This morning I was doing some pre-New Year cleaning and came upon some notes I took while watching the local TV network news reports on September 11, 2001 and the during the next day. I thought this would be as a good a place as any to share these strange memory-fragments. The local reporters were clearly in over their heads--who wasn't?--and here are some of the things they said on air: "When you think of all the bad things that have happened in our lives, this is the worst." "...reporting live...for the time being." In reference to bomb threats @ the empire state...

Rurality

author: GGP : Delaware County, NY

The road to the bog. One of many abandoned farms. A building I love. An active horse farm...for active horses. Landscape Busters' horrific powerlines. Sleepy chairs in snow. Icicles!

Hunters Welcome

author: GGP : Stamford, NY

Wintertime arrives in the Catskills. These signs appear everywhere--in front of restaurants, shops, supermarkets, etc. By the way, that color is known as "hunter orange". Be sure to wear it when walking in woods, and put something bright on your dogs, too.

Cattail Meditations

author: GGP : Bloomville, NY

A few weeks ago, the combination of wind, shortening days, and cooling weather began to take their toll on the local cattails. Their bodies are so evocative to me; even more so as the tassels come unloosed and the cattails "let their hair down." These unique and pleasing textures inspired me to do some tweaking in photoshop for a trippier botanical effect. When I was a kid, I thought botany was about as boring as you could get. The older I get--the more tree-like, I suppose--the more I appreciate the astonishing quality of the plant world: the biology, the reproductive creativity, the...

168th Street

author: GGP : New York, NY

A business commitment forced me out into the cold yesterday and up from Brooklyn to Northern Manhattan. Columbia Presbyterian is there; a complex of historic old buildings and new ones. Dr. Bruce must be a pretty special dude. How's this for a nice bit of corporate culture? (That's an oxymoron, by the way.) The subway station is pretty cool as well. I get hot for these old lamps.

Halogen Cat

author: GGP : Brooklyn, NY

Lascoff Prescriptions

author: GGP : New York, NY

OK, after Sine's post, Prescriptions, it seems appropriate to post some Rx's of my own. This is from an upper east side institution, Lascoff Apothecary. It's a classic apothecary, offering many cures, tinctures, and "analyses" in its day. I love this mortar and pestle detail. The ivy says it all... Anyone read Latin? This phrase presumably attests to the proprietor's, well, propriety. The large front windows display wonderful keepsakes from the past, including many old prescriptions. And the building itself in various incarnations over the years. How's that for "meta"?

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