Summer stoops

Now that the heat wave has finally broken, we can enjoy sitting outside...









Previously.

Hot afternoon in Tompkins Square

The key to the city...

Nature persists

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.  - Aristotle


A green bottle fly relaxing in El Jardin de Paraiso on E 5th Street.


A bumble bee coming in for a landing in Tompkins Square Park.


An afternoon siesta in  the 9th Street Community Garden on Avenue C.


A living art display in El Jardin de Paraiso.

See more marvelous creatures here.

What heat wave?

Is it hot out?  I hadn't noticed...















Cool off with more snowy scenes here.

Sanitized

What a difference two years make.

July 2011:



July 2013:



I have no words...

Previously.

See many more photos here.

Rally for Trayvon Martin

After the verdict was announced in the Trayvon Martin murder case, protesters rallied in Union Square.













See more photos here.

Happy fly

Little Fly
Thy summer's play,
My thoughtless hand
Has brush'd away.



Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?



For I dance
And drink & sing;
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.



If thought is life
And strength & breath;
And the want
Of thought is death;



Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.

-- William Blake

Summer days

El Jardin de Paraiso on E 5th Street...



See more photos of the garden here.

This land is your land

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

- Nelson Mandela