Last week I had a dentist appointment on 57th street, so I took the R uptown and my stop let out right at the bottom of Central Park. I love the park at all times of the year, and I couldn’t resist taking a few pictures of how peaceful and beautiful it looks during the winter.
I have had the pleasure of visiting my best friends in Massachusetts twice this month. Both trips Emma and I chased our obsession with “American Bloomsbury” by heading back to our favorite town, Concord, Massachusetts.
The first weekend we didn’t have as much time in Concord, but we did tour Emerson’s house, which was extremely awesome. We also stopped by the Alcott’s Orchard House and walked around the grounds and the gift shop, but didn’t have time for a tour.
The second weekend we had a lot more time, and went back to Sleepy Hollow (one of the first places we went in Concord during our very first trip), took the tour of Orchard House, and went to all three of Concord’s book stores. (Books With a Past, Concord Book Shop, and Barrow Book Store.) Orchard House had a special event on Saturday – a celebration of May Alcott’s birthday. They had traditional games in the lawn, and free cake and lemonade. The next day we walked around Minute Man National Park, and saw Old Manse (though we didn’t have time to take the tour of Old Manse, but we have to save some things for next time).
We also had time on Saturday to stop in Cambridge before heading into Boston to meet Emily/Steve/ESG and her family/friends for a big group dinner. This meant that we got to go back to the Harvard Book Store, which is an another awesome book store.
If you ever go to Concord (which I highly recommend), a wonderful book to read first is American Bloomsbury by Susan Cheever. It’s also a very wonderful book to read at anytime, visit to Concord or not.
Lots of pictures below, and even more on my flickr page.
I’m so delighted that we’re actually having a spring this year! Last year it went from 50 degrees to 90 degrees seemingly overnight.
Ryan and I (and basically the entire office) have been heading to the closest park, Madison Square Park, during lunch every day. It’s gorgeous. Here are some photos I took on Wednesday:
On the way home from the library yesterday, I stopped in Church Square Park to snap a few pictures since the trees were so lovely. It’s been a gorgeous spring so far, and I hope it lasts a while before the 90 degree heat settles in for the summer.
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Today I was absolutely delighted when I pulled up the blinds and saw the first snow of the season!
In other news, today also happens to be my 1 year Voxiversary. I’ve been a member since 10/26/06, when they opened Vox up to the public, but I didn’t make a real post until 12/2/06. I probably made some posts and deleted them, but we’ll go by the first post that survived.
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And here’s a picture of the most relaxing afternoon in the world: reading in the hammock in our backyard:
I tried to make my desk look as natural as possible.
Egg – 2 eggs over easy
Cat – The Daily Kitten on my computer screen
Bubble – 2 packs of Juicy Fruit bubble gum (by candle)
Kid – Framed photo of my little brother
Computer – My iMac
Fruit – 2 packs of Juicy Fruit bubble gum (by candle), Apple computer
Black – cell phone, picture frame, moleskins, Apple computer logo
Fire – Candle
Paper – Books, assorted letters and paper
Sleep – My computer is being put into sleep mode (see upper left)
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Today was my very first Yankees game. My family is visiting and our activity today was going to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium. We bought these tickets months ago, thus had no way of knowing that today would be cloudless and 95 degrees.
However, the stadium was surprisingly pleasant, especially when the shade from the top thing finally covered our row. And the wind was steady and incredibly refreshing.
No one in my family is the biggest Yankees fan, but I like them more now that I live in New York, and we’ll all cheer for them as long as they’re not playing the Tigers. (And Derek Jeter is from our hometown, Kalamazoo; which is pretty cool.) In fact, I’m happy they demolished the Anaheim Angels, because I’m still bitter about the Anaheim Mighty Ducks eliminating the Red Wings in this year’s playoffs. Yes, that is crossing sports hatred across genres, and morphing it into hatred of a certain city’s teams, but I don’t care. I do not like the Ducks, and I can only imagine people who like the Ducks might also like the Angels. Crazy Disney teams.
Anyway, a good time was had by all – with the exception of Ben, who was hot and not interested and spent most of the time vocalizing his desire to leave. We ended up leaving after the seventh inning stretch, because it was hot and we were sticky, and to beat the rush home.
More pictures, including several from the subway ride to the game:
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My little brother. :)
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