Category Archives: New York
Fall Colors
Taken from the Wallkill Valley Railroad Bridge, the hillside houses of Rosendale, an old cement mining town on the southern fringe of the Catskills, are still partly hidden by the fall leaves.
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Perfect Manners
New Yorkers, the agent in his glass booth insisted when we recently went through immigration in Texas after flying in from Mexico, acted like deranged pirañas, fighting to get into the Subway, and stepping over dead bodies lying on the … Continue reading
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Christmas Fare?
This eight (seven, six? – I never can work out what counts and what doesn’t) -pointer was comfortably grazing below my studio window in Stone Ridge last week as the crack of rifles could be heard not far away in … Continue reading
On the Rocks, Part Two
One of the unusual surprises in Central Park are the turtles, locally known as sliders, which climb onto the sun-warmed rocks around the Park’s several lakes. There name refers to the fact that when you approach, they silently slide backward … Continue reading
Upper West Side Tacos
As luck will have it, we are not deprived of great Mexican food when we are in the big manzana. The Super Tacos truck parks on 96th street at Broadway each evening, as it has done for the last 15 … Continue reading
Red, White, and Bluebird
Typical of America, the bluebirds here are not satisfied with just being blue but have to do the whole patriotic thing, bluebirds in Britain being a little less technicolor. Our bluebird house upstate New York usually attracts a pair each year and … Continue reading
Some Kind of Sentient Life Form?
George Lucas or Jim Henson would love/have loved one of these. It was in Central Park and is conceivably alive. The small black thing sticking out at top left is possibly a nose, although it could be just a starter … Continue reading
Cherry Blossom in Central Park
After watching the bougainvillea burst out in San Miguel, we arrived back in NY just in time for the Cherry Blossom in Central Park to do the same thing – early this year because of the warm spring.
Steve Jobs, the Last Word
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In the Days That Followed 9/11
In the days that followed the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Union Square, which for a while was as far South as you were allowed to travel in the City, became the center for an ongoing … Continue reading