The New York Botanical Garden, Spring 2016
“To cultivate a garden is to walk with God, to go hand in hand with nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, […]
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New York’s Easter Parade 2016
In your Easter bonnet with all the frills upon it You’ll be the grandest fella in the Easter Parade I’ll be all in clover and when they look us over […]
The Temple of Dendur: Colorful Again
“I am dying, Egypt, dying.” —Marc Antony (83 B.C.–30 B.C.) from 1606’s Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) By contrast, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) something is […]
Bryant Blooms
“To make these mandala images, I use a scanner like a large-format camera. I lay flowers directly onto it, allowing pollen and other flower stuff to fall onto the glass […]
Knitting Christmas Sweetness
“And I had but one penny in the world. Thou should’st have it to buy gingerbread.” — from Love’s Labors Lost 1597 by William Shakespeare (1564–1616) The folks at the […]
NYC’s Christmas Windows, 2015
“Window dressing is at first glance so gorgeously useless that it resists all comparison with other derided professions.” —Simon Doonan (1952– , Creative Ambassador for, and former window dresser at, […]
A Train Ride through Miniature New York
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” —Oscar Wilde (1856–1900) Sensational describes the Holiday Train Show at the New York […]
Parade Balloons: Earth-Bound
“When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, ‘That’s what I […]
From the Closet of a Countess
“The thoughts of a ball awaken the joyful parts of our imagination. The ball holds out the prospect of something mysterious that may perhaps change your life.” —Jacqueline, Countess de […]
Good Advice at Your Feet
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” —Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) What with our many skyscrapers in the Big Apple most visitors and some […]
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