Spotted at the Camelot Days renaissance festival in Hollywood. I found squirrel and a bear playing human chess, but no moose.
Author: cochrancj
I am an American expat who loves to explore the world through the plate and is always curious to learn more.
A Fall Weekend In NYC – Part 1
My DH and I recently had the opportunity to take a long weekend in New York City. We ate, froze, walked our feet to nubbins, and loved every minute of our too short stay. This city is truly awe-inspiring and I forgot just how at home and at ease it makes me feel. This is the first batch of pictures processed from that trip.
Welcome to the Big Apple – LaGuardia airport.
Steel girders in the subway.
Our home base stop for the trip, the 42nd St. Times Square station.
NYPD @ Times Square.
U.S. flag in neon – Times Square.
Architectural details in Greenwich Village.
More architectural details in Greenwich Village.
Still more architectural details in Greenwich Village.
Trinity Church near Wall St., burial place of Alexander Hamilton.
Trinity Church near Wall St., burial place of Alexander Hamilton.
Trinity Church near Wall St., burial place of Alexander Hamilton.
Trinity Church near Wall St., burial place of Alexander Hamilton.
Light & shadow around the city.
Right out front of the New York Stock Exchange.
If you look close, the falling leaves look like yellow tickertape.
A frigid but beautiful Battery Park. The scouring winds kept most people away from the unprotected tip of NYC the day we went.
Part of the WWII monument in Battery Park.
November 18, 2011
Whoo hoo! This promises to make our sausage stuffing life much easier. The Kitchenaid stuffer attachment sucks.
November 17, 2011
Happy would-be birthday, Ma. I made carbonara to celebrate. Even though I was missing ingredients, the dish still kicked ass.
November 16, 2011
This aint diet food. Potato and Carrot Duck Hash, cooked in … wait for it … liquid gold (duck fat). So rich, so ducky.
November 15, 2011
It hadnt ever occurred to me that one can peel a pumpkin with a vegetable peeler until watching a pumpkin pro do so on Food Networks Halloween Wars. Until today, Ive been using a cleaver to peel my squash because thats how I roll.
November 14, 3011
Still decompressing from the Big Apple; dinner at the nearest diner.
November 13, 2011
Home again, home again, jiggedy-jig.
Our Big Apple souvenir – a Dalek made out of ARC-welded motorcycle parts scrap metal by the artists at Metal Park. We picked it up at Bryant Park, where the Holiday Shop kiosks had just opened (along with an ice skating rink). Too bad we didnt have more time to explore the NY Public Library – the original toys the Pooh characters are based on were there, along with the Gutenberg Bible and Jack Kerouacs harmonica.
November 12, 2011
Subway sculpture. This was just one of the mini scenes portrayed in bronze throughout the terminal depicting everything from subway workers and patrons to fat cats, political figures and city officials.
November 11, 2011
The Empire State Building all done up for Veterans Day from Top of the Rock (30 Rockefeller Center 70th floor). Thanks, love.
