I started my day with a nice visit to Teardrop Park. I believe it is part of Battery Park (not positive), which is along the Hudson in the Financial District. I read that Teardrop is a less populated park because it is somewhat hidden between a bunch of high-rise apartment building. It was a lovely park!
A bunch of jaggedy rocks
This is my New York version of Dad's Colorado rock close up!
I love that you can be in a nature setting and see big buildings at the same time!
Cool archway. Look at the little white sploch in the top left part of the rock. It's a sock!
More pretty rocks
I was determined to overcome my aversion to slides and go down this one, but the little kids were pouring buckets of water down it.
I found this nice little geyser overlooking the water play area, spread my blanket on the rocks, and stuck my feet in the water!
A cute little bird on the rock
Swooshing water from my little geyser!
This evening I went to a movie screening on a rooftop! There's a film group called Rooftop Films that shows new, offbeat, and indie films in outdoor locations around the city. Tonight's film was a sneak preview of a new film called Aardvark. It was the director's first film and it was pretty obvious. The story had potential, but it was not fully developed and was kind of incoherent. The sound editing was terrible. The music was often too loud and covered up dialogue and the room tone cut out out a lot. Yikes! However, I talked to the woman sitting next to me and found out she is about to start shooting a film and one of her friends is making a documentary about the filmmaking process and needs help. I gave her my card and she's going to get in touch! I'm networking!
When I got on my daily R train at the 45th st station I was the only one on the car! No one joined me for about 3 stops, so I had time to take pictures!
The car. I like the orange ones best.
This duct of some sort has a wink on it! It was next to me in line for tickets.
The movie was on the roof of this school.
Bikes tied to the fence in line. I'm pretty sure they belong to the people I ended up sitting next to/exchanging contact info with!
People waiting in line
The screen about an hour before the film. Doors opened at 8, the musicians who did the soundtrack for the film played soon after, and the film started around 9.
View from the windows of the roof. It was open on top, but there were walls and chain-link covered windows.
The walls were completely covered with these awesome murals! I wish I could have photographed all of it!
This is my new desktop picture. It makes me think of Mom and Kim, I think because it reminds me of their pictures from San Francisco a few years ago.
The view of the city from the small space between the chain-link and the wall.
Pretty sunset!
More mural/window
People's clothes hanging out the windows! I love it!
The view after the movie. Lovely!
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