WHEN I LEFT NEW YORK…

…I admit to feeling a little sad. But mostly, my memories of the Big Apple will be of the lovely people I met.

Here’s one of them. No, he doesn’t really have a Cissus  vine growing out of his head!

Lunch in Greenwich Village, with UB

“Three Petes”  A fine name for these fine players. Yes, all called Peter!

New Yorkers, if you’d like to listen to some good music, head over to   http://www.menupages.com/restaurants/greenwich-village-bistro/ on Wednesdays, at lunchtime.

Very early in my stay, I met a couple of other bloggers in East Village. Melanie and Victoria

MandV

Melanie loves Bart

Some of you might recall that I have a print of Victoria’s iconic water towers. Well, now I have one of the beautiful Chrysler Building! I had a mat cut the other day, thinking I had enough foamcore to back it. Wrong! But I’ll get a new piece today and will post a photo once it’s on the wall.

update: here it is! Not yet on the wall, but isn’t it beautiful?

The Chrysler Building

It has a Rackham-ish look, don’t you think?But if you’d like to see more (buy some?) do check out Victoria’s blog and Etsy shop.(And, no, she didn’t ask me for a plug.)

Here’s a shot of the Gipsy Fortune Teller in her dark tent

Victoria in her office, the day I met her for lunch.

And the First of the Melanies, the stalwort who stayed in contact with The Man, via email, when no one seemed to know where in the snowstorm I was, who hung around JFK airport til damn’ near daylight, waiting for me, the Melanie whom I first came to know in a sketchbook exchange, the Melanie who is not keen to have her photo taken…

But she does have a highly photogenic cat!

Beau-in-the-snow-in-The-Bronx

I  still have quite a few photos to process, but it might take a while. Deadlines have a nasty habit of sneaking up on a person!