Elizabethwix

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• Bloggers Day Out

  

  An utterly gray day when they had removed the top of the Empire State Building, so nothing to see from the roof when the artist Elizabeth Bunsen came for the da... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, DIARIES

• The Joys of Food

  

  Early Mother's Day outing to the Mexican restaurant --chips, milk black bean soup yum clean up required before dessert Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Sister

  

  This was a pretty good busy week! My sister came to see me from England, so she needed to see all my friends at the park like Charlotte and Baxter.This is... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Chelsea Walk

  

  Our daughter Claudia is visiting from London and took these pictures in Chelsea yesterday afternoon. The Shrigley poster that everyone thinks was written... Read more

  Posted on 06 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You The Queen

  

  To celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee I joined with lots of other ex-pats, and others with connections to Britain, to go to a lunch to raise money for the... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• Huntington, Long Island

  

  Time to get out of the city and go to Hecksher Park to do a little castle building and observe the Canada geese the ducks the swan three heavily armored... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Creativity Comes in Bursts

  

  Mum got a note from my sister saying I was being a lazy blogger. I was very hurt because I do try to write good stuff like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and people... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bookish

  

  Rosie said, "You should read Barnaby Rudge." So I got it down off the shelf where it had resided in untouched splendor amidst all the other Dickenses that I... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A New Book

  

  There are all sorts of things I miss about Marrakesh.... the patient donkeys amongst them.... not to mention the brilliance of the colors ( here in the dyer's... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 8th Avenue Street Fair

  

  Always such fun when they block off the road and you get to walk down the middle of it. The usual selection of not-very-interesting knock-off sheets and socks... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Instagram

  

  I have been having lots of fun with Instagram a phone app where my handle is biffwix. It's sort of instant blogging without having to think of anything to say,... Read more

  Posted on 27 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Dinosaur

  

  The dinasaur looks a pretty shifty character to me -- look how he has his foot on the boy in the field. He lives in the castle along with the other creatures. Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2012 DIARIES

• Ferry From Williamsburg

  

  The embarkation platform........ Manhattan on the other side. East River water, almost clean enough to swim in, I think. Elly says not. Brooklyn Bridge in the... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• News Flash!

  

  Charlotte has gone to jail!photo james rubinThis is a picture of her behind bars! Hee Hee. This is a joke.Anyway, this is most of us checking to see who is... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Smorgasberg, Brooklyn

  

  Saturday was beautifully warm, so we headed to Brooklyn where all the young people are as well as lots of food. At Smorgasberg you can eat yourself silly in... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• More Spring and Some Buildings

  

  Looking out of the window we see that the trees are greening out nicely and that the huge red crane towers over the street. The trees aren't fully in leaf but... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• What I Take Photos Of.....

  

  The short answer is everything. I don't go in cars very often, so crossing the 59th Street Bridge was something of an adventure. All that metal and odd... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Dream Come True

  

  You can see in the back ground that there is no pool in the park.This is Olive and Gally and me.Gally is wondering when our pool will come and Olive is looking... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Green Market

  

  Met Finnish foodie Liisa at Union Square which is foodie heaven.... so not much time spent admiring the flowers, instead a morally pure bakery --spelt and glute... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• World Trade Center

  

  I usually see the rebuilding downtown from the bike path along the Hudson but yesterday I was on my way to meet a friend at Poets House and took the subway to... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2012 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION