Dec 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
i’m taking a break from writing about NYC to wish you all a lovely new year. i have a cold, so we’re spending the night sitting around. we did have some new year’s eve day excitement though – we went to see the latest “star wars.” i...
Dec 31, 2019 | New York 2019
After leaving the spectacular SeaGlass Carousel on the evening of Wed. Dec. 11th we got on a bus and made the short trip over to the 9/11 Memorial Fountains. It was dark, cold, and windy by the time we got there, so not a big crowd. You can’t tell in the picture...
Dec 30, 2019 | New York 2019
On Wednesday, Dec. 11th after we left the Brooklyn Museum and got tix for the Temptations show on Broadway, mom and I hopped on a free downtown manhattan bus and headed for the Seaglass Carousel. Bev had told me about it; she’d seen a post that our friend Gil...
Dec 29, 2019 | New York 2019
OK, a few more photos from the Brooklyn Museum…this is a jackal from Egypt, and i took it because it reminded me of amy and jim’s dogs. i found this info about it very interesting. i liked the description of this modern painting more than the work itself,...
Dec 28, 2019 | New York 2019
We arrived at the Brooklyn Museum after seeing the church where mom and dad got married and then doing a lot of walking through Prospect Park. Online it says the Brooklyn museum is”one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States.” I love...
Dec 27, 2019 | New York 2019
On Wednesday dec. 11 we left our place in Brooklyn at the crack of 11:30. here’s the front of the building. Another photo of our subway stop, the Franklin Avenue Station. the reason i kept taking photos of it is because a few weeks ago kevin and i started...
Dec 23, 2019 | New York 2019
Tuesday Dec. 10th, the rest of our first full day in NYC was very busy. After our long walk up the High Line park we stopped briefly at the super fancy new Hudson Yards shopping mall and then took the new subway to get over to Times Square. It was late in the...
Dec 22, 2019 | New York 2019
i don’t know why i didn’t think i would post the video i took of our apartment in Brooklyn, so here it is. ok then,...
Dec 22, 2019 | New York 2019, Uncategorized
finally, some photos from the trip mom and i took to new york. it started inauspiciously…on Monday dec. 9th we drove down to Lambert airport in St. Louis and our plane was delayed for three hours. we sat around for a very long while and both felt crazed by the...
Dec 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Les and Riley can’t help being so adorable all the time…here they are on the first day of december. christmas swan!!! mom and i went to hobby lobby at the beginning of the month and were were about to check out but i hurried back in to pick up some...
Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
whew. Xmas is now ridiculously close and i still have a whole bunch of stuff to do. I think i’m still a little tired from all the traveling. I just transferred my 2.3 millions photos from phone to computer and i can’t think about them right now, even...
Dec 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
so…i just got back from NYC. Mom and i left on monday and got back yesterday afternoon. Right before i left i spent a lot of time uploading photos, creating drafts to post while we were gone. it didn’t happen. plus i took approximately 3.2 million photos...
Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
I feel i’ve been woefully lacking in my posting of les paul photos, so here are some from the beginning of November. we were having a lovely walk…and then Les decided to climb right up the oak tree that’s leaning way over in the lake. he didn’t...
Dec 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
gee, i can’t believe it’s already the last month of the year…my goal is to get everything from this year posted in this year. not a huge goal, so hopefully it’s attainable. first – when i jog on the lake road i pass a house that has a...