US Airways Float Plane Experiment
You probably heard about the plane that tried to land next to our old place in Battery Park. Quite the headlines it has made here. I went by on Sunday to check out the soggy remains, and found they had managed to get the fuselage hoisted on a barge and were taking their time off-loading any fuel before moving it.
I found myself with plenty of other rubber-neckers to keep me company, including the professional gawkers. I'm not sure what would have made the images so precious to justify the media hanging around for two days, but I guess that's the job.
Trip to the Met
We so rarely get out and trace the tourist culture route in our current city, and that is a mistake as egregious as failing to visit the Musee d'Orsay while we lived in Paris (oops). We do from time to time make the effort to correct our failing, and we took advantage of this holiday to visit the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Janet is a fan of photography so we focused on some special exhibitions of that art. Here she is viewing some pre-war New York street life captured by
Rudy Burckhardt.
Christmas in Ontario
Janet and I spent Christmas with my family back in Ontario. All the usual family traditions prevailed, thanks to our spouses patient indulgence. Our return flight was canceled, so we spent an unplanned couple of days poking around old haunts in Toronto.
I found myself with plenty of other rubber-neckers to keep me company, including the professional gawkers. I'm not sure what would have made the images so precious to justify the media hanging around for two days, but I guess that's the job.
