New Jersey Woods

Ah! The romance of bare branches.

Taken at noon on New Year's Day.

Wishing you all a healthy, happy and prosperous

 New Year.

My main blog is now here.

Oh,Well....

Waiting for the bus and walking the dog

are rather damp occupations lately.

This morning.

But yesterday afternoon the sky was blue

and there was a little hole in the cloud.

LilyHydrangea thinks it looks like an eye.

So then I thought of Keats:

When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face,
    Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance.......

And Hamlet to Polonious:

 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?

ps. maybe I should get a day job......

pss Lala's beautiful plate post from Spain is here.

Travels by Bus

Ventured uptown to have tea on 84th Street.

The evening comes early now, so it was dark when I made the slow voyage home by bus.

If you are an idle person with time on your hands, this is an ideal form of transportation.

Lots to look at. No good at all if you are in a great hurry.

We went past Lincoln Center and the newish Time Warner Building and then headed down 7th Avenue.

Such a useful traffic jam in Times Square.

Time to look about me and goggle at all the excitement.

Lots of different faces came up in the Person of the Year frame. You can probably pay to have your face there for an instant.

We lumbered past Macy's which was twinkling like mad.

And ended up just by the Flatiron Building and Madison Square Park.

Outrageous Lighting or Bloggers Evening Out/ABC

This blogger rarely goes out in the evening.
But when she is invited to join Alexa and Lori and Ming in welcoming Eric, of Paris Daily Photo, to New York, she manages to take the bus up 23rd Street to Broadway.



Pipa, on 19th Street, has an amazing number of chandeliers - you can buy them or merely enjoy them.
Ming has a much better picture.



The affects of light are very pretty.
The sangria delicious.
The company delightful.
We talked about healthcare and politics.........and Paris.



On the way out, I look back into the restaurant.
Always rather fun - being outside gazing in.



The first very cold, wet, windy night.
I give up and take a taxi home.

Shadow Shot Sunday/

This almost Halloweeny image was shot in an uncleaned-up doorway in the nowadays rather upmarket Meatpacking district.
I'm not quite sure what it is.



No one looks cheerful on the cross town bus - even though there are charming reflections on the ceiling.


I honestly can't remember where this is probably somewhere between 7th and 6th Avenue - but it could be anywhere on a sunny morning.



The sun hits an entryway and casts a purple tinge on the floor.