Weekend Reflections

This is the elevated subway station
at E. Tremont Avenue, up in the Bronx,
where you get off to go to the zoo.

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bat those lashes

As though a red Mini Cooper weren't
already the most adorable automobile . . .
(My friend Lisa is letting me "borrow"
her shot of this cute car.)

[It's Ruby Tuesday. To see more, go here.]

At the Cloisters

This 15th-century limewood carving of Jesus
on a Palmesel (German for palm donkey)
was used in Palm Sunday processions reenacting
Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.
(One curious thing about this statue: I don't
 think I've ever seen Jesus depicted with
 a receding hairline—have you?)

[It's Ruby Tuesday; to see more go here.
For more of Our World Tuesday, go here.]

The Bucolic Bronx

My friend Lisa, who lives in the Riverdale section
of the Bronx, took me on a tour of her
(often maligned and misunderstood) borough.
When you think of the Bronx, is this the image in your head?

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

Shadow Shot Sunday

Can't imagine why I'd never visited The Cloisters
(maybe because it's way up there in the Bronx),
but finally went last weekend and it was
as wonderful as I knew it would be—kind of
 like traveling all the way to Europe on the A train.

[To see more Sunday Shadows, go here.]

Skywatch Friday

Let's call it a Christmas sunset. (And I was with

the ex when I took this shot—Happy B-day, Steve!)

That's the Bronx over there (the one NYC borough

that remains pretty much a total mystery to me).

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Skywatch Friday

This is the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, which
connects the Bronx (duh) and Queens. The
two towers were built in a mere 18 days.
When the bridge opened 70 years ago, the
toll was 25 cents. It's now $5.50. And so
it goes . . .
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