Snow, you remember what that is? Not having seen much of that this year, even I have forgotten. My kids spring break had potential school openings to make up for the snow days that never ever happened. The long and short of it is we didn't make any spring break plans. Having a few beautiful days on hand, we drove north to NYC. After a day with the stars and the dinosaurs and a walk through central park which led to a thoroughly uncomfortable night for my son (Two words: Tree Pollen), we sought out a Park Without Too Many Trees. Oxymoron but we found one! The Highline Park, built on the freight line on Manhattans West Side. A lovely hardscape turned into a beautiful softscape, lovingly maintained by volunteers. Enjoy the images.
Viewing Highline from the street and viewing the street from Highline.
In NY, people dont talk about their kids but they do talk about their storage needs and their creative ruts.
Walking the Highline offers vantage of beautiful modern architecture along with NY classics
The walk even has a water feature you can splash into and continuous improvement was evident everywhere.
You might even find someone waving at you from one of the apartments, seek out your car in the racks, or you are high enough above to look in to a church through the stained glass window.
In the meatpacking district, the sausage company sign fell right below the NY sanitation departments. hmmmmm, not saying anything. Did you see the gateway to heaven? Over Pier 54? It leads to NJ.
The magnolias were just starting to open up, the park had the most unusually peachy pink redbud tree, even the bird house sculpture of by Sarah Sze was in sync.
A fashion photo shoot
And last but not the least, two of my favorite images.
The first one is of Finch's River that flows both ways. Glass panels representing a pixels of 700 images of Hudson taken over 11 hours and 40 minutes. Nope, no dead bodies here, a beautiful play of light on water.
This image is courtesy of my 10 year old. He captured the walkway, which almost seems like horizontal picket fences
