assignment, the next

Read this.

What should our next assignment be? I was thinking of bridges....?

P.S. I am at work and bored...really wishing it were tomorrow and I were on the way to the Farm. I played with the template a little. If you don't like something, change it.

through the looking glass

These are pics taken at the library I work at.

View from the reading room. I love the stain glass panes we have at the top of the big windows.

You can see one of the city's churches across the road from us.

This is a winter project I did with my kids. Window painting for the holidays. These kids did an awesome job! My favorite window; note Snoopy's dog house and Charlie Brown!
I love that it looks so dark and sleepy in this picture. I intentionally took it this morning before the Library opened, so the lights were all still off. Thought it gave the window a sleepier quality, like what you might see through the window in the early morning, if you were waking up here...hmm...

This window also looks out at the church across the road.

barn windows

I suppose this is a series. Or maybe just three photos related by the barn.

Outside A Window

new assignment, anyone?

So... are we ready for a new assignment? Because I have a neat idea. Maybe. It could actually be crap. Anyway, when I woke up this morning, I looked out my window to see the world covered in snow and I thought, "wouldn't it be neat to share what we see out our windows?" So, that's my idea. The world outside the window. Take a picture of what you can see out of a window. Any window onto any scene. Yes? Do we like?

Here are my two pictures. I really liked this assignment, and only wished I had a better camera beyond my phone, because I think some quality pictures oculd come from this place.

Location: Manhattan, at Wall Street Stop on the 4,5 line(s). Literally, at the top of the subway stairs, between Wall Street and the American Stock Exchange is this cemetary. Alezander Hamilton is buried there, or so says the stone. I'll post the full range of pictures at another locale.

Why these two pictures? Well one, because it shows the juxaposition of modern subway with graves, and because I didn't know that guy was there when I took the shot. Freaked me out when I reviewed it. Had to double check it wasn't a ghost!

The second picture, shows the grave, with a flag and the American Stock Exchange in the background.

Monster, I get points for going at night!

my cemetery rock

I don't know what to call it, if anything. I also wanted to go out and get a better one at some point. I did not.

And for the record, Tizzy did stop at the same place. We took pictures of the same monument! Zoom in and read the inscriptions if you don't believe me.

2 for the show?

I thought first tall monument was quite stately.

The second is more simplistic and got me thinking...and I almost wondered if I should like to have myself remembered in just such a way... as someone's son... Anyone who visited would know be my name and the place I held in my family - that is all.

cemetary schmetary

This is from the little cemetary right off of the Taconic Parkway and 23 in Hillsdale, NY.

TSO and I stopped to complete the assignment en route to GF last Tuesday, after a painfully long car ride. I always wonder at the sense of renewal just knowing that I am so physically close to the farm. It was a nice place to stop, in spite of the rain and know that we were in the Berkshires!!

So glad to have spent a week with you all. Can't we all move back soon!?

P.S. The pic made me laugh because I thought of GF Steve when I saw the headstone!