Buzzing around NYC

Posted on October 6, 2011 by beeblu

Look up

Empire State Building

New York by Gehry

Breakfast at Sarabeth’s Central Park South

Sarabeth's Central Park South

Cycle Central Park

Central Park

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir

Look out

West view from ESB

Subway Uptown, Downtown, East and West

NYC subway

Shop vintage at David Owens

David Owens - Lower East Side

Picnic on the High Line…

The High Line

..with food from the market at Grand Central Station

Food Market at Grand Central Station

Explore Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station

Observe the passing parade in Times Square

Times Square

Walk Uptown

Time Warner Center

Muse at the Met

Little Dancer - Edgar Degas

Tipple at the 18th Floor

The 18th Floor at The Standard

Dine at Pastis

Pastis bar

Look down (or not if you suffer from vertigo 🙂 )

One of many views from ESB

Cruise the Hudson

A Downtown view from the Hudson

Walk Downtown

Flatiron Building

Reflect at the 9/11 Memorial

North Pool and Performing Arts Center

Weekly Photo Challenge: Textured

Posted on September 11, 2011 by beeblu

spacetime strings

warp and weft of the universe

connect all things

~~~

Rock

sky

Plant

Human

Weekly Photo Challenge: Path

Posted on September 9, 2011 by beeblu

I understand why you do,
You don’t know why I don’t,
the eternal divide between us

yet

radiating paths to the light
do not darken love,
the eternal bind that ties us

Weekly Photo Challenge: Up

Posted on September 2, 2011 by beeblu

Have been a bit snowed under this week, so haven’t written any poetry, nor read any blogs – have a lot of catching up to do this weekend…

In the meantime, here’s my contribution to this week’s photo challenge: different views looking up at the Sydney Opera House that I took a while ago with that archaic thing known as a film SLR 🙂

What a view there must be from up there

I’ve used the (damaged) photo below before for my poem Sometimes which I posted back in May but which fits in quite nicely with the ‘Up’ theme, too

Happy weekends, Fellow Bloggers 🙂

Weekly Photo Challenge: Flowers

Posted on August 20, 2011 by beeblu

It’s winter in Sydney, so I’m not feeling inspired to go on a photographic flower hunt or think beyond this postaweek’s literal theme, so here are a few I took last spring in the Sydney Botanic Gardens

Herb Garden Sundial

Kangaroo Paw (and Renzo Piano-designed buildings)

Kangaroo Paw

Spring Walk 2010

Wisteria

Spring Walk 2010

Ranunculus

Variegated Tulip

Ranunculus and Variegated Tulip

Herb Garden Sundial

Weekly Photo Challenge: Entrance

Posted on August 13, 2011 by beeblu

Creepy - Luna Park, Sydney

Welcoming - Bronte Beach Baths - Sydney

Weekly Photo Challenge: Mountains

Posted on August 10, 2011 by beeblu

These are pics from Mt Kosciuszko – Australia’s highest mountain – taken last Christmas, would you believe, in the middle of our summer.

Mt Kosciuszko walk

We do get snow in this wide brown land, sometimes even in summer

Snow's a bit of a novelty for me

The stats - at 2228m, not quite Everest

A view from the summit

Homewards - and 6km to a chilled glass of champers

PS – I’m tired of all the gloom and doom in the world right now and having exorcised, over the last year, a few ghosts that had been hanging around for far too long, I’ll be posting alternative perspectives (if only, on occasion ;-)) via the weekly photo challenge.