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This Wondrous Summertime World
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere – Vincent van Gogh Beauty has not been hard to find this summer, despite the heat. Almost everywhere I’ve gone, and I’ve moved around a fair amount, I’ve been hyper-conscious of … Continue reading
Posted in HISTORIC PRESERVATION, HUDSON VALLEY, LONG ISLAND, ROAD TRIPS
Tagged Brooklyn Museum, Roosevelt Island, Schenectady, Stockade District
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Brooklyn the Beautiful
WITH DAFFODIL FOLIAGE PUSHING UP in the front yards of brownstone Brooklyn, the winter of my content is coming to an end. I’ve enjoyed this uninterrupted two-month spell of life in my ever-amazing home borough, where you see things like … Continue reading
Downtown Brooklyn’s Muscular Architecture
MANY OF THE WORKS in the current exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, “Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties,” represent — appropriately enough, since the 1920s was a time of sexual liberation no less than the 1960s — the … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, BROOKLYN, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged Brooklyn Museum, Charles Sheeler, downtown Brooklyn, Youth and Beauty
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ISO Brooklyn Pied-a-Terre
EMBRACE CHANGE, DON’T BATTLE IT. A fortune cookie said it, so it must be good advice. I like that action verb “embrace.” Not “welcome” change, receptively — no, no, go out and give it a big hug. Reach for it, … Continue reading
Posted in MISCELLANEOUS
Tagged BROOKLYN, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Museum, East Hampton, Hamptons, pied a terre, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Springs
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