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.]

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.]

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 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.]

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.]

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 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.]

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.] 

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.]

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 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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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 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.]

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.]

a red bike on a sweet street

[Linking back to Ruby Tuesday, Our World Tuesday,
and Wordless Wednesday (on Tuesday).]

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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.

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.]

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.]

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 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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]

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.]