Tuesday, June 11, 2013
ABC Wednesday: The letter V
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Our World Tuesday: Weekend in Manhattan
The same scene greeted me when I reached LaGuardia Airport but it didn't stop me from taking shots from the cab on the way to the hotel.
I took some shots of a whirl of color from the different umbrellas but those didn't work too well.
The good news is I was in Manhattan for a wedding and this was the sky that greeted me Saturday morning for the wedding day.
I was so glad we didn't have pouring rain on Saturday.
I had a view of the Hudson River from my hotel room and there were sailors already out at 7:00 am when I got up.
It was a great morning for people to be out on the water.
There was some standing water in part of the patio area outside of the room where the wedding guests were partying but that didn't stop the children from having a blast outside.
When I went outside to check it out a little girl was doing a rousing rendition of singing in the rain.
I love to see children having fun.
It was nice to be able to get outside and see how green everything was.
I think trees and plants make a big difference in a city.
After the wedding reception I went back to my hotel to rest a bit.
I enjoyed shooting from my hotel window.
An even better place to shoot from is my sister and brother-in-laws balcony.
The shot above is rather iconic and I liked the reflections in the next shot.
I spotted some children playing basketball.
I like the greenish blue pointed roof tops.
It was nice for me to be able to take photographs from my sister's balcony with a different view to see up, down, right and left.
I didn't see an actual sunset but I liked the tinge of pink in the clouds.
There was also a hint of a pink cloud in the next reflection.
My sister says the Empire State Building is lit up in different colors every night which I didn't know about.
It is an entirely different view as the sun goes down.
Back at my hotel I took some night shots of the city lit up after dark.
Sunday I headed back to the airport to go home. It was a nice weekend and good to see my family as we are all spread out across the U.S.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
ABC Wednesday: U is for Under
When walking in Raleigh, NC where I live there are a lot of options.
Whenever I write about our greenway trail system I have to up the mileage as they keep adding to it.
For this post I looked it up and was surprised that we are up to 61 miles of trails.
That figure seemed high so I looked on the city site for the official map and saw the greenway system is in fact up to 117 miles of connected trails.
Some of the trails are paved, some are dirt, many follow creeks and come to lakes. I think part of what recently added so much mileage is the completion of 20 miles of trails linking northeast Raleigh with Johnston County that follow the Neuse River. Also, the difference in figures may be that some only include the portion within Raleigh city limits where others include the connected trails that go outside the city limits but are part of the same system. We didn't try to walk a 100 plus miles but did a U turn and headed home. Click for the home of ABC Wednesday.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Our World Tuesday: First walk of June
After a pleasantly cool spring it's beginning to feel like summer.
It's not too hot but is definitely warming up fast.
Bill and I went on a walk along a creek near my house this morning.
Everything is so green thanks to plentiful rain.
There's a chance of thunderstorms this afternoon.
Good that the morning didn't show any signs of storms to disrupt our walk.
I even spotted a little blue in the sky.
I didn't see any children but I spotted their rides. The red scooter is hard to miss.
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