Showing posts with label brooklyn bridge park. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brooklyn bridge park. Show all posts

Sunday, August 21, 2022

sunday boat ride or . . brooklyn excursion

greg and i rode the citibikes downtown to the wall street ferry landing. i took the ferry to dumbo to meet with lizette, while he stayed on for the lower east side stop.








we walked along the river for a little bit and then got a ginger plum iced tea from joe coffee which we had with the delicious chocolate croissants from the french pastry shop on her block (they were incredibly good - buttery with lots of chocolate). it was so nice to catch up with each other's news.

before leaving she showed me the early learning center where she's enjoying teaching.

heading home . .



lots of cute bulldogs along the way today.

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dinner was arugula beet salad with feta cheese and pepitos and leftovers from last night.

Sunday, April 24, 2022

brooklyn yarn crawl

 i rode citibike to warren street and walked to and over the bridge to meet korrina at the ferry landing at brookyn bridge park to attend the brooklyn yarn crawl event - visiting all four brookyn fiber stores.
 












at our first stop, woolyn yarn store on atlantic avenue.

there were four stores involved and if you found the crocheted/knitted flowers with their secret word and emailed all four words to the official yarn crawl website, you could win a special basket of yarn or a gift certificate. we found the flowers in the three stores we visited, but the day grew too late to visit the final one. it was still fun discovering all the flowers, however (woolyn's was the most difficult . . it's actually not easy to find amidst all the balls/skeins of yarn and other myriad of items).
 
walking to the next store . . 

wild plastic animals for sale on someone's stoop . .
 
at brooklyn general . . 


 
"lupine"


walking to our next stop . .
 

i always find it fascinating walking across the brooklyn queens expressway.
 
our next stop: delicious canolis and cappuccino at mazzola bakery!
 
our favorite canoli in all of nyc . .
 
walking through brooklyn to the bus stop which got confusing with the one way streets (we needed to take it east and had trouble finding where it turned around at the end of the line . . we ended up hopping in an uber).
 
here we are in windsor terrace at argyle, korrina's favorite shop.
 
"lagoon!"

i was excited to purchase a skein of esther's own hand-dyed luminous solar sock yarn in the beachcomber colorway.
 
walking to the bus for downtown brooklyn in our old neighborhood of park slope to return to the bridge and ferry landing.
 
cherry blossoms . .

admiring the redbud trees . .
 
 
korrina hopped on the ferry and i headed home along the bridge where everyone was having fun taking selfies . .
 


 

korrina's view at her ferry landing . .

taking a pic of her purchases in the sunset light . .
 

i decided to walk through soho rather than riding the bike home. here i'm passing burdick chocolate shop . . 

to meet chanda and greg for dinner at moustache . .
 
 


at home with another canoli for dessert.