August 2020

August, where did you go? What a fast month!

AUGUST 1: Started the month off by attending my cousin Scotty’s wedding in San Diego.

AUGUST 7: Not sure what I was walking to in my neighborhood that morning, but I took pictures!

AUGUST 9: First in person church since March! We followed the rules! Was a good chance to check on what’s goin on in the Village.

AUGUST 11: Practiced using the timer on my M and then was the Sheriff of Dad’s birthday party. What a turn out we had!

AUGUST 13: I’m sparing you a lot of food photos, but I feel it’s worth posting that I made these dumplings. Filled and pinched them myself!

AUGUST 15: My local library has not reopened, BUT one in the Bronx has, so that’s where I hike to now to pick up my books. Here’s one of my hikes!

AUGUST 22: A visitor! I wonder if we used to know each other. Also, I’ve been working on burgers.

AUGUST 23: I had gotten a great deal on a 90mm lens from this guy:

And I took it with me to church to try out after. And then after those few pictures I’ve added all sorts of 90mm test shots from around the house.

28mm

90mm

My first Trader Joe’s lilies in months and months

AUGUST 26: Took a big important trip to the Bronx Zoo. It’s getting it’s own post. BUT on my way home I walked through the Little Italy of the Bronx for the first time on my way to my Bronx library to do a drop off/pick up.

What I Wrote Today

If you came here looking for it, this is the link.

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.

Mr. Aime Leon Dore

Prince Street Pizza without a line

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.