by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Showing posts with label street musicians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label street musicians. Show all posts
greg and i walked over to strand this morning as i wanted to pick up a book they had for kathy for her birthday (kate bolick's march sisters, on life, death and little women, marisa and i had attended wnyc's interview with the author in 2019). we had a bite to eat at veselka and stopped at the green market on the way home for a few vegetables from muddy farm and nectarines from mary's farm. there were no prune plums . . sadly. i have felt like making another plum cake.
there was a great brass band playing outside of gourmet garage today, off the bar brass.
dinner this evening was a vegetable and ground beef stew from the gaza kitchen by laila el-haddad (greg watched a florida state university game . . they haven't been doing very well this year, so far, but managed to win tonight's game).
milly has this thing about sniffing at the open doors of various shops that we pass. here a very nice owner took a moment to say hi. milly was very pleased. i think she just likes the aroma of certain places.
when walking around the neighborhood, i sometimes like to stop at the yarn store to say hi to hayley and aria. kiana (the owner) is in london this week (everyone is in london these days!) i also bought another skein of yarn to go with two others i bought two weeks ago as i would like to knit pure joy by joji locatelli.
milly was also interested in the elementary school today!
beautiful springtime flowers i passed on my way to meet sacha at peacefood cafe (after dropping milly at her home) . .
peacefood vegan cafe . .
ernie is ready for deliveries . . (sacha has been studying at the arborvitae school for herbalism in new paltz and interviewed me to help with her practice of patient intake for graduation).
we walked to union square afterwards where she took the train and i stopped to listen to a band . . (i was actually surprised at how cold it was outside and wished i had my down vest with me) . .
everyone was having a good time singing along and dancing.
oh! but there's more . . i met greg at a new italian restaurant for dinner. chanda had visited this place in naples in 2021 and was surprised to hear that they were opening in our neighborhood. l'antica pizzeria da michele finally opened this year . . (the original in naples is much more casual).
chanda left a few grocery items in the fridge yesterday, so i dropped them off to her after her classes were over and she was in the neighborhood to feed a friend's cats. then i walked to beasty feast for cat food and a new kitty litter as i'm concerned that the litter we use is too dusty and is contributing to zuzu's eye irritation.
greg came to meet me to get out for a walk before ending work for the day. it's definitely spring with the musicians back out in the squares.
i made a recipe i haven't made in a very long time: sesame noodles from mollie katzen's vegetarian cookbook the enchanted broccoli forest. i used buckwheat noodles with a peanut butter/tahini dressing (mixed with hot water, tamari and brown rice vinegar), and sautéed kale with onion and garlic.
the anthem in church this morning was a beautiful rendition of the prayer of st. francis, which you can hear the first unitarian choir sing on their facebook page (start at around 31:00 to hear the congregation join in with them); and above you can hear the greater atlanta adventist academy choir.
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well, the rest of the day grew very exciting. greg's high school friend was in town and we made plans to see a play at new york theatre workshop.
just before heading out to meet her, greg received a text from the theatre that the 2 pm show was cancelled. he spent our walk cross town on the phone trying to get in touch with her and with the theatre (i took this photo because usually i'm the one texting or talking while walking, and he's the one telling me to watch where i'm going. of course i wasn't bothering him about being careful, because i was too busy taking pics). i was actually rather happy about the cancellation as i suddenly didn't feel like sitting in a dark theatre. the day was so beautiful with sunshine and a cool breeze. staying outside was the new reality. however, the 7 pm show was still scheduled, so they exchanged their tickets for that performance and greg was able to get reimbursed for my ticket (i decided to skip the later show). one of the performers was sick and they needed more time to prepare the understudy.
after the ticket rearranging, we visited st. mark's on the bowery . .
and walked by our friend lucia's old apartment building where she lived with her twins while telling stories about the neighborhood (lucia lived across the street from photographer peter hujer's studio).
and then a late brunch at veselka . .
blintzes, perogis and potato pancakes . .
veselka is love . .
and then over to downtown yarns.
after which i left them at thompkins square and started walking home . . past st. mark's again and over to the muji store to check on some sheets for chanda. they didn't have the correct size though.
things were really happening karaoke-wise at astor place so i ended up stopping and hanging out for a little while. i recommend watching these next videos even if the singing seems a big far away for true enjoyment, as it's the people walking by that is most fascinating (especially movie #3 with the group of young women and the elderly man - though #4 is great too as she ends up in a duet with a passerby . . and numbers 1 and 2 show my pigeon friend to good advantage).
when i made it home, chanda was cleaning her room, doing laundry and sorting through clothes. we had some leftover pasta and ate the pastries i had bought at veniero's, though greg finished most of them when he returned. he said the show was fabulous, and i'm not surprised (you can read about it here), but i enjoyed the astor place impromptu concert just as much.
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it's time for the photos from london. i think these are from saturday's adventures:
so, is there just one tardis doctor who box, or several . . or hundreds? and what is the meaning of the word "tardis"? (san, do you know? i suppose i haven't watched enough doctor who episodes.)
riding the new lizzie line which looks incredibly posh to this new yorker.
the pattern came with daughter of a shepherd yarn which i adore. the brown is such a beautiful deep, dark chocolate . . i get lost in it.
what a great day, but that's only half of it. i think they went to the docklands museum next. however, i need to get some sleep. i've spent too much time tonight working on old posts. when greg heard peggy was in town, he combed through his journal notes trying to figure out when we saw her last. i tried to help by searching my blog, but i actually didn't post about her last visit here, though i remember it clearly. (we ate at lombardi's pizza in soho with her and all four of her daughters.) after greg discovered the date, i looked through my photos and my blog and discovered lost adventures i had never recorded. here they are: morgan in tokyo; korrina and i at val-kill.
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