Rainy day blues: on the B52 Gates Avenue bus, Bed-Stuy

Foggy morning in the park

The block ahead -- soft, wet, and misty -- perfect early fall weather

I follow my neighbor into the park where people are working out, jogging, going to school, going to work

  

 

Misty morning glories by the playing field

Here's another of those Freudian views of a pathway through rows of trees

 

 

If you stand still long enough, the squirrels stop running away, and some become downright curious...

the last of the roses at Lafayette and Tompkins

The Christian Brothers visit the park

On my way home, I pass the 79th Precinct...never far away; and below, the One Kiln Community Farm on Greene Ave., a relative newcomer to the 'hood.

 

The snack trucks line up at the Greene Deli, which is run by these really nice guys from Yemen, who have informed me that Yemen is beautiful and green.

Brooklyn, Queens, and Life Underground

 

I came home yesterday to this large sign hanging from the roof. What's goin' on?

This explains it nicely. I joined in and made calls to Michigan on the President's behalf.

The corner of 45th and Jackson, Long Island City, Queens

And a Mexican Restaurant in Williamsburg.

The jury-rigged house on the corner of Nostrand and Lafayette Aves., Brooklyn, and below, a small rat transports a large fragment of pizza crust across the subway tracks (sorry for the blurriness -- camera was just not up to shooting an action scene in low light).

 

 

At the NY Art Book Fair, Dr. Laurie Weeks reads from her recent essay about Nicole Eisenman's work. Great, and gorgeous, as usual.

 

Views out the window. Sometimes it's good to stare out a window whilst being read to.

A $20,000 book and the NY Art Book Fair.

The book can only be opened by an expert.

A sample page from the $20,000 book -- all glitter -- with a dark slice of my shadow running up the center.