July 2020: A Little More Exciting than June
July 4: Well the month certainly started off with a bang…I mean people had been setting off fireworks all night for weeks, but on the 4th they really went for it.
July 8: A big thing about July was the baby pigeons on my fire escape. They were getting bigger and bigger right before my eyes. I borrowed a telephoto lens from Ned to try to get a better look at them.
July 14
See? They look closer, right?
Momentous Occasion: I take my first subway ride in 4 months. I go downtown to make some big returns and check on the old China Town/Little Italy/Soho/Nolita/West Village situation. Really didn’t seem super different. I think I missed the part where New York looked empty and abandoned.
Back then I thought it was a big deal I hadn’t shaved for four months or had a haircut for five months but now I write this in August with a month more growth on both and think it’s all so quaint.
July 21
Bigger and bigger.
I went up Inwood Hill with Ned to see that comet. We saw it.
July 23: Another trip downtown to do a bunch of errands that didn’t really work out BUT I got out of the house and had my first Sweetgreens since the Saturday when I saw Little Women with Heather a real long time ago.
July 25: My preferred neighborhood Chinese take-out place has reopened.
June 2020: There Is Not Much To Show
Well, it certainly seems I did not do much in June. And I thought April was my most locked-down month!
JUNE 6: While the protests were occurring, there was some major scorched-earth looting along Fordham Road in the Bronx, just over the river from Inwood. Rumors ran rampant that Dyckman street was the looters’ next target, so I when I went out this night to pay my rent I found many businesses well boarded up and something of local anti-looting militia patrolling the neighborhood before staking out on Dyckman for the night. As far as I know the looters never came, BUT I very strongly believe I heard gunfire that night (and not just the usual late-night independent fireworks show).
JUNE 8: Surprise “visit” to Festus’s with Garrett, too.
JUNE 13: I could hear a band playing so I went out to find out what was going on. Turns out it was a concert at the fruit stand! The fruit stand man gave me a banana which (mistakenly) I tried to eat with my mask on. Also discovered the church on the corner is open now. And found some saddles for sale.
Really these posts would be longer if I was including the food I’ve been cooking or the books I’ve been reading, but I’ve kept that content Instagram-exclusive.