Jan 18, 2020 | New York 2019
After dinner in Times Square we headed over to see something called “Slava’s Snowshow;” one day at the TKTS booth a guy had told us about the show and said it was amazing, so we decided to go. The show was created by Slava Polunin, a Russian born in...
Jan 15, 2020 | New York 2019
Friday night, dec. 13th, Mom and i had spent the afternoon at the Whitney Museum and started to make our back uptown. it was relatively warm and rainy, and we started walking towards a bus stop. we found one, and then finally a bus pulled up…but then it just sat...
Jan 11, 2020 | New York 2019
My favorite thing at the Whitney Museum. mom and i had both seen a photo of this work in the New Yorker. A kitchen made of beads! this is the best wide shot i took, except i caught part of a woman who was standing in the way over in the right. but after a lot of...
Jan 9, 2020 | New York 2019
After taking so many photos at the Met i was determined to not go so crazy at the Whitney. It’s a cool museum, and not so big, plus one entire floor was closed so we didn’t have to worry about it. we decided to start with lunch, but on the way i had to...
Jan 6, 2020 | New York 2019
Of december, that is. our last day in NYC. we took the subway to the South Street Seaport TKTS booth and decided to see the show “Slava’s Snowshow,” even though we didn’t know anything about it. a guy at the booth had described it to us, saying...
Jan 5, 2020 | New York 2019
after looking at the “Making Marvels” exhibit at the Met we headed off to find some lunch. on the way i had to take a few quick photos of these faberge beauties. This is an “Imperial Lilies-of-the-Valley” basket. This basket is considered the...
Jan 5, 2020 | New York 2019
After our day at the Met on Thurs. Dec. 12th, Mom and I went to the south end of Central Park. i’d hoped to see the Christmas decorations in different hotel lobbies and stores. I had a list of hotels, a few of which were right there on 57th Street, on the south...
Jan 4, 2020 | New York 2019
i hope somebody reading this is interested in these objects because I thought they were truly wonderful. This is the piece on the picture of the exhibit; it’s a Celestial Globe with clockwork from 1579, made by Gerhard Emmoser. Emmoser, who served three...
Jan 3, 2020 | New York 2019
first, they kept referring to the word “kunstkammer” in many of the objects in the collection and i didn’t read anywhere what that meant. i found it on the website. Each of the remarkable pieces in this gallery proved the maker’s—and by...
Jan 2, 2020 | New York 2019
After looking at the Impressionists at the Met on Thursday, Dec. 12th, mom and i wandered around a little and then walked by an exhibit and decided to go inside. It’s called “Making Marvels: Science & Splendor at the Courts of Europe.” And it...
Jan 1, 2020 | New York 2019
My favorite thing to do at the Met is stare at the Impressionist paintings. I feel i never have time to properly take the time to look at them, but i’m always happy for the opportunity. I know i’ve posted these very pictures before, but here they are...
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...
