Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

It was late that dreary afternoon when I finally got home. I walked into my  sheltered entrance and something caught my eye!  It was a dark, bluish, ballish sort of thing. As I crept closer to see what it possibly could be, it began to move!  I jumped back, and when it had settled down, it revealed a beak and what looked like tail feathers!  But what was it doing in my entrance way?  There are many warmer doorways--just ask a homeless person.  Then it dawned on me; the answer was clear.  My entrance way was color coordinated. Pigeon Disturbed in a Doorway

Almost tread-free New York City

It was an odd sort of feeling in the air that day, A crackle and a nip and so-you-say, Then all of a sudden there appeared at my right, A prison-like building, and try as I might,  I could not recall seeing that building before, With its fires and its bars and the black double door. The lights began to flicker on and off—it was a code! I was certain it was beckoning to me, so I slowed-- It was then I heard the creaking and I saw the eye-like brass-- The double door cracked open and revealed a rasping mass— It began to slink and slither out the bottom of the crack; I was pinned to the sidewalk, afraid to turn my back! I covered my eyes, and when I opened them the mass Had disappeared completely and the brass was just brass! The door was closing quickly, but something seemed screwy-- A form was on the landing that was furry, black and mewy. Well I guess you know by now it was a messy little cat, It turned around to look at me and then it just sat! Nevertheless, the other day I went b

Incredible Winter Tree on 3rd Avenue Incredible Fall Tree on 3rd Avenue

Deep purple-red house buried in orange-red leaves, with a mailbox

I love this beach-cream colored building with softened shadows, fronted by a classic Upper East Side street lampost.  What a beautiful day.