niege/snow/nieve

There is love for the snow everywhere in NY. From indoors:



and outside:


... or even in the hood:

Je t'aime mon lapin.

Sojourn in the Upper East Side

John (the Scotsman) has been a savior from the anxious life in Brooklyn. With our apartment now full of other people, privacy and sanity have been compromised. Thus, why John was kind enough to leave me the keys to his apartment while he was on business in Spain. What this means is once again acquiring the time and space to be me. I can breathe. I can speak liberally, with a lack of censorship. It also doesn't hurt to have switched from our comfy couch to an even comfier queen-sized bed. I've been dreaming since I've been sleeping in a bed. A lot of the time about you. :)


This is a dream. Total isolation. Clean home (with help from Borjena, John's housekeeper aka Boom-bah).
All inspiration for my bourgeois ambitions.


With temporary residence in the Upper East Side, life has been more pleasant. Being close to the metro-north and to work are other pluses. His apartment is also in proximity of the Museum Mile. Though yesterday was in bulk about running errands in Brooklyn, I did manage to find the time to stop in to the Met:


But the ones that excited me the most were the new galleries, a photo-collage exhibit, a modern photography gallery and more importantly the gallery exhibiting a collection of the French art deco movement of the late 1910's well into the 20's.


There was a diverse set of mediums utilized, most notably a multimedia (gold sheets, silver plates, gesso and paint) mural constructed for a luxury liner's grand hall. Sculpture, drawings, jewelry, paintings... you name it it was probably deco'ed out, lol.

It's been snowing a lot. I think of you every time it does.

Longest. Day. Ever.

So I thought today would be a comfortable, pleasant day. I had planned on going to KirstenBosch Gardens with my friend from the NY, which seemed reasonable enough. At a fork in the trail after the more formal gardens were some options like "children's garden" and "useful plants garden," and also, "skeleton gorge."

Well, where did you think we would go? What we did find out was that skeleton gorge is really far away, and that after a while ( a really, really long time) we ended up AT THE TOP of Table Mountain! In shorts and sneakers. Up rickety ladders and chains.

What also seemed like a good idea was to follow the cable lift off in the distance and ride it back down. This also proved futile. It was not running.
So we had to hike back down, and spent a total of 6 hours (totally unprepared without even water or snack bars ) wandering Table Mountain in the sun.

I won't lie, it was actually pretty awesome. Photos tomorrow.

It's booked

So it's now booked. May 17-31st I will be heading to Cape Town. There will be pictures, there will be food, there will be cuddling and all sorts of nauseating couple stuff that we're being deprived of.

:)

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