
This one’s from April, 2009.



In addition to the fireworks, NY hosts a costumed 4-mile midnight run on New Year’s Eve.











Last couple of shots from a Thanskgiving morning stroll in Central Park.

One of the beauties of Central Park used to be the way you could be isolated from the surrounding city, not even able to see the buildings from many spots. Greedy developers and craven politicians have put paid to that. Here’s the new Central Park south skyline: needle-nose buildings of empty luxury apartments, used by mostly foreign oligarchs and petty despots to park and/or launder their ill-gotten gains.


Thanksgiving morning continues to yield some lovely late-Autumn foliage and vistas. Click either image to see them both enlarged (mobile device results may vary).




The Central Park Lake was particularly lovely thanksgiving morning. Click any image to see them all bigger individually (mobile device results may vary).






Our walk in Central Park on Thanksgiving morning yielded lots of gorgeous Autumn landscapes (enhanced by the use of Fujifilm Velvia). More to come. Click any image to see them all enlarged (mobile device results may vary).



We didn’t really set out to see the parade, just taking a walk in the park on Thanksgiving morning, but we couldn’t help seeing some of the floats through the trees as we went. Click any image to see them all bigger (mobile device results may vary).