Out and About with Christie

My great friend and writer extraordinaire, Christie, is in town this week, and we've had an awesome time! Here's what we've seen so far—on a walk from my house in Park Slope all the way to Chinatown. And beyond.

My stairway on the way outside. Nice color, yes?


Annie's garden on Union Street:


Something on the wall:


City sunflowers:


Morning glory (near the Gowanus Canal):



A huge-ass ginkgo tree. A tidbit about these from a great Talk of the Town: 'Each fall, the mature female—as dioecious gymnosperms, ginkgos come in genders—produces ovules that, once fertilized, develop into bunches of seeds, each consisting of an inner kernel encased in a soft, fuzzy skin. The seeds look like green cherries and contain butyric acid, the smell of which has been variously described as “rancid butter,” “sour milk,” “sh*tberries,” and “dog crap.”' They are beautiful, though!


Church on Smith Street:


Cables on the Brooklyn Bridge:


Christie on the Brooklyn Bridge, with the Manhattan Bridge behind:


We discovered a street for ourselves:


Dr. Toothy:


Chinatown:


Long beans in Chinatown:


Fall is still lingering in Central Park!


Outside the American Museum of Natural History:


[insert photo of Rick Moody here—we went to a reading at Brooklyn College.]
[insert photo of a Franny's pizza pie here. Some say it's the best in NYC!]
[insert photo of Julie here. She met us at the museum and spent the rest of the evening with us—three Colorado girls here in the big city, alternately wowed, thrilled, and overwhelmed.]