Stepping off the curb, mid block, with peonies in hand I glanced down. Two eyes were looking up at me. Startled. Me, not it. A lone pigeon, tight up against the curb, between a BMV and a Lexus. At first I just stood there looking down. Knowing I had to do something, hoping it wouldn’t …
Category Archives: Street
The Bronzes at Union Square
Embedded in the sidewalk are these beautiful bronzes depicting scenes of days gone by. Most of us just walk by them, stepping on them without noticing them. Then one day, there they are!
Sort Of…
…just noticed. Yet, knew it all along. There are no telephone polls in Manhattan. How wonderful is that. Look around your American City. Can you say the same? Don’t think so.
Get It?
The building appendage, the copper colored oddly shaped piece, is actually only half as thick in reality, but the reflection of the building to which it is attached, doubles its size.
A Favorite Day
to be in the City, when most everyone has gone elsewhere, because it is an official holiday. How it manifests is the following: no one else on public transportation all day Saturday and Sunday [well almost no one]. In Trader Joe’s at noon and can count all of us shopping there on both hands and …
Doors
Every city has fine examples. But do we notice? These drew my attention this week.
The Bird is Back
Well, since the communique that the other bird was morte, I have to believe this bird is a new one. Wrapped up in plastic against the wind and the possible rain, there it hangs in the same cage, tweeting above the tomatoes and garlic scapes.
Inviting!
Today the Market in Union Square. A bright, Friday with the weekend ahead, the sun shinning and since it is around noon, a light smattering of people. And what you can purchase: bread, wine, cider, cut flowers, plants. vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, fish meat, turkey, pork from the flying pig farm, baked goods, the list is …
Heart – Ya Gotta Have….
They had been apart. He was so excited that she was returning, he met her with his heart in his hand, well, on a ribbon in his hand. While walking around SoHo together, they impulsively decided to give it away. And so they hung it on a tough piece of concrete. At first it …
Figurines
They appear unexpectedly: the proverbial cigar store Indian. I will add them to the post as I happen upon them.