A view from the inside of the Musuem of Modern Art (MOMA) of their sculpture garden. Do have lunch at one of their cafes. The food was fresh, beautifully presented and reasonably priced.

Service where you wouldn't expect it.

 

I stopped at a corner convenience shop to buy flowers. The man maintaining that area saw me looking and asked me about the colors in my place then offered some suggestions. After I chose three  different flowers, he took them apart and arranged them like so. Then he asked me what my vase was like so he could cut the stems just right. There are so many choices for the shopper here that the service you get is what separates one place from another. This is where I'll buy my flowers from now on.

 

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.

I saw the president!

Well, at least I saw his motorcade! I was coming out of the UN tour, and the street was blocked as if for a parade. Hundreds of NY police were everywhere for blocks. I overheard a cop telling people that the president was coming through, and minutes later he did. I hope you can view this video. It's just a bunch of official looking vehicles (about 50!) turning the corner from the midtown tunnel onto First Avenue, but I was pretty excited.