Elizabethwix

LATEST ARTICLES ( 859 )

• Metropolitan Museum and Knickerbocker Hotel

  

  Wonderful John Singer Sargent show at the Met.What a painter, what energy, what verve - how very theatrical!How the contemporary onlookers look so deadly... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Annual Robert Moses Beach Post

  

  What celestial blues!What a perfect day for the beach.The water was ripply and delicious.The life guards were suitably watchful.The surfers were outbut the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Summer Roundup

  

  I have been pretty busy.Dreamdate Darcy came over for a sleep over.I have been hanging out at the pool. What you see next may come as a bit of a shock to you. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Trip to Staten Island

  

  Wednesday was an astoundingly hot day so we decided to discover the beach on Staten Island.A marvelously inexpensive outing - $1.75 old person's subway fare wit... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Summer in the City

  

  The Malibu Diner on 23rd Street is very popular with the lunch crowd.It's reliably packed and fulfills your every diner dream. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• 4th July

  

  A celebratory weekend!The local diner has all sorts of suitable stuff on the windows.See belowEagle rather fierce and fireworks. Lady Liberty looking rather... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Contrasts and Summer Reading

  

  I'm neglecting this blog in favor of another one - which I'm not posting on either... The impetus to blog waning in favor of instagram which is so immediate... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Glamorous New York - East Side

  

  A very overdue visit to the Metropolitan Museum on East 84th Street to see their stunning Chinese fashion show.A multi-media extravaganza to dazzle both the... Read more

  Posted on 12 June 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Lazy Blogger Says Hi!

  

  I have not written my blog for a long time since nothing has happened.Mum went to England and now she has come back and they have put the pool out in the dog... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• London Flowers and a New Blog

  

  Some lovely flowers outside Liberty's in London.My main blog has moved here. Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spring

  

  Such fun to go up to the roof terrace - and pick flowers! These vases are very small indeed.For my new blog go here elizabethwix. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• More Union Square

  

  For my new blog go here.This is the best flower picture I've taken for ages.The poppies are super stunning.I've yet to buy any to take home. Would they last in... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• May

  

  Though I've moved my main blog here, herewith a few of the week's New York photos.Enough sun to form shadows. Hooray!Down Hudson Street.and the Hudson River wit... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• New Directions

  

  What has this blog been about?Well, things I like, like flowers in Union Square...The stunning buildings of New York City...playing with images (here a tintype... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• April News from Buster

  

  Hello everyone. This is my news:This is a dog that lives around here called Penny.As you can see she looks a lot like me. There are not many dogs with fur... Read more

  Posted on 25 April 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bright

  

  Marsh marigolds picked by small children who haven't quite grasped theidea that you need to have stems to put in water...Trailer Park on 23rd Street looking... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Ah! Flower Pits...

  

  Since it is now April, spring is, eventually, arriving.Time for the urban gardening season to begin,Margaret and I head up to Union Square to reconnoiter and... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• One World Trade Center

  

  Years ago I used to bike by the old World Trade Center quite often. I went up one of the old Twin towers in 1993 - the week before the very first small bombing. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Spring, Maybe...

  

  Can you believe it snowed yesterday?I looked out of the window and saw it looked like Christmas, but it is not Christmas.I had to wear my boots outside. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2015 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Hooray!

  

  It's the middle of March....Frances and I went to Union Square and, lo and behold!Pansies...and primulasthe first of the season. Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2015 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL