Pajama Walk

Saw this couple out for an evening perhaps pre-bedtime walk; I figured they wanted to save time with their bed preparation ritual since he was walking in his pajama bottoms (sadly the lightening doesn't show the plaid printed flannel bottoms) and she was wearing her housecoat (as my grandma would say) but I say a robe by any other name......I admired the confidence and apparent who gives a hoot what anyone thinks attitude.

Making Dinner Fun

Making dinner is a lot more fun when someone is coming to enjoy it with you. Even if it's only your grown up son, and you're only making tacos.

Trash and Vespa

walkway

Came home from work to notice the ivy was trimmed off of the stairs; it's the little things that bring us joy.

A relic from my past life...

Rolling Along...

Rabbits

Attended a baby shower and at the hostesses house they had pet (I think they are pets but was given the impression they also end up as dinner "guests") rabbits and most of them were in a  hutch except for these two rabbits who were hanging from a nearby tree. I found that rather odd especially since they also had some birds who weren't in cages in the trees but in a neighboring rabbit hutch....

Fortune Cookie

Have you noticed how fortune cookies don't actually foretell your future anymore? They're more "Thought for the Day" -ish, sort of life lessons to live by. BAH! I want a fortune, a glimpse into my hazy future. I always wonder if the fortune cookie people have become afraid of law suits, therefore going with the safe stuff. So when this fortune arrived one night with our Chinese takeout, I was surprised. Especially since about three weeks later we brought home an amazing Golden Retriever from the humane society.

Even with the misspelling, this fortune is right on target.

stalker

I couldn't stop staring at this woman's legs; was she wearing some fun nylons? didn't seem to be; did she really tattoo polka dots all over her legs? maybe so...I'm surprised she didn't notice the strange woman following her and circling around to get another look at (that would be me) her and I was ever so thankful she didn't see me snap a photo, albeit not the best focused, of her polka dotted legs. 

Never a Kindle

I don't know why this corner of an old library building was saved. It's just this old arch that doesn't go anywhere, isn't connected to anything. It's crumbling and pigeons live in, around, on, and under it.
There's no sign to tell us why it was saved.

With all the books being tossed from libraries all around me, I'm afraid that very soon this crumbling arch will be all that's left of any library.

I still don't own a cell phone, and I hope I never own a kindle.

Multicultural Meeting

A meeting of women dancers of many cultures

Brooklyn Arts Council's "Half the Sky Festival"

in Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass)

NYC can be a cool place to be

Double Vision

In order for me to be able to enjoy 2 different medias at the same time I have to alternate my 2 pairs of glasses; can't adjust to bifocals and was glad when the eye doctor discouraged it saying for my work it's best that I just have full lensed (is that even a word?) computer/reading glasses and I agree.

Bowling Lanes Alley

Many, many times I have walked by this alley behind a pawn shop. I have never seen this before. (And judging from the style of clothing this man is wearing, I'm guessing this mural has been here longer than I've been alive.) I'm sure that I only saw it today because I was wearing a big camera around my neck.

stairs

Stairs leading to an old building no longer in use; sort of eerie.

A floral flourish on a flower bed fence

Because in NYC's Upper West Side

it's all about the details.

Red Light in Old Town Pasadena

So glad I had my camera.

waiting

Tossed aside waiting until bedtime cuddling.

Old Door

I came across this old door

laying by the side of the road

Left out for the trash collectors.

It made me sad:

Yes... its days of being a "good door" may be over

But it's still a beautiful

objet d'art.
And oh, the stories it could tell...

Public Access Eating

On my daily walks, I can stop to eat loquats, pick a lemon to use in a marinade for dinner, and gather a bouquet of sweat peas and sunflowers - all growing wild in empty lots or hanging over the boundaries of public access. And if I'm lucky, really lucky, in a few months I'll bring home a couple avocados.

farewell

These 2 young Marines are heading over seas for their first deployment adventure.....