FOr 4 hours this afternoon I dined, laughed, photoed and
walked (and walked and walked
and walked) around Manhattan with another list member who
was here mainly to visit
his parent's and sister who live in Queens. - I speak of
Cesar, and I come to praise him. :)
I brought him to my favorite little Polish restaurant on 1st
ave, a stones throw from
my apartment where he sampled pirogies, bigos and kilbasa...
we walked to the
west village and then down to Canal Street. Until today,
the part of Manhattan
I live in was cordoned off from the rest of the island. I
live on 7th st, everything
below 14th street (all the way to the tip of Manhattan) from
river to river was
off limits to anyone who wasn't involved in essential goods
and services, rescue work or who lived here. But today the
border was moved about a mile downtown to Canal
street, and the streets in my 'hood were alive again,
although cars and busses were
scarce. It seemed almost normal, except that everyone
seemed to be particularly friendly and sweet to each other.
I took him to the K-Mart at Astor Place to show him the view
from the windows there.
Cesar lives in FLorida but, in fact, grew up in the Bronx
and so it wasn't quite
like being a tour guide to someone who didn't know my island
at all, but he certainly
didn't expect to get taken to a K-mart for a view!
At Canal street we heard news folk speak of Bush being on
the West side hwy -
we didnt wait. Cesar needed to be midtown to meet his
sister at 4..
I was toting my trusty KX with a 50mm SMC 1.4 and my 100 smc
f4 macro. Cesar
had his LX and the - MS-50 (?) that one you have all be
jawing about... and,
gasp, the "77"! I handed over my 100 mac for him to try and
mounted the 77
on my KX. Wow! what a lens. you can actually see what you
are doing with it,
and what a nice focal length. wahwahwah - I want one - where
is a sugar daddy when you need one?? But I digress....
We both shot a few frames and pretty soon I'll post a couple
so you can see what
he looks like.
In this very sad world, it was nice to get out and just
breathe again (thanks
to the heavy rains of last night, the dust and ash settled -
although I fear
it made things even more difficult for relief workers.)
On Prince street I took him to a famous little bakery called
Vesuvio where
we chatted with the owner and praised Guilliani - not
something I every expected to do, but our Mayor has been
quite impressive in dealing with all this stuff, I'll have
to admit. Cesar had treated me to lunch, so I bought pepper
biscuits at the bakery
to introduce him to another taste treat.
We walked back up to my neighborhood on the Bowery which
becomes 3rd ave and
he continued walking to midtown.
I shared a story from a friend with him that is one of the
happy ones of the week.
A friend told me of a friend of hers who worked in Tower 1 -
the usual calls were
made to find out if anyone had heard from him - he was found
after a few hours and
was safe - he had never gone to work on Tuesday as he had
been fired the previous
Friday!
night all,
annsan
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