Eisenhower Park redux
So I went to visit some old friends last week,
It rained for a few minutes while I was at the lake. But otherwise it was a lovely walk.
It’s all coming back to me now
So you should know that I am not a “shopper”. I live in shopping mall heaven — I’m ten minutes from the Broadway Mall, 15 from Roosevelt Field and 25 from Whitman Shoppes — but I seldom go to the mall. I prefer to shop on line. And when I do venture into a store, I usually know what I want and buy it as quickly as possible. I’m not one to browse through stores just to see what’s for sale. There’s a local chain, Baked By Melissa , that specializes in mini cupcakes. They’re primarily in Manhattan. A few years ago Becca introduced me to their product - delicate little cakes, exquisitely decorated, very tasty. I walk past their shop on 7th Avenue whenever we go to the theater. Well, last week I remembered that they used to have a second shop on 7th, right next to the original shop, but selling gluten-free versions of all their cupcakes. The gluten-free shop closed, but the company continues to make a gluten-free version of their product. So I thought that gluten-free cupcakes wou
All would be my friends, too - except maybe the Canada geese. If only they could be toilet trained.
ReplyDeleteAren't the messy? They like the freshly mowed grass at the park (or the former park, it's being renovated right now) and their poops are terrible! Huge and everywhere and dogs like them!
DeleteAre those cormorants? I've never seen them just hanging around a park. The only time I've seen them was on the northern CA coast, flying in and out of sea caves.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you got that close to the goose. The turtles look happy.
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