SUNDAY SWEET SUNDAY

Plants

A New Rescue

 Two Rescues Together in Morning Light

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Subway
Muralist Manuel Vega

 His Tiled Mural
(reflecting train lights)

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The Conservatory Gardens
104th Street off Fifth Avenue

Apple Trees

 The French Fountain

 Tulips

 English Nymphs

Tree Perch for Two

 Sundown

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Museum of the City Of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street

Roz Chaste

 Retrospective

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Interactive

Ha!

I will return.

Links
http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/conservatory-garden.html
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http://www.mcny.org/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roz_Chast
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TWO EVENINGS

Monday Evening

For two hours, with four friends from my writing group, The Moving Pen.  We each responded to two prompts timed at approximately twenty minutes.  Then those who wished to read these first unedited drafts shared.  Sharing is never mandatory.
I will edit before I share the texts here. 

1. Write a tribute to someone important to you:
"My Little Mother"

2. Describe a space you consider to be sacred:

"The Sacred Notebook"

Tuesday Evening
A quiet walk in The Conservatory Gardens

English Herb Garden

Old roses tucked into corners

French Formal Garden

Sunset over the Roman Garden

Across the street
Museum Mile
6 to 9 Free
At Museo del Barrio--Exhibition Dancers

more Exhibition Dancers

A few selections from the current exhibit
" Under The Mexican Sky"
From the early 1930s through the early 1980s, the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa (1907–1997) helped forge an evocative and enduring image of Mexico. Among the most important cinematographers of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema, Figueroa worked with leading directors from Mexico, the United States and Europe, traversing a wide range of genres while maintaining his distinctive and vivid visual style.

Zapata

A child Vvewing Diego Rivera Study

Octavio Paz

The exhibition features film clips, paintings by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, Manuel Rodriguez Lozano and José Chavez Morado, photographs, prints, posters and documents, many of which are drawn from Figueroa’s archive, the Televisa Foundation collection, the collections of the Museo de la Estampa and the Museo Nacional in Mexico. In addition, the exhibition includes work by other artists and filmmakers from the period such as Luis Buñuel, Sergei Eisenstein, Edward Weston, and Tina Modotti that draw from the vast inventory of distinctly Mexican imagery associated with Figueroa’s cinematography or were heavily influenced by his vision.

 Outside in the steet I danced with kids, old folk and young ones.
Everyone danced!

https://youtu.be/KaZPPRqEIyU

See More about this stunning Exhibit on view through June 27th

Here

http://www.elmuseo.org/current-exhibition/ 

Last Dancer at the Museum of the City

Home by bus thoroughly exhausted.  Nothing hurts when I'm dancing, but when I stop, every part of me from crooked feet to aged knees reminds me who I have become.  My nightcap--Epsom salt bath, Soothing salves and sleep!

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ARCHANGEL AFTERNOON

I descended into the subway for the train uptown.
A bald-shaved burly man covered with tattoos was pushing a high tech baby carriage, his wife beaming nearby as I asked permission to photograph his legs.

He seemed pleased too.

When you depart the train at 103rd Street, walk West a few blocks, and there is an old stone overpass for the Metro North line which you must go through.  Emerging from that, if you look back and up, birds and trees live in that wall.

Archangel brought a swell and generous picnic.  We met to eat on the front patio of the Museum of NY where there are tables and chairs, and a choice of sun or shade.  Later, in a brief visit inside, I asked this man if I could get a shot of the back and front of his t-shirt.  He too was pleased, as was his wife.

I was disappointed that the message on the front included an advertisement.

On to the Conservatory Garden across the street.

Next to the entrance gates.

Looking down over the Roman garden from the high Wisteria portico.  Later there will be a fountain rising two stories up from the center of that circle, and many shrubs and perennials will be in bloom in between and all around.  It's just begun.

Looking up through the iron framework to the newly pruned vines, and remembering when the lavendar blossoms blotted out the sky.  That will happen again little by little.

These are ancient vines.

Ah, the crab apple trees will bloom and fruit again,  There are two of these alleys flanking the Roman Lawn on either side.

The English garden

Dogwood bloom

Dogwood branch

Archangel and I took simultaneous portraits of each other.

blue Scylla

A sudden change in weather.

Archangel headed home.
I wandered further uptown.

Music for days end.

Took a slow bus home.