Looking up

I'm still going through my photos!
Today's post is about looking up and seeing plants, what look to be complete houses, patterns, designs, etc, at the tops of very tall buildings. You have to be wandering, taking your time and not rushing to be somewhere at a particular time to actually have the chance to look up and see them.

I will have to take my time now that I am home, see if I can wander around with the same relaxed attitude and see the hidden sights here too, enjoy being in the now.

I do love the water containers!

Talking about good use of space ...

The Highline is a very interesting walk you can do. It used to be an above-ground rail but has been converted into a garden space.

One of the interesting things about it was that the plantings had been designed to look like some of the self-sewn areas that had developed, it is much less controlled than other planted areas in New York (Central Park excepted, of course).

There was also an interesting juxtaposition of natural shapes and the man-made, geometric shapes.

And I couldn't resist taking this photo from the walk - another example of using all the space available.

White Christmas - perhaps

I'm sitting here, all packed to go to New York for Christmas. I am lucky enough to have a good friend living there and she has invited me over for a few weeks. I have just checked the weather forecast and it looks COLD. Perhaps there will be a payoff of a white Christmas, something that we do not get here in Melbourne.

We had a hot day here on Wednesday, about 39 degrees celsius (or should I call it centigrade?), with the last few days in the low 20s. But the HIGH forecast for Sunday (in New York) is -1 degree!! I hope the snow doesn't mean that the plane can't go to New York. One of the joys of travel, I suppose, the uncertainty.

I am hoping to go to the new medieval display at The Cloisters to see, among other things, the tapestry. I have heard that there has been a 5 year renovation going on, so it should be good to see.

I went to K Spoering's blog and she tells me that there are more tapestries to see at the MET, not that I am only going to look at tapestries, but it does give me a focus for my 'touristing'.