I kid you not, this guy was walking around NYC with this lizard. After I took this photo, a cop stopped him and asked if he could take a picture.

Is THAT my husband?

Hubby's getting fashionable! Apparently there is a trend toward purple ties. He should know.

A Parade!

 

My husband mentioned on our walk yesterday that he had seen the NYPD out in force that morning which usually means there is a parade somewhere. Boy was there! We heard the noise of it five blocks away as we approached. It was the NYC Gay Pride Parade. For a city where people walk everywhere, naturally the police make pathways for you to cross the parade path, but you had to wait a good 10 minutes. It was extremely long, because an hour later we crossed it going the other way and it was still going on full force.

Husker Du?

If you really want to get to know your way around here, it helps if you played a lot of Husker Du as a kid. Remember that game where you uncover two items at a time trying to find their match? That's what you have to do here. If you see an interesting place you want to return to on 56th and 3rd, for example, you had better link up that place with that specific grid or streets, because if you go to 56th and 3rd you won't see it from there. Neither will you see it from 57th and 3rd, nor 57th and 2nd, nor 55th and 3rd.

I tried to attend church yesterday, but I set off from my apartment not having the address. I was so sure I would just run into it if I headed a little west and a little south.

It wasn't meant to be.

Put me in a bad mood the rest of the day.