a weblog of whereabouts & interests, since 2010
I tried one more time to get into the 9/11 Memorial, but the only slots available were late Saturday afternoon, and I didn’t make it back there to go inside. (At the base of the tower a group of 9/11 conspiracy theory believers were making their case. Man! Give it up). Late morning in Manhattan there were gusty winds, with showers in the afternoon. I learned on the news two tornadoes touched down at the edge of New York City! — but no serious injuries were reported.
Our training is complete, three-hour exam and all (three essay type questions, and what a shock to write an exam in long-hand pen on paper!). Here are some pictures from my Friday night walk-about.
The New York Public Library is just over a century old and with 53 million items in inventory its size is second only to the Library of Congress. One wonders how many of the books are available on-line .. it must be just a matter of time?
It was a long day at the office and we went out for dinner, so I did not have too much time for gallivanting around New York City and gawking at the buildings and the people !
It’s been a long day since I got up at 4.00 am Seattle time to make my 7.00 am flight. We left Seattle a little late, and there was light rain in New York City when I arrived, but everything went according to plan. I had dinner with a colleague and then we went for a short walk to Times Square. We also went down to the World Trade Center site. The 9/11 Memorial had already closed, though.
I leave very early Tue morning to go to New York City to attend a training course set up by my firm (yes, the old dog can still learn a few new tricks). I will arrive at Newark Liberty airport, and I need to get right into Manhattan. I will take several trains to get there : Newark Airtrain shuttle to the Newark Airport station, the New Jersey Transit to Penn Station in Manhattan, and then the New York subway train to get me to two blocks of the hotel.
It was just too perfect a day not to go outside for a walk, and so I did. I walked down from my house to the Japanese Garden, adjacent to a much larger park called the Washington Park Arboretum. It’s no more than a mile or so. The pictures are all from inside the Japanese Garden.
I always look for the posters for Seattle’s annual music and performing arts festival called ‘Bumbershoot*’. This one was one a newspaper box on the street.
*Bumbershoot means umbrella! Bumber- (alteration of umbr- in umbrella) + -shoot (alteration of -chute in parachute). First Known Use: circa 1896. [source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumbershoot].
.. it is simply the second full moon in a calendar month, and they come by every two or three years. So this Friday most of the world had a blue moon, but not everyone. For earthlings that live in the far eastern parts of the globe such as New Zealand, the full moon came on Sept 1. (Japan’s blue moon came in at 10.58pm on Friday night, so with an hour to spare).
