Monday, May 13, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
spring in New York!
somewhere in my Brooklyn neighborhood...
Now days I feel I am in a dream, hoping not to wake up and lose the spectacular beauty surrounding me. This beauty belongs to New York and to everyone fortunate enough to be here!
Since I came back a week ago, I haven't stopped being in absolute awe faced with the bursting colours of everything in bloom! Spring is lovely anywhere, but in New York is an even greater spectacle. Is it the fact that being in a huge metropolitan area you just do not expect so much natural beauty? Is it because cities tend to be a mixture of concrete, pollution, noise and fumes and not woods and parks, lakes and ponds, front doors and stoops bursting with beautiful plants and colours? Whatever the reason, New York has taken my heart and dazzled me; it has become synonymous with beauty, smiles, blooms and the land of dreams.
I love living [part time] here!
Since I came back a week ago, I haven't stopped being in absolute awe faced with the bursting colours of everything in bloom! Spring is lovely anywhere, but in New York is an even greater spectacle. Is it the fact that being in a huge metropolitan area you just do not expect so much natural beauty? Is it because cities tend to be a mixture of concrete, pollution, noise and fumes and not woods and parks, lakes and ponds, front doors and stoops bursting with beautiful plants and colours? Whatever the reason, New York has taken my heart and dazzled me; it has become synonymous with beauty, smiles, blooms and the land of dreams.
I love living [part time] here!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Saturday, December 29, 2012
it's all about...
old and new traditions in New York!
my window view to Prospect Park
Season decorations on 5th Avenue
Fashionable couple ready for New Year's celebration at a Bergdorf and Goodman window
Everywhere I lived, this time of the year was "coloured" by the local traditions mixed with my very own. As time goes by, I recognize and appreciate even more the value of these traditions, the power of the "rituals" performed every December and reinforced by our own participation in the history of generations honoring them.
This Christmas marked the beginning of a new tradition for my family, as we've all gathered to celebrate in New York, home for some of us, "new home" away from home for me.
Once again I was reminded that holidays are special times wherever we are, the traditions transform any new environment into "home" and as long as we are surrounded by our loved ones... we are always "home"!
Saturday, October 27, 2012
hip hip hooray...
with Hipstamatic!
Out and about in my Brooklyn neighborhood, camera and iPhone in hand and here are the results!
Do you detect a morbid theme? A dark element throughout???
I guess the garish Halloween decorations everywhere succeeded in a rather subliminal fashion to inspire me...
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