Mist-erious New York
Moody reflections
Anew and golden…
“Be serious. Be passionate. Wake up” – Susan Sontag
(Sunrise on the beach, Miami 2012)
A natural sense of humor!
The same place… same time… next week.
Nature having a bit of a laugh!
(From Sandy to Athena, NJ)
Snapshots of a storm
The coast guard stands watch in NY harbor as Hurricane Sandy approaches
Fall-ing leaves… a lot fell in the first few hours as the winds picked up
It was nowhere as quiet as the picture! Lashing winds and rain at 60-100 mph
The river rushes in… slowly!
Well, to be fair, the name of this street is River Drive after all !
Inside the apartment complex – as the water started to rise
… and continued to rise…
… and then on into the lobby – and evacuation of the first floor
The leaves of fall – again
Cars slowly vanished into the swirling waters
Submerged!
Lake front property.
A disturbing darkness sets in as the street lights lose power first…
The darkness spreads as the storm rages on
The whole of downtown Manhattan went dark – in a half hour time frame… it was really weird to watch
THE AFTERMATH
Dark streets
Passing lights
Fallen trees…
… at every turn
And debris… this board was from none of the nearby building. Impaled onto a blunt tipped railing! Wouldn’t have wanted to be in the path of that
A flooded store… after the waters receded
Downtown Manhattan… day after the storm. Still largely dark
One beacon of light
And a few more
Three days later… the moon lends a hand in trying to light up the NY skyline! Still some ways to go…
The street lights come back on around home. Who knew normal could feel so good!
What does it all mean…
Don’t we all feel like this sometimes? :-)
(a mood… and a discarded balloon on the bank of the Hudson)
Add-vantage
Photographs by a very young friend… an interesting take
Cornered!
Different hats
Out on the water the world fades away…
Washed a-shore
Liberty – renewed strength…
… and glowing on
(snapshots of a summer evening at Liberty State Park)
Fire the imagination
Why do fireworks bring out the child in all of us… feel so good? Is it the feel of the sudden surprise bursting free of light and color into the darkness? Or is it the reaching up into the sky with beauty… beauty that can be seen from miles away?
What is it about fireworks that fire up the imagination?
(Fireworks over the Hudson… no particular occasion – 08/01/2012)
Summer…
Summer is here!
The word somehow holds within it the thought of long lazy days… fun and frolic… sun, sand, water…
Oh for the vacations of childhood ! – when holidays were measured in seasons, not as “number of paid vacation days” per year :-)
(A kid on the beach, one weekend at Cape Cod)
Within reach again
The final voyages of the Enterprise… by water this time! Still exhilarating to watch!!
The Space Shuttle being shuttled along the Hudson to its final resting place on the Intrepid Museum in NYC. There it will be within the reach of many dreams – ours to see and to wonder over for many years to come.
(on 06-06-2012)
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