Some pictorial notes from here, there, and elsewhere

Coming into the evening from below the terrain - leaving the No. 2/3 train subway station and exiting onto Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

Stately Eastern Parkway. Costs a bundle these days to live here.

Bland food from Switzerland: macaroni and cheese with potatoes, and potato-leek soup.

Macaroni and cheese with potatoes and ketchup.

Stairway to the stars - or, stairway at Rafik's video dubbing house, Broadway, Manhattan

The lobby of the Spanish Museum, Morningside Heights, on a rainy day.

Moving day. From the window of the Chinatown bus, before we depart for Philadelphia. Round-trip to Philly: $15.00. Cannot beat that.

An offer for gentlemen from a lady - a discreet message on the top of a taxi. Chinatown bus heads to the Holland Tunnel.

All too soon, we're in Philadelphia. Where there's still room to grow, apparently.

Ok. That was Philly, and now the bus is heading back to Chinatown through the streets of New York.

Then off to Coney Island on the Fourth of July.

The Collection of Silence - A Project by Eileen Myles, Tuesdays on the Terrace, Dia at the Hispanic Society of America

Back in Brooklyn, feelin' that NYC was kinda crummy...until I took a serious look skywards

On the road in Milan, Trento and Bolzano...

Trento, the Palace of the Archbishop, a musem...and other pics from Trento follow...

And on to Bolzano. On a bridge above the Adige River, bikes cut loose, but locks remain.

Then an education in Fascist-era Architecture. Not pretty, nor graceful - compare to the few images of Renaissance Architecture from Trento, above.

Then on to Milan, where one does one's penance at the Duomo.

The Flayed San Bartolomeo by artist Marco d’Agrate dates from 1562. A truly remarkable statue, as the Saint appears with his skin draped around him.

Then on to more of the details, the artwork and the architecture of the cathedral.

A sarcophagus of the De Medici's, and below, a confessional.

The Baptismal font

A reliquary of St. Sebastian, and then the cathedral's exterior.

La Scala...then from the sublime to the sublimely ordinary - shop windows of a door store on the Viale Lombardia, Milan.

On the Metropolitana.

Lo-res perspective from the vaporetto, Venice