Annie's Blog

We walked down to the peninsular in the Inwood Hill park last night...and saw a bit of the Shakespeare in the park... The Merchant of Venice....there is a bit of sky there if you look hard enough! I guess this will be the last of my skies from NYC...for a while...until I return...! Maybe next year! A bit misty earlier in the week.... but finer and sunny on Sunday....W86th street.... and Riverside Drive, Upper West Side...... back to Inwood again.... a couple of sunsets were captured down by the peninsular.... and another sunny day to end my stay...before the rain sets in today (Thursday)....

We spend quite a bit of time in the park ...I love looking at the fungus starting to break down all the old vegetation! They were all out playing baseball the other day. There are at least 4 baseball diamonds in the Inwood Park. and of course all the spring blossoms are starting ..... I wandered down to the Columbia Presbyterian Medical school ....always an amazing place! the chapel and garden are always delightful, and spring is blossoming there too! Another walk in the park....I love the massive rocks that New York is built on. I find it so hard to photograph them to show their size. the squirrels are out ...this one was a black one...the ones I see are usually brown... We wandered through 103rd street to the station on Sunday coming back from church... I guess this is technically probably part of Harlem.... On our wander along Riverside Drive I was struck again by how bare and grey brown everything is in winter, but there are bright moments of color that stand out every now and the...