Weekend Reflections

In a Budapest café . . .

Weekend Reflections

There are shops all along rue de Seine,
in Saint Germain des Prés, that are filled
with curiosities and collectibles.
This one even includes me (twice).
But mostly I wanted to have a photo with a 
reflection and a circle today, because it's 3.14—Pi Day! 

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Don't know if this happens to you when you're
traveling and taking a zillion pictures, but for me
a theme usually emerges—and for last month's
trip to Paris it turned out to be . . . vines!

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The Ponte Vecchio, seen from the terrace of the
Hotel Lungarno  (where I can't afford to stay but I can
afford to have a drink and enjoy the world-class view).

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In the Japanese garden at the Brooklyn Botanic,
the leaves on this weeping tree were only
just staring to turn yellow a couple of weeks ago.
Mostly, though, the whole scene was still green—even the lake.

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There's always some interesting public
art in City Hall Park.  This is "Suncatcher,"
by the French conceptualist Daniel Buren;
it's part of the current exhibit, called
The Lightness of Being—a group show featuring
"playful" works by 11 different artists.

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These beautiful French copper pots belong to
friends of mine who used to have a place
in Paris—and know how to use them.
I'm no French chef, but I can see bouillabaisse
bubbling in the big one, chocolate melting for a mousse
in the double boiler, and coq au vin in the casserole.

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The water lilies may be my very
favorite end-of-season flowers at the
botanic garden.  BTW, the building that's
also reflected here is an apartment complex
they named Ebbetts Field because it was built where
they tore down the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Back in July, I showed you the very elegant
entrance lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.  Here's
the back door—not exactly a mud room, is it?

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I don't have a terrific reflection shot this week,
but I wanted to play along and happened to
take this picture at 80th and Amsterdam recently.
Out of curiosity, I checked reviews for this
Italian restaurant on Yelp. With websites like that
around, you'd think everyone would try to do better.

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Happened to pass by the Good Morning America
studio on my way to work the other day. Lots
going on in there—and outside their fishbowl
in the always crazy Times Square area.

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I was crossing the Brooklyn Bridge at
just the right time to see the setting sun
glinting off these windows in DUMBO
(Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass).

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I've had some errands to run west of my office
lately, and I've had to be out in the middle
of the day, with the temp hovering
around 100°F (38°C).  I always cut through
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel—it's beautiful and cool.
(This is where the president stays whenever he's
in town, and you can't get anywhere near the place then.)

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Mirrored in this Nolita storefront window is
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral (completed in 1815) .  It was
the original seat of the NYC Catholic archdiocese
before they built St. Patricks's on Fifth Avenue; now it's
a parish that reflects the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood—
Sunday masses are in English, Spanish, and Chinese.

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This early-17th-century nautilus cup is just one
 of too-many-to-count things gifted to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art by J. Pierpont Morgan.
The silver gilt mounts depict Neptune riding a whale,
with Jonah emerging unscathed from its mouth.
(Even the shell alone would be beautiful enough, I think.)

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This is Bar Corvo, a great new(ish)
restaurant in my Brooklyn neighborhood.
They don't take reservations, but we
like to get there early and have our meal
at the kitchen bar so we can watch the
chefs do their delicious thing.

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It's another gorgeous day here in NYC.
Hope you're enjoying sunny weather
wherever you are too!

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Interesting advice.

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I spent the afternoon at the Met yesterday,
where I saw lots of beautiful things—
among them this 17th-century Dutch goblet.
Etched on the glass is a copy of a 1555 map that shows
the course of the Rhine River from Mainz to Utrecht.

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I'm running low on local reflections, so here's
one I love from a beautiful sunny day
in Venice.  Wish I were there right now!
(Or how about a little sunshine here in NYC at least?)

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