Sunday Serenity

even in times of 

trouble, there are magical

moments to be had...

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xoabb

demand serenity!

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Photo taken by my son Bly with his blackberry. 

Quite the eye he has! (Just braggin' :)

Thank you Hilary for honoring my son's
wonderful photo with a POTW!
Magical indeed!

So this is the way I started my day...

So this is the way

I started my day. Must be

Grand Central Station!

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Grand, don't you think??

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xoabb

there's strangeness all around!!


A gentleman went up to her and asked why she was dressed as she was. 
She told him it was her expression of free thought.
 I then went to him and asked him what she said. He told me about the freedom thing. 
Then that gentleman asked me if I believed in the Holy Trinity. 
Told him that was way too personal.
People!

Painted Sky

One of the great pleasures in life is looking up in NYC. There's always a wonderful and different view to see. This Red Riding Hood movie poster - or possibly it's painted bricks - is absolutely ginormous! For some reason, I was taken by it's stunningly wonderful/beautiful image. Of course, it would have been a better shot if I'd had my camera out and at the ready with the cab window already rolled down, but, alas I didn't (sigh).

Actually for a SWF photo, it's just fine!

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xoabb
I love NYC!

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SkyWatch Friday
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P. S. The hubs and I were given a gift of tickets to see ~Million Dollar Quartet~ last Saturday (the matinee, and it was just WONDERFUL - take yourself to see it, you'll love it - thank you so very much, Mikey & Heather!) so were in ~The City.~ Big day for us. Very big day!

Setting Sun

Manhattan Sunset

6/12/10

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xoabb

Sky Watch Friday

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The High Line (SWF) Birthday Edition

Instead of simply tearing it down, New York City has taken what was a very ugly - and long in length - eye sore and turned it into a spectacular park-in-the-sky. The High Line starts in lower Manhatten's Meat Packing District and will eventually stop at 34th street. Right now it's open to 20th Street. Such a fabulous place! (See here for a wonderful seasonal slide show of The High Line.)

As some of you know, my birthday was last Friday, the 4th and my seeeester came from DC to help me celebrate! I always appreciate help when it comes to celebrating (just about everything). Jules and I met her in lower Manhattan as our agenda for the day included seeing the wonderful ~Claude Monet: Late Work~ show at the Gagosian Gallery on 21st Street and walking The High Line. Talk about beautiful! What a splendid job NYC has done. The meandering path is flanked on both sides with gorgeous plantings that, I understand, are seasonal. There are wonderful benches to sit on and soon there will be a water feature. If you haven't been there, do go!

After we were through walking The High Line, we happened upon The Chealsea Market, another wonderful place! It is full of shops and restaurants - and a grocery store where we discovered the veggies were a lot cheaper than anything we find out here in the sticks of CT.

Then we walked a loooooooong way to The Garage (112 W. 25th St. between 6th & 7th Ave.), a huge flea market selling just about anything you can think of. It would have been a lot more fun if the temperature had been about 20 degrees cooler. Needless to say, we didn't last long there.

After all this activity the three of us were getting hungry so we cabbed it up to the West Side and met Daryl for a loverly lunch. Let me just say that a birthday margarita is about the most perfect thing one can possibly have!

A day of perfection!

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xoabb

i have the best family & friends!

Sky Watch Friday

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P. S. A most wonderful birthday to the most wonderful dad in the whole wide world!

Happy birthday, Daddy!

xoxannlie

The Secret Pathway of the Steps...

(Sounds like a Nancy Drew mystery!)

Miss Lauren and I went on a field trip to the Big Apple to meet two other blogger-met friends, Miss Kate (for the first time), and our hostess Miss Daryl (we've met twice before - lovely!). Daryl wanted to show us the Boat Basin and Riverside Park before we had lunch, and we all gladly agreed (visit their blogs here and here for more pics of our adventures - you won't be sorry!). As we were walking out of the park, we came across this charming Secret Pathway of the Steps. Of course, we had to follow it. 

Surprise! At the top of The Secret Pathway of the Steps...two seats! Imagine that! In the middle of this most lovely park were two seats, that obviously didn't belong there, but still, were just waiting to be filled...

 

And so, Kate and Daryl sat, and enjoyed a laugh at the 

randomness of the many different and sometime silly 

Seats of NYC.

(Ok, I'm conjuring up what they were thinking.)

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xoabb

expect NYC salutations!

ABC Wednesday - It's S!

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P. S.  Tomorrow I'm payin' it forward from Daryl (and Asthmagirl (Diane), too, from a time I forgot about, sorry Diane, feeling small now). Also have a little continuation of the ABC ~S~ theme - just one photo, I promise, but it's good! So do join me for a little PIF giveaway fun!