Last year at Christmas we bought a live tree, a short thing standing about three feet tall. It’s a prickly tree with a funky bald spot, probably the result of the burning sunshine and under-watering during one of last summer’s…
MID JANUARY
Category: stormy weather
MERMAID PARADE, CONEY ISLAND 2013
It’s mid-December. The weather outside today is dreary, cold and it looks like New York was saved from a major winter storm that crept across the USA heading to the East coast. Miraculously it by-passed us. I get nostalgic about summer when…
MUSEUM HOPPING: THE BOXER AND THE BEAUTIFUL
In the last couple of months I did some museum hopping for a little distraction from writing. My novel, FISH KICKER, is in the hands of the publisher. I’m waiting for the copy editor to send me the final draft…
STORM WATCHING AND MY ENCOUNTER WITH A GIANT FROG
I’ve been a storm watcher since I was a little girl and the other day NYC had a real drencher. I knew it was going to be something to take notice of when the sky turned a sickly grey-green and…
LEAVING FOR SPAIN TODAY
Well, the day is finally here. We are leaving for Spain later this afternoon. We have 8 hours before we’re scheduled to take off, I’m restless and the weather has me a bit concerned. At present a major rain storm…
I HEAR THE OCEAN ROAR
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for winter to be over!! It feels like it’s been a never ending season this year. And though we’ve had some nice days here in NYC, the cold and wind seem to…
THE BIG WINTER STORM
This is a close up view of a rose hip encrusted in ice. Ice is everywhere today and though it’s starting to thaw and the ice is melting from the limb of the trees, the ice cycles falling from the…