Sent by astute reader A and this is good information for anyone… http://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/2016/09/05/central-park-lampposts-secret-code/ each ornate lamppost has a unique number inscribed on the base of the pole that actually acts as a navigational tool for travellers and locals alike looking to find out where exactly in the park they are. The first two or three …
Monthly Archives: September 2017
A View from the Porch
Dirty Dancing
The location for this movie was ungraciously jury-rigged together between a deserted boys camp and some other unseemly and unlikely place. Where the producers really wanted to be was at Scott’s on a small lake nearby here. When Scouters approached the owners all those years ago, to use their site for a small indie film, …
Tulips!
Today, for the first time in more than a decade I planted tulip bulbs: yellow, red, purple, allium and daffodils. How wondrous if all of life had the same surety that the planting of bulbs does.
Sneaky Season
`Fall is a sneaky season. As I watch the leaves gently wafting to the ground, that is what they do, I realize it’s a precursor to snow flakes taking the same path. In the back and along the perimeter of the yard are pine trees. They basically do little but stand around being green and …
An Aside
In reading an article about an Off-Broadway play, the star is from Clatskanie, Or. Now I thought I was in-the-know when I knew about Gaston Or, the home of the twins in the Off-Broadway burlesque show, but Clatskanie? Beyond my ken.
GOOD GRIEF!
are for our? what is this world coming to!
Update
on Wonderful Woman gathering. Thought that perhaps we could do this once-a-quarter, didn’t want to presume. The group decided once-a-month! So soup and whatever for the month of October and many had someone new to bring. I saw two of the invitees who did not attend – and most likely won’t as they did not …
Wonderful Women Happened
!5 women who live in the surrounds all gathered to chat, gripe about the internet [not men] and hear each others stories on how they came to be here in this upstate New York area. It was delightful beyond measure. Everyone, as trite as this reads, left with a new friend and some discovered each …
How States ID Themselves
Driving is such a treat – a few more notes on my drive to Nova Scotia and back. On the way up, had a laugh at how the States advertise themselves: Pennsylvania simply says: Pennsylvania Welcomes You New York? It’s all about ‘me’/self-absorbed. With the ‘I heart’ and what one can do in the State. …