Elizabethwix

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• Flowers and Things

  

  Went up to the wholesale flower district (6th Avenue and 28th Steet) very early on Wednesday morning to discover the Empire State Building lurking in a puddle... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week by Buster

  

  I have not done a blog for a long time because I have been very busy. One day Jasper came over and he slept in my bed like he always does.This is a new picture... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gloomy Weather

  

  26th Street is gloomy at the best of times. The church ( built in 1907) has seen better days... and has extra vivid verdigris/moss on the steps. A bad photo of... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Local Excitement

  

  We were looking out of the window on Thursday as some workers were removing the last of the scaffolding from a building across the street. A crash. A cry. Peopl... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• My Summer Job

  

  Me and Charlotte have decided to become swim coaches. Here is Darcy about to get in the pool.This is me seeing how she is getting on.She is now very good at... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gardening

  

  Two flats of impatiens to be planted before the party. Need to keep the young gainfully employed and off the street. Many happy hours spent watering. Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Summer in the City

  

  Yup, it's yellow and in your face but if you go up high you can see that it's time for summer duds Having got the urban bit over with I proceed to Union Square... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Cake

  

  An awful lot of rain lately so cake needed (here at Bergamot on 9th Avenue) as above and at the Neue Galerie where there are so many pretty things including... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Painterly

  

  On Thursday I was walking past the old Alcamo Marble place which went out of business last year. I imagine it is about to be turned into a new swanky gallery. Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Community Garden

  

  Was lucky enough to be invited to have lunch in the community garden the other day -- about 2/3 of an acre of little well-tended plots with flowers and veggies. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Important Things

  

  This is me sitting to attention at the butcher on 9th Avenue where they have marrow bones.This is me at home with my bone before I have licked all the good stuf... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Ghosts of Flowers

  

  The poor pansies probably deserved better than to be hammered -- though just tastefully shrivelling up is a bit dull. Their ghosts are fragmentary and... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES

• Sunday Afternoon on the High Line

  

  Sunday afternoon and R. gets it into his head that he wants an ice cream --not any old ice cream but gelato. So we walk down to the Chelsea Market where there... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Urban Eye Candy/Sunday Morning

  

  The flowers at the deli are aways pretty technicolor, but cheering nonetheless. How come the coral bells on 22nd Street are blooming (albeit a white variety) an... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2012 DESTINATIONS

• Friday

  

  Things of great importance: the mint is sprouting little roots, and the orchid hs bloomed for a second time. Horticultural Society Diary was a Christmas... Read more

  Posted on 19 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Gritty and Green

  

  The other day I discovered that about forty nasty plastic giveaway magazine things had appeared on 23rd Street. Someone's art project? A prank? Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Marrakesh Comes to New York

  

  D+D Building on Lexington --all sorts of little black and white squares --even in the curtains (right). New York is tall and gray and white. Marrakesh is pink... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Week by Buster

  

  This has been an up and down week. I was down when my sister went away.This picture is telling her to hurry home.Then I decided to go to sleep and not think... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Soho and Bread

  

  Soho on Friday afternoon lots of traffic and people heading out of town a shifty, dusty man living on the pavement in Chelsea and not very dusty men making brea... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 DIARIES

• Country in the City

  

  As frequent readers of the blog will know, this is pretty much what the city looks like. Note the progress of the Freedom Tower (upper right). This is what the... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL