Showing posts with label Flatiron District. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flatiron District. Show all posts

Thursday, February 20, 2014

A Breath of Spring...sort of

The Flatiron Building is one of my all time favorite photographic subjects


Isn't it funny that after some bitterly cold weather a sunny day at 38 degrees feels warm??? I went out with only one coat and no scarf or hood on my head. I saw people carrying their coats. Thirty-eight isn't warm but it's hopeful!

There's still time for plenty of winter though tomorrow we'll have rain again.

Morning temperature: 38 degrees
Morning steps: 7280

Monday, December 2, 2013

Morning Walk #151 - Spaceship Landing


This just in - Spaceship lands at the Flatiron Building!


43 degrees & 60% humidity

Kind of gray

People are not looking happy to be going back to work after the Thanksgiving break. Even the children looked hungover.

Standing behind a man with a messenger bag and a laptop case crisscrossed over his shoulders...and a Speedo hanging from a hook on the laptop case...

Steps: 6116



Monday, November 25, 2013

Morning Walk #146

Even the street is wishing us Happy Holidays!


23 degrees & 48% humidity

Dogs not appreciating the cold

Monday morning commuters are fewer

Poinsettias appearing in store windows

Stores starting to extend hours for the shopping season

Steps: 6650

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Morning Walk #43 - Flatiron District & Madison Square Park

Best idea yet for people with brown thumbs - plant a big rock in your planter!  If you want some color just paint it! (Of course, those stubborn weeds may still grow around it.)


73 degrees, hazy and 87% humidity

A street cleaner truck is stopped at a corner as I walk a couple blocks towards it.  Naturally it decides to honk when I step into the street.

An impromptu PVC pipe drains water from somewhere high above...maybe from a scary source

Looking at the sidewalk vault lights on 19th & Fifth.  These little thick glass lenses were put in sidewalks to allow daylight through to the basements below.  I've seen the prisms used on old sailing
ships also.

Quote on a Spa sign:  "Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you" - Rumi.  The first service listed on the sign is the colonic followed by other de-tox services.

Two men doing tai chi in the park...not together.  One man's routine is interrupted when he stops to take a phone call.

A park employee with fire engine red hair sets up tables

Most of the city parks have a closing time...10pm, midnight, 1am.  Some have gates that can be locked, others have barricades that are moved in.  Many have tables and chairs that are stacked and locked together every night...then redistributed every morning.  The daily process provides jobs but would it be cheaper to risk theft?

Many stores advertise 4th of July sales.  I know when I think of the 4th of July I immediately think of shopping for bargains.

Many people will have a day off tomorrow but I don't see the anticipation in their faces

Steps: 7426