Elizabethwix

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• Seen Around Town

  

  The city is pretty nice when everyone goes away for the long weekend and the town fills up with tourists and out of towners. This is a rather muddled picture... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Fatty and Other People

  

  There was a lot of fuss about the storm, but mostly all I noticed where lots of brancheson the ground and a lot of Fatties hanging about spying on me from the... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2011 DIARIES, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Scaffolding

  

  They are restoring the building exactly across the street from us. I would guess it is a 19th century brownstone, which has recently been gutted. Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Inadvertent Art

  

  The tin foil tray from Robert's last painting sitting round looking as blue as the perfectly lovely sky --so very welcome after all the rain. Followed by a... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Irene Aftermath/ Long Island

  

  All state parks are closed so instead of going to the beach we went to visit a friend in Huntington where lots of families are still without power, so the... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2011 CURRENT, TRAVEL

• Dancing in the Streets

  

  Sitting at home waiting for Hurricane Irene to pass. Luckily we were not too much affected. I feel very sorry for those without power or affected by flooding.... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Wet

  

  Hurricane Irene was not as terrifying as billed in the media. I took the dog out this morning. Streets pretty much deserted except for another dog owner. Wet,... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• An Afternoon Walk

  

  Still waiting for Irene to arrive. The corner diner is still open with the windows taped. Only a few lemons left at the deli and the cat not really wanting to... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Back to Normal --Almost

  

  In my house they put plastic on everythingwhich made it very slippy to lie on.Anyway, we are home. The floor looks pretty much the same to me.But we are going t... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Approaching Storm

  

  For some reason I woke up at just after five this morning. When I looked out of the window everything looked misty and magical. Then dawn broke properly and... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• How Soon is Now?

  

  New Yorkers are notoriously impatient. We saw one wearing a t-shirt with the title slogan above yesterday. When we lived in Italy we always loved the... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Pretty Clouds

  

  Our usual Tuesday at the beach with particularly lovely clouds. Lots of people enjoying the end-of-summer, last-days-of-the-vacation fun. Even old people enjoy... Read more

  Posted on 26 August 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• More About My Vacation

  

  Up here they have weird garbage cans.I would not be happy if I had a bolt through my head.Sometimes Professor Joba did not want to play.He lay down on the sofa. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Nature Study

  

  The dog isn't really used to the country. So even the most ordinary things are amazing. At the edge of the nature preserve. Beside the Hudson. Off the back porc... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Misty Morning

  

  I woke up in the night and saw how wonderfully foggy it was after the rain. Still foggy in the morning when it was time to take the dogs out. Mist, like... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Wednesday

  

  We are staying out of the city so feel it incumbent upon us to see the local sights. These include Nykuit built for the Rockerfellers in 1908 at vast expense an... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION, TRAVEL

• Pots of Money

  

  Kykuit, high above the Hudson, was built by the Rockerfellers in 1908. What fun it would be to design a mansion with money no object at all! Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Nature and Digging

  

  In case you did not know, this is what nature looks like.It is mostly green and there is a lot of it.Anyway, in nature the ground is not hard and you can dig... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Reflections on Nyack

  

  A small town on the Hudson --here a table in the public library where we enquire about Edward Hopper the town's most famous son. Read more

  Posted on 16 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Old Things

  

  This is the kitchen sink in which Stompy and Leo and Bunny and a lot of Claudia's dolls' clothes are taking a bath in the hopes of rendering them less depressin... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION