Bench

I love benches but this one may not be so relaxing!

Snow & Rain

A little snow fell overnight but it was already melting in the rain by the time we went on our compost run. 

 

PS: They weren't collecting compost today! Yikes!

Art as Benches

These are the artful benches in East Harlem. I appreciate a good bench but I haven't tried them because they don't look so comfortable. Then again they aren't located in a spot where I feel the need to take a rest. I don't see people sitting on them much. From the top you can look down inside to discover that they have become litter traps. Still I like the look of them!

Morning temperature: 66 degrees (Yes, please!)

Steps: 8623

Gutsy Wind

A bench is telling me to "defy the masses"?????

We had a little snow last night but there was no trace of it this morning. The wind, however, was nasty! I probably should have headed in a direction that took me farther away from the river. Some of the gusts were blowing my full sized figure in directions I hadn't intended to go! When I see the word gusty in the weather report I often read it as gutsy. This morning those gusty winds were definitely gutsy!

I gave up sooner than I planned to because I couldn't keep my scarf and hood on my head for more than a few seconds at a time.

Morning temperature: 33 degrees
Morning steps: 4877

Hanging Out

Bench Predictions

Tribute to a Pet

On a bench in Madison Square Park

Is it a coincidence that these paw prints were in front of this bench?

Morning Walk #2 - Gramercy Park & Union Square Park

On a bench in Union Square Park

 



  

Men in business suits walking their kids to school

 

Pete's Tavern, established 1864

 

Various architecture from multiple decades as well as multiple centuries

 

The myserious and slightly creepy Gramercy Park (which was a swamp till 1833)

 

The Brotherhood Synagogue in the former Friends Meeting House (1859) which was a stop on the Underground Railroad

 

A man in a business suit performing Tai Chi in Union Square Park

 

Squirrels running up and down the mostly vacant park benches

 

A park employee rousting sleeping people on the benches

 

The Henry Kirke Brown statue of Abraham Lincoln cast in bronze in 1868

Steps:  7125