walking all day

 

that face . .

christine visited me today and we walked all over . . 

coffee and croissant at fellini . . 

we browsed through all the stores at chelsea market (posman's, fish's eddy, pearl river) . . and found a few gift ideas . . 

we also walked along the river . . 

into chelsea . . 

and over to the high line . .

and viewed the new colossal statue that has replaced the pigeon . . the light that shines through the universe, by tuan andrew nguyen.

walking along the high line . . 

past the church of the guardian angel . . 

the beautiful stonework on the church . . 

we finally stopped for sustenance at chelsea square. we meant to visit la bergamot, but they had closed their kitchen to prepare for dinner and weren't serving anything hot.

we were supposed to have breakfast before walking milly, but ran out of time . . so i think she was quite hungry by late afternoon. i was too.

christine took the train to port authority where she caught the bus back to her sister's house. i went home and set out the candy she had brought us from iceland (i put away my special treat of danish cognac chocolate for christmas time - they're my favorite and i haven't had any since the last time she was here which was before covid).

she also brought lovely sock yarn i had seen in london, but which she found in a store in copenhagen.

high line art

janet and i took a walk today on the high line and came upon the giant pigeon that has been installed for almost a year i think. they're actually ready to take it down soon and prepare the spot for a new statue. in this photo you can see me taking a photo with my camera . .

and here is my version: can you see janet's cell phone peeking over the statue's cement base to the left of the real pigeon, taking the photo of me?

here is the full pigeon sculpture . . it's actually callaed dinosaur, and it's by iván argote . .

a walk in the park

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and morgan sent several photos yesterday of spring in west hampstead:

tuesday night on the high line

 

the astronomy club was out on the high line this evening. kendall, janine and i were walking back from celebrating kendall's birthday at hav and mar restaurant on 11th avenue when we saw them. "have you seen saturn," one of them called out. 

they're always so welcoming and friendly, and it's always exciting to see the rings of saturn.

on the highline

i made a simple dinner this evening of cooked kasha with steamed broccoli.

one of my very first cookbooks that i bought from a used bookstore in 1988 or 9 (probably mercer street books).

afterwards, greg and i went for a walk on the high line. 

this plant is called rattlesnake master or eryungium yuccifolium and is native to the prairie grasslands of eastern and central north america. it supports many pollinators and is a good source of food for birds in the winter.

walking by the smoke bush shrub . . 

artwork by kapwani kiwanga (1971, canada) titled on growth (fern encased in glass).

but wait, there's more! film by chloe wise (a critique on our consumer culture).

saturday meal choices and a leak in the kitchen

after a visit to the farm stands in the morning, we decided to have lunch at chelsea market at the taco truck (i chose miso ramen from mok bar).

and then the afternoon was spent fixing a leak beneath the kitchen sink . . 

dinner featured broccoli, harukei turnips and flounder from the morning's purchases, and then a walk on the high line (in search of ice cream, to be honest).

admiring the echinacea flowers and greg thought he recognized mugwort, which he had been pulling out on randall's island during his yearly volunteer session with his workplace.

(film installation by ana vaz, titled ways of looking.)

checking the dewpoint and humidity levels as we've had a very cool and dry spring and early summer. today was really the first day of warm humid weather.

(church of the guardian angel)

and we ended up getting ice cream from l'arte del gelato - it's so creamy! (i had chocolate and panna cotta which i dropped on the floor! however, we were able to salvage it and i just scraped off the offending part.)