Thursday Challenge—"garden"

Set within the memorial garden is the moving
tribute to those who perished here 
13 years ago.  Before cutting the names into the
black stone, they made sure that those of family members,
coworkers, and friends would be near each other.

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WTC Tryptich

I was downtown a few days ago and caught
these images of the new World Trade Center building
reflected in the façade of the Milennium Hotel and
twice in one of the other new buildings that will make
up the WTC complex—4 WTC, which is scheduled to
open next month.  (Two dancers from the NYC Ballet
did a short but very special performance on its roof at
sunrise on 9/12.  Check it out here; it's absolutely beautiful.)

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And Orange You Glad It's Friday? I am.]

photo Hunter — "anniversary"

This sculpture by Fritz Koenig came through

the collapse of the Trade Centers relatively intact, 

and was placed here in Battery Park

exactly six months later.  Found this in Wikipedia: 

 “The Sphere” is 25 feet high and cast in 52 bronze 

segments . . . It was meant to symbolize world peace 

through world trade, and was placed at the center of a ring 

of fountains and other decorative touches designed 

by Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki to mimic the

 Grand Mosque of Mecca, Masjid al-Haram, in 

which The Sphere stood at the place of the Kaaba."

Pretty ironic.

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