And btw, if you haven't seen that 
tree, you have until 8 o'clock
 tomorrow night before they turn
it off and take it down.

[To see more ABC posts, go here.]

Weekend Reflections

I went to Rockefeller Center to see this
year's tree—an 80-year-old, 10-ton,
78-foot Norway spruce that's been adorned
with 45,000 LED lights (that's it in the background).
But on my way down the Channel Gardens,
I discovered some other trees that also
featured . . . silvery reflections!

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

The Weekend In Black and White

As promised in yesterday's post, here's Lee Lawrie's
Art Deco statue of Atlas.  It's four stories tall, 
weighs 7 tons—and when it was unveiled in 1937
some folks complained; they thought the face looked a 
bit too much like Benito Mussolini (actually, it does).

[To see more b/w pics, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Weekend Reflections

This is 630 Fifth Avenue, across the street
from St. Patrick's Cathedral and right
behind the 1937 Art Deco statue of Atlas
(more about that tomorrow).

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

Thursday Challenge—"hard"

Mom and Dad were having fun, but their little girl
was still pretty unsteady on her blades.  My
father first brought me here to the Rockefeller Center 
rink when I was 4 years old, and I quickly learned two things:
Ice-skating is hard—and so is that ice!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American friends—

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

And one last look at this . . .

Because on Wednesday, they'll be turning
off the lights on this beautiful tree.
Then they take it down and eventually about
3 tons of mulch will be donated to the Boy Scouts.
(Not sure I get the connection, but
I'm glad they recycle the tree.)

[It's Shadow Shot Sunday. To see more, go here.]

Rockefeller Center

We're still hanging around Rockefeller Center,
because even though I showed you that
tree last Thursday, there's plenty more to see—
seriously, how do they manage to wrap
every branch of those trees in blue lights?

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

Thursday Challenge: "my favorite photo"

I stood under the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
(an 85-foot-tall Norway spruce from Pennsylvania)
to take this shot of the angels in the Channel Gardens
and the well-lit façade of Saks Fifth Avenue.

That's the glow of 45,000 (!) LED lights.

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

Prometheus photobombed

I came by Rockefeller Center on my way to
work recently and snapped a few shots of this
famous bronze gilded statue (apparently the most
photographed piece of sculpture in NYC).
He's being photobombed by that couple, but . . .

He's being seriously photobombed
by Jeff Koons' gigantic half-pony,
half-dinosaur topiary. You can
learn more about it here.

[To see more of Our World Tuesday, go here.]

Getting ready at Rock Center

Passed through Rockefeller Center recently
on my way to work.  These guys were busy setting up
the angels in the Channel Gardens while others were putting
the 30,000 lights and 550-pound Swarovski star on
the tree—which will be lit tomorrow night.
(And I will not be among the anticipated tens of
thousands who will attempt to witness it!)

[See more Ruby Tuesday posts here. To see
more of Our World Tuesday, go here.]

Mellow Yellow Monday

Here's Atlas, done entirely with Legos,
in the window of the Lego store at
Rockefeller Center.  Amazing, isn't it?

And here's the real one,
right around the corner
on Fifth Avenue.

[To see more Mellow
Yellow, go here.]

About that tree . . .

Okay, here it is. Figured I had to go get a picture 

of the Rockefeller Center tree.  Of course, 

when I went by there on Sunday night, there were 

probably several thousand people who had the same 

bright idea. So I turned the other way and 

snapped this shot of Saks Fifth Avenue's "snowy" façade instead.

[This post is part of "That's My World." See more here.]

skate while there's still ice

They're getting rid of it sometime in early April,
so make like Dorothy Hamill (or Scott Hamilton)
while you can.  Used to skate here when I was 4 (!),
under the watchful gaze of Prometheus.
And do (or did?) you skate?

c'mon—smile!

This guy's wife tried and tried to get him

to smile—but he wasn't having any of it.

Maybe he doesn't realize he's posing in

front of the world's most famous tree.