Elizabethwix

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• Dog Days in the City

  

  It is extra hot hereso Biggie is still lying on the bench.Knut is pretending to be a polar bear.This is me and Gander looking extra smart. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2011 DIARIES, PETS, SELF EXPRESSION

• Damn Artsy

  

  Yesterday afternoon we went to the movies to escape the heat and saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life, the most sorry piece of pretentious claptrap I have... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2011 DESTINATIONS

• Travelling

  

  A taxi on 27th Street.... then a Buddhist monk waiting with his luggage outside the Leo House. Is there some significance to all the red? -- beyond being able t... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Skate Park

  

  Down at Chelsea Piers there is an alarming concrete playground for those equipped with guts and kneepads and elbow pads and helmets it's great fun to watch too... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Abstracty Stuff with a Hint of Blue/Sunday

  

  A city Sunday with a friend's children in tow. Here down at Chelsea Piers near the skate park --the little flecks upper right are ducks. See below. Duck... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• My Chums

  

  Biggie is on the benchbecause he says it is too hot.Tyson is smiling.I am looking at McGee sniffing the rock.Sometimes dogs hang round with the grownups.This... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shadowshot Sunday/Guest Photographer

  

  Years ago, when Shadowshot Sunday was just beginning, and we lived in Morocco where the sun is so bright that there are always lots of stunning shadows, Denise... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Guerilla Gardening....update

  

  New York has been becoming a prettier place lately. It's never going to be an English country village or anything like that--nor would one wish it to be. Luis... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2011 GARDENING

• Glum

  

  On Tuesday evening after an extra good day at the beach where I took many splendid photos of puffed up seagulls, a sculpted tall sand-cliff ledge made by the... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Charlotte

  

  As you can see, everyone at the park was yellow or orange colored.I am talking to Charlotte.This is Brooks and me watching Charlotte rolling in the pool.Next... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Shadow Shot Sunday/22nd Street

  

  I have been rather neglectful of the Shadowshot Sunday photo group of late which is a pity since I've missed lots of wonderful pictures. Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2011 SELF EXPRESSION

• A Selection of Silly Portraits

  

  This is Lily and Samson. Samson is the big one.This is my dragon who is a bit sad lately. He is on the dining table.This is Benny looking very sober and... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Bus

  

  Apparently, the M23 is the slowest bus in Manhattan. This may well be true since it's possible to get where you want to go quicker on foot. However, if you are... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Green Market: Friday

  

  As I sat on the M23 heading East, I thought: Gosh I haven't used Hipstermatic for ages.This is probably because Reya said it was hokey or cliched or overdone... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2011 CREATIVITY, SELF EXPRESSION

• Fooling with Zinnias

  

  Robert bought an orange zinnia yesterday at Union Square to augment the miniscule garden at the foot of the tree outside our building. It got rather bashed up o... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• A Quiz and a Paper Bag and Hodges is Back

  

  Do you know whothis strange creature is*? I will let you know later on.Hodges got the paper bag that Mum brings plastic bags to the park in.He was very pleased... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2011 DIARIES

• The Lure of the Wave

  

  Penn Station. July 5th. A rather colorless group waiting to escape from the city..... to the beach where rainbow sunshades seem the latest thing. Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Seeing Stars

  

  Dusk comes rather late this time of year. This is about eight thirty but the sky seems to be practicing for what is to come. Luckily we have some patriotic... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL

• Water Feature

  

  One of the many good things about the High Line is the water feature which is now up and running. How blissful to feel cool water on burning soles not to mentio... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2011 CREATIVITY, DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Dapple

  

  Above a door on 22nd Street rather a lovely golden apple......of the Hesperides or THE BIG APPLEwho knows? Dappled shade in a much improved Union Square and mor... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2011 DESTINATIONS, TRAVEL