A Break from the Festivities to consider American Culture

Real snow as against the pretend stuff.

Quite unexpected.

Tuesday afternoon.

Looking west.

Looking east.

More of the diner in New Jersey.

Such architecture. Flag bunting in case we forget where we are.

Garden State brickface on the walls. Bows.

We are welcomed inside.


Since we are no longer young, we don't care if the breakfast will kill us. Butter. Syrup. Bacon. Sausage. Eggs. Pancakes. Sugar. Glasses of water to swill all this down with.

Diner coffee.

We are in heaven.

The George Washington Bridge is majestic and spans the equally majestic Hudson River which has suitably American proportions. Nothing tame and Thames-like here.

A rather dark and threatening "Blackbird" sits atop the Intrepid to remind us........I'm not quite sure of what.

This last picture just of light on a railway trestle on 9th Avenue -- for no reason whatsoever.