Blizzard

The Holiday Blizzard came a little early - on the last day of fall - with at least two feet of snow. We will have a white Christmas to remember!
The storm blew in on Wednesday and snowed for about 36 straight hours. We had to shovel out twice. By Thursday afternoon, the neighborhood was pretty much dug out, at least to the two tire tracks in the middle of the street. Today was actually a beautiful day if you weren't sitting in the closed airport or stuck on the road somewhere. The wind quit blowing and the snow stopped falling. Everyone was outside enjoying the day off work and playing in the snow after shoveling. We had an impromptu homemade Limoncello-tasting while standing in the driveway.
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New York Minute

Sorry it has been so long since I've posted a story. We went to New York City for nine days over Thanksgiving to visit Geri's cousin Jeanne, who lives on the upper West side of Manhattan. As usual, we covered a lot of ground by foot, cab, train, ferry, car, bus and plane.
Here is a list of the highlights:
"The Drowsy Chaperone", a play at the Marquis Theatre in Times Square. It's one of the hottest shows on Broadway and it was very funny.
Geri's belated birthday dinner at Blue Smoke, a really good Danny Meyer's barbecue restaurant.
The Statue of Liberty National Monument. We took the last ferry back to the city at dusk. It was cold, but the skyline was beautiful.
A lunch of grilled cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries and shakes at The Shake Shack in Madison Square Park.
Top Of The Rock Observation Deck at sunset. Again, a bit cool but that's to be expected from the exterior of the 70th floor of Rockefeller Plaza.
Hanging out with our friend, Kack, and touring her new penthouse condo.
The Brooklyn Museum exhibit, 'Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life' featuring more than 200 photographs debuting before an international tour. The show is based around a new book by the same title which I am hoping to get for Christmas - hint, hint.
Another amazing show, 'Ron Mueck Sculpture' at the Brooklyn Museum, eleven works by an artist known for his extraordinarily lifelike renderings of his subjects, either smaller or larger than life-size.
It rained on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but that actually made it more interesting to photograph!
A bus trip to Southbury, Conn. to visit Geri's Aunt Eileen, for Thanksgiving dinner and a two-night sleepover.
'Americans in Paris' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a rather large show of American impressionist painters who studied in Paris in the late 1800's including John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt and others.
And a long walk through Central Park where I came across a newly-wedded couple from Queens, who were married at the courthouse and visited the park for pictures. If you would like to see a slideshow from our trip. CLICK HERE: New York Minute
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