It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Halloween

The weather in New York City has made all kinds of no sense lately.  A few very short weeks ago, I was still wearing sundresses, sandals, sunglasses and straw hats.  Now, I'm bundled up like that kid from "A Christmas Story," trundling down the street like a kind of marshmallow Michelin-man.  

It's cold.  And, it snowed!  The day before, I was an unbeliever.  I thought that the weathermen had gone bonkers.  It was two days before Halloween there was no way in hell that it was going to snow.  That just doesn't happen here.  I've lived in this region of the world all of my life, and I had never seen that occur.  

There was just no way.

I mean, well, except for that way.  The one in that photograph.  That is my subway station, well, not mine per se, but the subway station at which I generally board a train when I'm coming from my home.  This photograph was taken on October 29, 2011.  Yeah.  Ridiculous.

Like, seriously, what the hell?  This weather has me feeling all Christmassy.  Christmas-like?  In the Christmas spirit.

Christmas in October-

Deck the halls with snowy train tracks

Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la

MTA gives you no real facts

Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la

Sidewalks with deceptive puddles

Fa-la-la La-la-la La La La

Trains are down, take the free shuttles

Fa-la-la-la-la La-la-la-la

Brrrrrrr.  Really?

Look at that traffic, and how it's affected by the snow/sleet/wintry mix/ hellish unfairness that's falling from the sky!  You can see how deep of a puddle the white van is in-  check out the splash it's creating!  On a completely unrelated note, I love that lady's umbrella.

The photograph directly above is my favourite one of this snowy bunch.  I already shared it on Facebook.  I love the lion statue- there are two of them, one on each side of the gate, guarding the big house on the corner.  So lovely.  I want to live in a fortress guarded by lion statues.  Not just a beautiful Brooklyn home, specifically a fortress.  But, I'll settle for a house.  If I have to.

PS.  Sorry for the lack of posts last week.  I only put stuff up twice, and neither post contained my photographs.  I was busy.  This week I'll be better about it :)

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Prospect Park South

I've mentioned over the past couple of posts that I am moving, but thankfully, I'm staying in the same neighborhood.  Prospect Park South.  Obviously, I'm not going to broadcast anything more specific than that over the intertubes, but the area is gorgeous.  I love it.  The historical feel is lovely, there are so many fun places to go, and it feels slightly more suburban, and far away than many places in the city.  I love living a half an hour train ride away from the craziness of midtown Manhattan.

Here's why.

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

These Kids Are so much Hipper than Me

Please, may I introduce two members of that counterculture that isn't organized enough to be, nor wants to be a counterculture- the hipsters.  These two are particularly good.  They border on scenester just because what they are doing is so poppy/ Japanese.  The backpack, let me start with the backpack.  Woah.  That person with it on is a guy, and he looked to be about twenty years old, and he's rockin the miniature, cutesy stuffed animal backpack.  That's.  Awesome.  I wish I had the courage to pull off something that eccentric, but I don't.  Maybe that's for the better, but he just looks so fun!  The girl looks a little bit like  a Lady Gaga wannabe.  These two were just hanging out one cloudy August day at South Street Seaport.  I didn't talk to them.  They walked around the area in circles- I don't know if they were intentionally trying to get people to notice that they were much cooler than everyone else.  It was working.  Check out the girl in the yellow in the top photograph.

Now they just have to whip out their American Spirits and a PBR and they are good to go.

I am nowhere near that cool.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Lion

Lion Statue Outside of St. Mark's Church

East Village, New York City, USA

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