June 5, 2018 at 2:04 am (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Family, Filipino Writers, Places, Recommended)
Tags: memories, Mondays, New York, novel, reading lists
Self loves As Lie Is To Grin when the narrator simply describes what he sees as he moves about New York City:
I exited the station at West Eighth Street, heading north, and stood on a traffic island, watching small plane lights appear in the darkness behind One World Trade Center.
She would love to have this book as a walking guide when she is actually in New York City, a city that is dear to her heart because that is where her parents met: her father was a law student at Georgetown, and her mother was a classical pianist who had given concerts at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher. Painfully, that is also where her older sister died, so many years ago.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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October 8, 2017 at 8:21 pm (destinations, Places, postaday, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: art, London, memories, museums, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
There’s a theme to the photographs here, self’s second post on The Daily Post’s Photo Challenge of the week, PEDESTRIANS.
- The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City:
- The Atrium, Robert Lehman Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City:
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October 6, 2017 at 5:34 pm (Family, Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, farmers markets, happiness, memories, New York, postaday, postaweek, Sacramento, summer, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is PEDESTRIAN:
- What does PEDESTRIAN mean to you? Perhaps this is a great chance to go out and practice some street photography.
— Krista Stevens, The Daily Post
So, here are three street scenes. They’re not the greatest, but they certainly were street:
New York City: September 2017
Jennie, Son, and Self in the Claremont, CA Farmers Market: July 2017
Downtown Sacramento, CA: July 2017
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September 30, 2017 at 4:14 pm (Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: California, New York, postaday, postaweek, Saturday, Wordpress
Self loves windows. She really, really does.
Sitting by Window, In Reflective Mode
Watertower View, Chelsea District, New York City
Home, Redwood City, California
Other Windows:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 27, 2017 at 11:27 pm (Links, Places, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: California, New York, Palo Alto, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Self loves windows in general. So she loves this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge: WINDOWS.
The prompt was to use the window as a frame. But her post uses the windows themselves as objects.
In the first picture, the windows transform a building in New York’s Chelsea Building into a kind of illuminated box. In the second, the airconditioning units sticking out of the windows were what caught her eye. In the third, the window is a wee cut-out in an expanse of grey wall, the only shot of life in a very industrial-looking room.
Night, Chelsea District, New York City: September 2017
More Windows, Chelsea District, New York City: September 2017
Minimalist: Window of a Mini-Eichler, Palo Alto, California
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 25, 2017 at 6:48 pm (destinations, Flowers, Places, Plays, postaday, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cal Shakes, California, memories, Mondays, museum, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Bruins Amphitheatre, Orinda
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City: The squares are on the ground level, the woman taking the picture is on the 4th? 5th? Floor.
New York City, View from the Chelsea District
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September 18, 2017 at 1:17 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Filipino Writers, Places, postaday, Sayings, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: 9/11, inspiration, memories, Mondays, New York, postaday, postaweek, Wordpress
Share a snapshot that shows a sense of waiting.
— Cheri Lucas Rowlands, The Daily Post
First, self’s Philippine passport. She is a dual citizen of the Philippines and the United States. This passport dates from the time when she first entered the U.S., to begin grad studies at Stanford:
Final picture: Last week, self was in New York for her nephew’s wedding. On September 11, she decided to go to the Whitney on Gansevoort Street, her favorite Manhattan museum. She started at the top floor (the Calders) and worked her way down.
On the top floor, there’s a restaurant with stunning views. She saw the Statue of Liberty:
Sept. 11, 2017: “Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses . . . “
Immigrants. Self was an immigrant once.
Stay tuned.
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September 13, 2017 at 3:25 pm (Food and Drink, Links, Places, Recommended, television, Traveling)
Tags: art, comedy, exhibits, museums, New York, photography, websites
Love doing Cee’s Fun Foto Challenges!
The Theme for this week is the Letter D.
D is for DECK:
8th Floor, Whitney Museum of American Art, Gansevoort Street, New York City: The view from the rooftop café is simply fabulous.
D is for DOTS:
Alexander Calder at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 8th Floor
D is for (Remember the) DATE:
Billboard, New York City, Early September 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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September 11, 2017 at 1:39 pm (Aunts, Dearest Mum, Family, Lists, Niece, Pianos, Places, Relatives, Traveling)
Tags: 9/11, Events, grief, memorials, memories, Mondays, New York, transitions
This city holds a special place in self’s memories:
- Dearest Mum began her piano career here, at Carnegie Hall.
- Self worked here for a year, before entering the Stanford Creative Writing Program.
- Her sister was married here, 1982.
- Her sister gave birth to three children here, one of whom was married here, two days ago.
- Her sister died here, December 19, 1991.
Because self is at the moment staying in Chelsea, here’s a view of this amazing city, on 9/11:
New York City: 9/11/2017
Here are pictures of the children who were, respectively, six, five and six months old when self’s sister passed away:
William and Christopher Blackett, 9 September 2017
Georgina Isabella: 9 September 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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