postcards from the park: paradise in the city? central park, the pond!

pretty in pink? I am not sure!

“a library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life” henry ward beecher (congregationalist minister 1813-1887) new york public library built 1897-1911, architect carrere and haslings, style beaux arts

postcards from the park: union square park, new york (the tourists, the students, the free spirited, the artists, the unemployed and, of course, the freaks)

old new york

the central park pond in winter and in spring

the flatiron building: doesn’t matter what time of the day, what time of the year, from which angle we look at it I find it beautiful (built-1902, architect-d.h.burnham, style-renaissance)

city dogs

this week on the sidewalk: “oh, sleep, it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole” samuel taylor coleridge (english poet, philisopher, 1772-1834)

spring in new york: greenwich village, life outdoors