Last Day in NYC

It hasn't been scorching hot here, thank goodness. I had worried about that in advance.
Today Marcia, Jim & I will go to the Julia Richmond Public School quite close to Rockfeller University where Meridee works as the Chief Occupational Nurse. She give doctors and lab technicians their shots, helps them prepare for travel in foreign lands with foreign diseases, deals with concerns for whether the lab monkeys might get infected by someone with latent TB, accidents in the facility, etc.  It's a fascinating job with brilliant people all around and she's not retiring yet. Still having too much fun.

It has been great staying with her in NYC and renewing our friendship. Our grandmothers were friends. I once sent her a picture of that! Joan Cannady Countryman was Meridee's suite mate for 4 Sarah Lawrence College years. Joan & I both took 4 years of math with Ed Cogan.  Marcia Moeller Tendick was my roommate sophomore year. She and her husband Jim are also staying at Meridee's.

Farewell from Broadway.

That's it for now.

Another Day in NYC

I certainly hadn't heard about this project when it was happening in Vancouver! Out on Spanish Banks a man [many people?] had raked this pattern into the low tide sand.

It's rather like the amazing snowshoe track patterns that were like crop circles.
The tide does come in!
But how sublime, even from sea level. Beachwalkers were as surprised as I in NYC discovering this much much later.

This piece as also in the dust and dirt show at the Museum of Art & Design. 

Crows carved from charcoaled wood!

And here, fantastically enough, are the ashes of various "great books" placed in various wine glasses. WHAT a concept! And the effect was eerie.

I had thoughts, the day I went to MoMA with Susie Hambleton, that NYC is quite chaotic, but everyone knows how to handle it.  Street-crossing sometimes requires an act of courage!

I know this is not like street crossing in Delhi, but....

Elsworth Kelly wall at MoMA. I loved this wall. Shadows, shapes, color & all and somewhat reminding me of a staff of written music. Color chords! We saw a fabulous show there of ecstatic alphabets. I'd have loved to take photos, but it was closed to cameras.

You may well ask!! The MoMA store has amazing t.h.i.n.g.s in it. I'm wearing this shirt now. I fell in love with the packaging. All but the last photo was taken on Meridee's piano, which accounts for the color shift.

The next night I went to Sarah Lawrence. Here's the first reunion photo.

Marcia Moeller Tendick on my left, Joan Cannady Countryman, my co-classmate for several math courses with Ed Cogan, & Meridee Noyes Brust.

There's lots more to share, but that's it for now.

On the East Coast

 I'm in New York right now, here for my 50th reunion of the class of 1962 at Sarah Lawrence College. Thirty-three of us are gathered.

The day before going up to the college I went to the Museum of Art & Design, which is what the Craft Museum morphed into. One of the shows I saw was about dust & dirt. This gorgeous wallpaper-like pattern was made by silk-screening something sticky onto paper and leaving said paper by an open window to attract pollution & dust from the ambient atmosphere. Pretty nifty!!

Another item was a "quilt" made from papers made from laundry lint!

That day my friend Susie went to the Highliner. It's a park that was built on an old elevated rain line.  It is brilliantly executed. It's sublime being up there. I hope to return again there on Monday with some other friends.

I loved this amphitheater. The "stage" is the street below. How perfect is that? Susan told me people have weddings here. And you, dear reader, don't miss the yellow billboard!!

This park offers all manner of spaciousness and tightness, all manner of architecture. 

A Frank Geary building, I love it.

This is a birdhouse sculpture. See that peculiar box in the lefthand photo? The only birds I could imagine nesting here were starlings & I'm not overly fond of starlings unless they are murmurating.  Or maybe English Sparrows....I started thinking about rats too... No birds would have a chance....

  

                    I totally love the accidentally captured smooching couple!!!

By now you know I love this stuff Cracks between buildings! 

One of so many High Liner gardens. I'm having a lovely time.

That's it for now.

Doings in Boulder

 

Take-off at 6:45 am from Vancouver, May 17.

It was a lovely fresh morning. Haze meant that this was pretty much all I could really see.

There was a fire in Ft. Collins CO, which had really spread in 3 days.

We got to Boulder @ 10:30.
The trip was uneventful except for George getting the special frisking treatment at YVR in Security. Jokes about that of course & questions.

Afternoon & dinner with Karl & Sarah, Ben, Danny & Joe. I meet Helen, Sarah's mother for the first time.

Ben has to wear a brace after school. He has scoliosis which is being treated this way. He used to have to wear it much more, but now it's just for a few hours.

There is much excitement because Ben, who plays the piano well, has just acquired a family Steinway baby grand that was built in the 1920s. It needs a lot of work, mainly tuning for now.  He's going to be in grade 9.

Danny is about to be a senior at the school that Joe is graduating from.

He's having a lot of fun with the drama club.

Joe, on not much sleep.

That night he went to a rock concert and met a famous DJ who was standing near him in the audience.

Of course I hadn't heard of him!

Saturday we had a scramble golf game. Two teams with 4 players each. The team plays the best ball on each shot. Pop & Da Boyz vs. Karl & Da Goils.

 I decided not to play. I hadn't ever even walked a game through before!

We had a lot of fun.
The course was gorgeous.
The sky was grey so we weren't too hot.
I played ball spotter.
Karl's team did 3 pars & one birdie.
So they won.
George was happy because he sunk some long putts & got to play with 3  grandsons.

It rained for the 9th hole, just enough so we could be proud of toughing it out, but not enough to be miserable.

That night, last night we went out for a traditional (for us when we visit) sushi supper.
I had my celery with me, as did everyone else. I could take pictures as all 4 teenage boys (including Jake, cousin) looked at the smart phone.  Much intensity!

                                                              Today is graduation.
                                                                That's it for now.

Feeling Sad

I learned today that Rick Bunning died of pancreatic cancer. He managed to survive 3 extra years with it.  He was our realtor that helped us sell & buy .This is how he looked around the time I sold my 3675 W. 15th Avenue place. He also helped us buy our new apartment. Such a nice man.

A photo I took from the roof of King's Landing in May 2008 & the inner courtyard just before we bought.

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Below the Erikson Building going up. This is right next to us to the east. 

Good bye to Rick Bunning. I'll miss him. There aren't many realtors like him.  Sadly.

                                                    That's it for now.