Pink is the Color

Walking the pandemic in NYC

Spring is just another word for pink these days.

Wow.

Delicate.

Intense.

Pink with sculpture

Pink with bench watchers.

Not-fully-blossomed pink with Cathedral. See next photo for what’s coming…

We can look forward to this full-on pink with Cathedral. (Photo from early May last year.)

Pink again.

And again.

Stay safe, New York and world. One of these days, we’ll walk again without fear.

This photo is from last spring, but these undistanced, unmasked days of yore will eventually return.

Hudson River pinks.

Hang in there, stay safe and see you back here soon!

Check out the Snow!

It’s crazy snowing this morning!

Snow in Traverse City, Michigan

I flew into Traverse City in northern Michigan last night, where I’m serving as a mentor for a Young Playwrights Festival run by the Wharton Center. You can’t really see in this quick shot out my hotel window, but these are big beautiful snowflakes pouring down.

This is what I left behind in New York City: Broadway in bloom.

Morningside in bloom.

Wow.

Well, the work the young playwrights are doing will warm us up.

Spring Evening in Riverside Park

Tonight the dog and I took an early evening stroll in Riverside Park.

The park is just about perfect right now. Many branches are still bare, letting the river show through.

Some trees on the Cherry Walk are budding,

while others are blooming.

We left the river walk,

and headed back up to the center promenade.

Like the river, the city shows easily through the trees.

I love the seasonal layers, daffodils coming up through last fall’s leaf litter

bud-fuzzy branches,

forsythia,

lovely white blossoms,

and magnolias.

In a month or so, views of the river and the city will be obscured by layers of lush green leaves.  But meanwhile, I’m loving spring.