Central Park Birdbath

A birdbath in the Conservatory Garden in Central Park.

These guys were having a ball

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Museum of Modern Art - Frida (and Carol)

Frida Kahlo - Self Portrait with Carol.


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Museum of Modern Art - Van Gogh

Starry Night. A classic.

Museum of Modern Art - Chagall

I've been a fan of Marc Chagall ever since I saw his stained glass windows at the Fraumünster in Zurich, Switzerland.

I and the village

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Painted the year after Chagall came to Paris, I and the Village evokes his memories of his native Hasidic community outside Vitebsk. In the village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to cow, connecting their eyes. The peasant's flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity's link to the universe, and the painting's large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth.

The geometries of I and the Village are inspired by the broken planes of Cubism, but Chagall's is a personalized version. As a boy he had loved geometry: "Lines, angles, triangles, squares," he would later recall, "carried me far away to enchanting horizons." Conversely, in Paris he used a disjunctive geometric structure to carry him back home. Where Cubism was mainly an art of urban avant-garde society, I and the Village is nostalgic and magical, a rural fairy tale: objects jumble together, scale shifts abruptly, and a woman and two houses, at the painting's top, stand upside-down. "For the Cubists," Chagall said, "a painting was a surface covered with forms in a certain order. For me a painting is a surface covered with representations of things . . . in which logic and illustration have no importance."

Museum of Modern Art - Picasso

Carol pondering the proper placement of body parts.

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Jazz combo.

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Museum of Modern Art - Monet

Claude Monet. Water Lilies. 1914–26. Oil on canvas, three panels, Each 6' 6 3/4" x 13' 11 1/4" (200 x 424.8 cm), overall 6' 6 3/4" x 41' 10 3/8" (200 x 1276 cm).

I overheard Carol saying, "I could do that!"

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42 feet of Monet

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Another perspective.

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Close-up

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M&M Store

A few pictures from the M&M store in Times Square. It was 3 stories of deliciousness. Here are just a few pictures of it.

Yummy! And the candy looks good too.

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Mixed colors

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A double rainbow, what does it mean?!?!?

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Patels

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Coffee mugs

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Cult Temple on 5th Avenue

Here is the Temple of the Great Cult in NYC.

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The penitents going to worship their god.

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Carol, Ron, and Katie

Pictures of our flight out to NYC. We were in Business Class. Katie Couric was in First Class. Pierce Brosnan sat in the same seat as Katie on the flight home. Didn't get any pictures of him, though.

Carol

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Ron

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Katie

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Never Forget

We arrived in NYC on September 11th. After grabbing some dinner and wandering around a crowded Times Square (it was Sunday, and September 11) we went back to our 41st floor hotel room. We were staying in Times Square and our windows were facing downtown. When I opened the curtains we saw the 9/11 WTC Twin Tower tribute, and the Empire State Building emblazoned in Red, White, and Blue.

Empire State Building and WTC Twin Towers tribute.

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The twin lights reaching to the skies.

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