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Took a walk and some photo snaps this morning.


Looks like Louisiana’s and Pennsylvania’s senators take the B train.


This is one of the ceilings in the main public library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Remarkably for one who’s lived in NY for over 60 years, and whose birth was announced in the library’s employee newsletter, I’d never been inside before doing some research a week or so ago in the Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.



Some years (decades?) ago, I was taken with these “Post No Bills” stencils, much in the fashion of Allan Sillitoe’s The Death of William Posters. Above, one I shot recently; below images from years past. Click below to see them full-sized.












































Back in NYC for a couple of months this summer (been back over 3 weeks already, truth be told). I have not been tremendously inspired in my time back, so switching back to one post per day.

… at least according to Google’s image search.
Update: a reader says it’s too early for rhododendron and Google has it wrong – more likely oleander…



First really nice day of spring and crowds were out, all photographing the pink blossoms. I avoided them by lying down on the grass with my head propped up on the bottom of the tree trunk.




On this site once stood the Orpheum Theater, next to it on the corner, Gray’s Papaya, and to the right of that on Third Avenue, a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop where I worked evenings a few days a week in High School.


