One thing I love about NYC is that all you have to do is wander to find little surprises. Today started with this Tiles For America - a tribute to 911. This chain link fence was covered with hand painted tiles - many of them with people's names and ages, all with messages saying that these folks will never be forgotten. There were hundreds of tiles - an amazing memorial that seemed to spring out of nowhere. (Later I looked this up on line. You can read more about it here: http://www.tilesforamerica.com/nyc.html)
We decided to check out the new High Line park - NYC's latest public space created out of an old train track. We were absolutely blow away by how beautiful it was! Miles of walkway surrounded by greens and wild flowers with open spaces with built in seating. Every seating oasis was different - some had wooden loungers, one had a water feature, one had a glass window over the street where people could sit and watch traffic drive under them. We went expecting to walk just a little and then go do something else and wound up walking the entire trail and back. This picture is the start of it at the top of the village near the apartment.
Bill already mentioned that we saw Victor Garber (I was pretty uncool with my gaping mouth but he ignored me. He was on the phone talking to someone about how he was having company over and they were "bringing the kids tonight"....Bill and I spent the rest of the day talking about how we were hanging at Vic's house tonight with the kids...)
We had another sighting later in the day at the Union Square Farmer's Market - Lee Houck, one of the authors from this year's festival was at a booth selling maple syrup! Another nice surprise just from wandering around.
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What an awesome quick vacation! I'm so jealous. Love the artwork. Love the gaping mouth. I think the guy with the french fry shirt looks like Dave.
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