Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

This Long Needle Pine is coping as best it can with the August heat.  These large cones appear only on the sunny side of the tree, but the trade off is they must seek shade behind the thin, wispy needles.  However, it has also been suggested that these cones are shy.  At night, when all is quiet in Central Park, they brush away the needles and bathe in starlight. Long Needle Pine behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art

At first glance, all we see is a toy-looking ship filled with colored domino-like objects.  But look!  The entire ship is Color Coded.  A red and a blue crane, red below the blue waterline, red and blue domino-like objects.  What can it mean?  Nothing?  Nada?  Ninka?  Oh, dear...

The New York Grand Opera's production of Madama Butterfly, conducted by Vincent La Selva  was rained out on August 3rd.   Akemi Baba Dressing for  Madama Butterfly, 2011

These unusual persons indicated that they were part of the chorus of Madama Butterfly, to be presented today, August 3, at the Band shell in Central Park . (I thought it safest to simply agree) Time:  7pm   Admission:   F R E E !! 72nd Street in from 5th Avenue  CONDUCTED BY:  VINCENT LA SELVA!

Photo of the brilliant Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Edwin P. Su of Hospital for Special Surgery with X-ray of  two resurfaced hips.  Guess which one is 5 years old and which one has 3 months!  Dr. Edwin P. Su, Hospital for Special Surgery

I’ve fallen down a cleft in a cavern of my mind, into an injured ocean rich with silty buried treasures.  I lost my bearings in the straights of memories  between that shore where tall pines needle their way  into my wounded life to weave up the fray, and that cityscape of stoops and hot manhole covers  built to hold out against the winter steam. Snagged in the rift, my wayward toe is caught by the  monster sea: Waiting, lying, keening,  “There will always be time for love and time for making do. “ The Old Denver Post Office and Courthouse

Larry C.