One of the requirements for where I live is that I not be landlocked. I cannot swim. I get nervous when I’m in water above my waist. I’m fearful of snorkeling. I easily get seasick when I’m on a boat. All that…
A LOVE OF WATER
Category: Summer in New York City
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
It was a perfect weekend to visit a friend who lives in Rockaway Beach, Queens. She didn’t live here in October 2012 when Superstorm Sandy, a category 3 hurricane, hit this beach community. The storm did major damage to Cuba…
AN ARTICLE ON KINGS RIVER LIFE MAGAZINE
Click onto KINGS RIVER LIFE MAGAZINE to read my latest article A SHORT HISTORY OF THE HOTDOG.
NEW YORK 9TH AVE. STREET FAIR
I went to the 9th Ave. Street fair last Saturday. It was crowded and there was a bit of rain but never the less it was a fun way to bring in the early summer days of NYC. These silly…
PLAYING SOCCER ON PIER 5
Last weekend we traveled to Brooklyn’s Pier 5 to watch our grandson play soccer. It was a wonderfully bright, late Saturday afternoon with a bite in the air that lets you know summer is over and that fall is here.…
PHOENIX AT ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Every couple of months I visit The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. It’s the mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and a big tourist attraction. If I see a lot of tour buses parked outside,…
TOMATOES
A couple weeks ago we visited friends in Connecticut. When we arrived they had just returned home from a farmers market and had placed big ruby red tomatoes on a sunny window sill to ripen. We have a farmer’s market…
WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT A LABOR DAY POW WOW
It’s the Labor Day weekend. I like to attend a Pow Wow on the Shinnecock Reservation on Long Island on one of these weekend days. I posted a blog last summer that included some photos from the Pow Wow in 2013, but…
PLANET OF THE APES SAGA
This summer has not been too terribly hot in NYC, but it’s always fun to go to a movie theater in the middle of a scorching hot afternoon and sit in the frigid air-conditioning. We weren’t looking for anything intellectual…
WATER TOWERS
The other day I was going through my collection of photos and found these water tower shots. Most people think of New York City when they see water towers dotted along a skyline. But after doing a little research I…