There is indeed something special about the Spirit of the Season in the City. It is the unexpected waft of the odor of pine trees; the newly formed aisles of trees to be walked through on what is normally a cement sidewalk through-way. It is the brightly colored packages carried out of stores and shops …
Category Archives: Holidays
What?
It’s about the durges at the Post Office. My mailing address is a Post Office Box so by choice, I am obliged to show up at my local Post Office, multiple days of the week to collect my mail. Throughout the year it is a small, sane place. But come the Monday after Thanksgiving and …
Riding the Rails on the S Line
That was fun! Once-a-year the Metro Transit Authority, hooks as many as 11 vintage subway cars together and runs them for the four Saturdays between the Saturday after Thanksgiving and the one before Christmas, on a designated line. This Saturday it was running on the ‘M’ line as the ‘M’ line doesn’t run on weekends, …
Fake Trees vs Real
The juxtaposition of the fake garland wrapped around the real tree limb. I’m still working through that one.
Meddler
Perhaps it is just me, not able to leave well enough alone. He was standing in the jam-packed subway car with 5 double-bagged Trader Joe’s bags. The gaping bags laid out in plain view what he had purchased: all the trimmings for a holiday dinner. Since we are cheek-by-jowl and I had to look down …
Another Tree
It wasn’t a cheap ticket by any count, especially for a museum that hasn’t changed it’s core exhibits in the last double digit decades but it was a sight to behold thus worth the price of entry. The Origami Holiday Tree at the American Museum of Natural History. I didn’t count them, but word has it …
The Day of the Drunken Santas
It’s Saturday. At first I noticed a Santa at 10 am and thought he must be on his way to a gig. Then as I was out and about I began to see other Santa Clauses, too many for one day of attending to kids in the City. I asked one white-bearded young man. His …
More 5th Avenue
One of my favorite sights: the ultra-expensive jewel-box jewelry store with million dollar bling in the plate-glass front window while on the corner outside a hotdog-pretzel-seller at his cart is sending up smoke clouds as he fires up his grill. It costs to walk down 5th Avenue at Christmas. Dollars to the unique percussion performer …
5th Avenue
One way to experience the Retail Christmas Season is hailing a cab at the Plaza Hotel at 12:30 am and driving south on 5th Avenue, hitting the wave of green lights and thus, not having quite enough time to look both right and left to take in the lights and sights. Your ride begins passing …
The Bass
The eye-catching young man entered the subway car holding his bass-fiddle naked – the bass was without case or cover. Unprotected. I wondered how he dared do that; expose his instrument to the whims of weather. He was tall, handsome, with a couple of 24 hours worth of 5 o’clock shadow. While contemplating why he …