What a Month!

There is no way I can post all the images I would like to share about the last two weeks of May, but I've chosen representative ones.  This all happened on our 12-day trip to New York--Brooklyn, to be exact--to visit our oldest son and his fiancee. It was definitely an experience to remember.

The biggest event of all was the surprise wedding of our son at St. Ann's Warehouse, beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.  We thought we were going to a play! Minutes after this photo, high wind and heavy rain descended on the small wedding party.  

 My favorite bridge

Our two sons at the reception in Queens 

Our three visits to Brooklyn always included viewing the Brooklyn Collective...amazing street art

 Our son lived in the Bushwick neighborhood for 10 years; we stayed in an Airbnb in Bushwick

Entrance to our Airbnb in Bushwick 

 Little Skips -- morning coffee and cookie every day

 Our son, who is chef at a restaurant in the Lower East Side, took us on a quick-paced tour of that amazing location where immigration shaped the area..and New York City.  This is Chinatown. 

 Little Italy borders Chinatown. I had my first cannoli here!

Our new daughter-in-law works as a fit model in Farmington, Long Island; after her work, we drove east through the Hamptons to Montauk, the easternmost point of Long Island on the Atlantic Ocean. 

Another afternoon trip was to Coney Island, an hour-long trip by train. We had a hot dog at Nathan's and deep dish pizza later.  

The boardwalk on Coney Island is wide and clean. 

One of my favorite locations is the Brooklyn side of the East River, looking into Manhattan (World Trade Center #1 aka Freedom Tower is the tallest building.) The newlyweds were our drivers. 

Bushwick, Brooklyn Street Art -- Part I

On our recent trip to New York to visit our oldest son, I was able to spend a couple of hours wandering an area of his Bushwick (Brooklyn) neighborhood, where the street art is amazing!  Much of the art has been created by a group of artists known as the Bushwick Collective.  (The first two images are actually located in DUMBO instead of Bushwick.)

                       

                       

                      

                     

                     

                       

                    

                     

       

         

          

A Contrast in Fences in Brooklyn

My husband and I traveled from Oregon to New York to spend several days with our oldest son.  He's a chef in a Greenpoint,  Brooklyn restaurant, and he lives in another Brooklyn neighborhood.  Bushwick is a low-income neighborhood and it boggles my mind that dumpy apartments cost $1200 and more per month.  For today's Friday's Fences, I've chosen two images of contrasting fences in the Bushwick neighborhood.   One surrounds a parking lot; one protects pleasant apartments/condos several blocks away.