Schmapped Again

Another of my pictures was chosen for the Schmap online guide. You can see it here. It's in the entry for The Cloisters. It's still silly, but it still makes me very happy.

Fishes!

For years I have been talking about getting an aquarium so I can have goldfish. We had several growing up and I always enjoyed watching them swim around and be fishy. Our apartment in Bowling Green is the first that has had enough room, so I promised myself that I could finally have one. On Sunday afternoon Clay and I went to the store an picked out four fish to go in our new aquarium. Fish move a lot so they are very hard to photograph!

Donna

Rose

Jack

Martha
It took several tries to get a clear shot of Martha, but her's came out the best.

Oh No!

Yes, George and Desie have already found them and pretty much accepted that they can't get the fish through glass. They still enjoy looking though.

Unpacking

We've been in Bowling Green for one week today. We've made a large dent in the enormous piles of boxes, but the first order of business was to unpack and organize our books. 16 boxes of books came with us from New York and 5 came out of storage. The only possible way to make sense of them was to unpack and stack them by subject.

Piles and piles of books

There were many that I had not seen in a long time.

This is a portion of the "Sara's School Stuff" pile.

So many books!

Yes, I was an English major.

Knoxville Zoo

We went to the Knoxville Zoo for Amy's birthday.

Prairie Dog

We spent a long time watching the meerkats, which are Amy's favorite.

Meerkats are wacky.

Red Panda
I think the spots from the fence look kind of cool.

Dragonfly

Dragonfly in Cades Cove

Goodbye New York

This will probably be the last New York picture for a while. Hopefully Bowling Green will provide some good picture taking opportunities.

New York Public Library

Three days before we moved I finally got down to NYPL with my camera.

The Rose Reading Room

Museum of Natural History

The Whale... check!

MoMA

We finally made it to MoMA thanks to Sheila, who let us use her membership pass, and Katie, who said "I want to go to MoMA."

I always feel a little weird about photographing art in museums, but I made a few exceptions because they were awesome.

White Light by Jackson Pollock

Grandcamp, Evening by Georges-Pierre Seurat

This was the first time I'd seen a Seurat in person, they were stunning.

Port-en-Bessin, Entrance to the Harbor by Georges-Pierre Seurat

Both paintings even have a painted border

I don't know this woman, but she was nice enough to stay still while I took pictures of her.

The Cloisters

Sylvie and I took advantage of our unemployment last Thursday and spent an afternoon at The Cloisters. It was a gorgeous day and the museum is awesome. Don't let the distance from midtown keep you away, it's worth the travel time.

Some of the columns are authentic and some of them are not. They do an excellent job of seamlessly filling in the missing pieces.

It's very cool to be walking through a room full of statues and paintings, turn a corner and be in a recreated chapel like this one.

This courtyard is surrounded by the tables for the museum's cafe.

The fountain was very popular with the birds. I managed to catch this one drinking.

The herbs are divided into sections, this is in the "Magical Plants" section. We were able to restrain ourselves and did not pull any up to see the roots.

Coney Island

On Mom's last day we made the trek out to Coney Island. There wasn't much going on since it was a week day and there isn't much there to begin with, but there were many photos to be taken.

The Boardwalk

Although there were not many people there, the Cyclone was running. It was very, very shaky, but a lot of fun and much faster than I'd expected.

I'm not sure how anyone could do anything besides hang on and try not to get bounced out of the seat.

A fake palm tree on the beach

We were not able to figure out what it was for.

Astroland was not open so we couldn't ride the Wonder Wheel, which was disappointing.

We had the traditional lunch at Nathan's and Mom had the classic hot dog.