Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Happy New Year!






















Happy New Year!!! Hope 2009 brings you health, wealth, peace, love and happiness. I'm wishing for all five! Cheers!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Viva La Zoom


Ah... the wonder of zoom on the camera. This Christmas tree in the front is a block away in Gramercy Park and the Chrysler Building that looks so close in the background is 20 blocks away! My street Irving Place dead ends into the Park. I love my neighborhood!!! It's a little bit of calm reprieve in the busy world of Manhattan. Irving Place only runs between 14th Street and Gramercy Park and North of the park it's Lexington and gets busy and noisy and New Yorky. Two years before I moved here I used to come to NY for extended stays and would often take a cab from the East Village where I was staying with my pal Tom to go to Jenny's Studio on 19th Street. The cabs would take a right on Irving Place and turn left at 19th, I would think, this is a cool neighborhood, I'd like to live on this street. And... two years later after looking at 40 apartments in the middle of a heatwave August, this is exactly where I ended up. I've been here 11 years now and I still love my neighborhood and New York:)

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Bodega Blooms




Amazing how even in the brrrific days of December the Bodega's in NYC keep us all cheered up with beautiful blooms. Almost every little neighborhood store has fresh flowers year round. Course the second the flowers get into my steam heat blaring apartment they start to get the swelter vapors, poor things. So, for the most part I enjoy them outside in their full color glory and cool storage.

Saturday, December 6, 2008

Orange Shoes


I admit this pic was taken back in the Spring on one of my store window strolls but I just love those Orange shoes and wanted to post them, even tho I would never wear them as I have officially entered into the grandma footwear of comfort zone and these don't fall into that category by any means. I haven't posted lately and I haven't been out taking pics lately either cuz of the "elevator modernizin'". I'm on countdown to week 5 of elevator repair and in hibernation til the thing is working again! I meant to go out today, really I did! I also need to get with it with this blogging thang. I look at other folks blogs and they are great. I just haven't gotten into the swing of it all yet.