very simple

In the Berkshires this weekend for Passover, and thought that this shot of my dad was an example of pretty much the quintessential Berkshires life. Coffee, paper, dog, big leather chair. And flannel. Always flannel.

Plus, a bonus shot of Ollie. As cute as ever.

I was so struck by the sky tonight that I had to stop and take a picture. And then blog about it on the bus because I didn’t want to wait til I got home.

Taken at 125th and Lenox.

The knife man is one of those ‘only in New York’ (or perhaps even ‘only on the upper west side’) things that my friends who grew up in the city talk about. This guy drives around the neighborhood, waiting for people to bring downstairs knives, scissors, or anything else with a blade that needs sharpening, and then he sharpens them in his ever-more-antiquated truck. A service that only works in a community stacked with close neighbors who don’t drive.

In November, I went over to London to visit my brother (who is attending the London School of Economics), and my trip was documented by my posting a handful of photos while I was over there. And then the rest of my photos have been sitting on my computer for the last 4 months waiting for me to sit down for an hour and given them a good pass-through. I took hundreds, but here are the 40 or so that I thought were worth posting. Full images and descriptions when you click on the thumbnail.

Sometimes you really have to make sure to look up when you’re wandering around the city. The Chrysler building is my favorite piece of architecture in NYC, and tonight I took a different exit out of GCT and saw this.