While walking around the Times Square region just after enjoying a film screening for the movie “Brighton Rock” I happened upon this lovely young lady all dressed in glitz and glitter. She was advertising something and seemed very happy about it. The tourist in me said “snap a photo Ken” and so I did and the charming lass kindly obliged. She was apparently doling out flyers for the Broadway musical “Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert” which was originally a film starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp as three drag queens misadventures. I never saw the film but did see some performances from the new musical on some of the television shows recently and think it might be fun to check out with the open minded guest. Check it out and by all means let us know how it is.
I never did get this girls name but that didn’t matter since her positive enthusiasm and zeal were enough to brighten the day and the other journey’s on my plate. There were more coming up in all honesty because NYC is just that kind of place with something interesting on every corner. Thanks Miss. I wish you well.
I had been wandering around the city the other day and it was a bountiful day for a photographer to say the least. I had only just passed the “Figurations” exhibit that was up on the Fashion District and as I got to the vicinity of Madison Square Park I caught a glimpse of something giant and white. It was obstructed by some trees and it definitely bore a closer look see so over to the park I walked.
If you wander around New York City like I am fortunate enough to do and actually pay attention to your surroundings or the things that you are passing you might very well happen upon one of the many Green Thumb garden spaces. Obviously the term “green thumb” has something to do with gardening and what this organization does is take barren and often neglected lots and turns them into things of beauty and inspiration for all to enjoy. It’s not just relegated to our city of course and is an initiative of people across the whole country but one would have to agree that seeing these every few blocks or avenues is so much more pleasurable than seeing yet another condominium being built.
OK, so perhaps the title of this blog posting is a little deceiving but it did get your attention and bring you here and that is all that matters to me. The two photos of this little jasper of a frog were snapped on a recent visit upstate to my friends place in Newburgh, NY. It was late on Saturday evening and this guy was hanging on to the door frame and just loving life it would seem.
My friends said that while they had seen many frogs up in their neck of the woods they had not yet seen any that small or in this color. I rushed for my trusty Lumix to snare a few shots of the little guy and then let him go about his evening business. I tried to not disturb him or frighten him and was out of his way in seconds.
I’m not really sure what kind of frog he is but he was about the size of a quarter. Perhaps in truth a little bigger but he was not even the size of a half dollar coin if any of you remember what those were. I loved being able to snap this since nature always reminds us of how magnificent this planet is.
With NYC getting its heat on and cooking both tourists and residents alike, I was compelled to share this photo with the readers of the PiercingKen blogsite. I happened upon this sight last week actually and am very glad to see this kind of thing being offered to the public especially on days such as this. If you cannot tell what it is, it is pretty much just a long sink with several drinking fountains on the top of it. It is connected to a fire hydrant and offers the passerby a drink of ice cold NYC water. We do have the best of that stuff by far so do partake if you see one of these. On days like this you will surely need to indulge. At the moment of this writing NYC was dealing with a 100 degrees temperature and the humidity made it a lot worse. It was one of those two or three shower days for sure.
Here’s a slightly different view of the communal sink basin. It reminded me a lot of the things I used to use in grammar school days.
