SATURDAY OUTING

Walking downtown along Third Avenue

Here's a locked door

What used to be a flower shop is a movement studio

Here a homeless man pauses to watch free videos and to listen to I Tunes at one of the many Kiosks Google has set up around Manhattan.  A most interesting article by Nick Pinto of the Village Voice titled "Google Mines Manhattan" talks about them in detail.

(see LINK below)

Turning into 15th street a fashionable residence posts both a 'Private Property' and a 'Bernie 2016' sign, displaying the confused irony of current political thought

At the Park Avenue crossing to Union Square

Lionel Smit's monumental sculpture "Morphous"
looks in two directions

(see LINK below)

In the park, sparrows find bugs in a fallen branch

Here they are ground gleaning

Here a clutch of pigeons catching crumbs

This copper tipped one caught my special attention

At the market I got some lovely green squashes from the end of the day $1 a bag sale, but my beloved organic bee keepers had already gone for the day so I will have to do without the "Elixer", a paste made of Pollen and honey which I love to have a half teaspoon of daily, until next week.  But on the way home I found two bunches of flowers discarded in the trash in their original wrappings:

One of pink Campanulas

so pretty

the other of Hypericum buds

The air was damp and cool with occasional wind

LINKS

Google Kiosks
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/google-is-transforming-nycs-payphones-into-a-personalized-propaganda-engine-8822938

"Morphous"
http://www.lionelsmit.co.za/exhibitions/morphous/