Last few views and then I'm home!

I am back in California, where the thermometer reads 101 instead of 73, and the land and air is sere, rather than humid and green.  Uncle Groovy kept my garden alive, and Dick kept my cat fed, so all is well with the world.  It's quiet; so quiet here.  And fragrant, too.  I look forward to re-acquainting myself with this world.

The N-Q-R Station at 5th Avenue and Central Park South.

love the pink with the other colors and shapes

one of the entries to Central Park; this one up at 110th St.

Crab cakes to die for at Le Peridot

Dinner with Jeffery, Riquia, Kalen, Chris, and Kirun at Le Peridot

view of early morning Queens from the Air Train to JFK

coming into Terminal 2 on the Air Train

At Knight's Landing, I stopped at our favorite Taco Wagon for the usual 2 tacos (asada) and a Jarritos (pineapple)

As I came over Jarbo Gap, this cloud gave me both dread and joy.  Rain or lightning?  Which?  Turns out, neither.

I am going to try to put some of Jeffery's camera-shots on the blog, but they are denser, and in Tobin, my feed is much slower, so I will put them in a separate post.  Here's one for now.

group selfie from when we were at my Ma's house!

Winding down and preparing to head home

Well, it's been another great time in New York.

The horse would take a mouthful and while he chewed, the birds would flock to his bucket to eat.  He would then kick the bucket with his front foot, and take another mouthful when the pigeons had scattered.

The view from the last train car window

Frederick Douglas tile portrait at 110th St.

Came to this station on the 1 route to capture the tile art, seen in the following few photos

This is the Weed World truck with the kinds of bud available, and they deliver!

The Hugh O'Neill building

Funky van

street musician

here are our banded wrists

Here we are, after standing for over an hour in line to become the welcoming audience-crowd for the Season 9 premiere of America's Got Talent.  Didn't really get to see much, truthfully; just lights and people and the "scene", but now we can claim to have "been on t.v.".

this is us just before they "put us to work" cheering and clapping and appearing thrilled to be there

they kept telling us crowd-members to cheer, but to put the cameras down.

This is what we could see of the Rockettes from our position.  Some of the audience-crowd didn't even know the Rockettes were right above them.

We squeezed through the barriers and escaped to get a better view from across 6th Avenue.  Then we went for an ice cream cone.

I may have put this place onto the blog last year.

Cool buildings; which you are about to see more of in this post.

Brooklyn Diner in Manhattan

choke-cherries? mulberries?

tennis balls galore

It's a dog party; a big dog party!

I loved this tree, and the light upon it.

Sounds a bit, well, hmm, better not say.

It's like a circus!

patio

when I first looked up, I almost fell down

So I turned 180 degrees, and tried again

Time & Life building

I'll probably have one more NYC post, because I have Jeffery's photos to show, and more on my camera.  But for now; it is my last day in Gotham, and I fly out first thing in the morning.  See you in California!

Out on the Weekend

It was really nice being with Jeffery for two whole days, not just evenings.  We ate good food, rode the ferry over to Governors Island, (we were stymied by weekend subway changes from getting out to Yankee Stadium for Sharon ), saw many sights, chatted over many topics, took an art class, sat in the park watching people, and went to the Morgan Library and Museum (Hey Ma and Aunt Cyndie; we did it, and you were right; it was wonderful)
Even the two down-pour rains came in the night, leaving the days nice and fresh for our adventures.
Here are photos to show you what it looked like!  I begin with my Friday sight-seeing tour.

Riverside Church, the tallest in NYC

So tall, you can't get a shot of it's total height from the sidewalk; even when lying on the ground to get it.

more of its cool angles

One of the wonderfully vibrant stained glass windows

an alter in one of the chapels

I could photograph the front doorway carvings all day, and still not catch all the details

view from the north

close-up of the dome of Grant's Tomb

The Hudson River and New Jersey

more excellent scaffolding

This guy could really play the blues

Not too many subways let the sunlight in

The tile pictures in this subway were done by students

You see all kinds of people

Jeffery calls this the Ladies Gazebo, and it was the first time I'd seen it in Central Park

Emmanuel and Jeffery; my hiking and dinner buddies

The ferry to Governors Island.  I wonder what the words "at the same moment" refer to, or mean

We arrive

a pretty ship, with Brooklyn in the background.  The cement "building" to the far right is an air-vent shaft to feed the tunnel under the river

Jeffery on the walls of Fort Jay

One of the homes used by the military

Artistic decay

We think this really melted; that it's not an artwork.  What got hot enough to melt it?

explanation of the island's early transfer of ownership

horse drinking fountain

the light of the day made the buildings seem to stick out

hawk 

reflection

turtle

pretty flowers

P.Morgan Library

medieval lady

Jewelry from BCE.  How fine it is!  How did it survive intact, so that I'm seeing it?

The Announcer said "stand behind the yellow line as the train approaches", so what does Jeffery do?

Tile art at our stop where we'll take the art class in Brooklyn

very lovely tag art, signed!

and drink bloody marias!

ready for class!

a view of  some of the students' work

Teacher Danielle, and our artistic endeavors.  I think Jeffery is a new Van Gogh

I still have "When the Saints Go Marching In" stuck in my head

sign on a bus

our hotel at night

divine dessert!