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| Clouds and Sun over Greenwich Village Spring 07 |
With a wide-open view from my apartment windows sun and clouds become welcome for the patterns they create. |
| Clouds and Sun over Greenwich Village Spring 07 |
|  | “You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.”
— Martin Luther quotes (1483-1546) | | | Clouds and Sun over Greenwich Village Summer 07 |
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| Clouds and Sun over Greenwich Village Summer 07 |
| | “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
— Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941) |
“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.”
— Lord Byron quotes (1788-1824) | | | Clouds and Sun over Greenwich Village Summer 07 |
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| Water Tower, 40 Fifth Ave., July 2007 |
| | An elegant apartment house rises at 40 Fifth Avenue. This Greenwich Village section of lower Fifth Avenue is known as the Gold Coast. This is a prewar building, and that war is always understood to be the Second World War. The water tank, seen from our south-facing window, is encased in an elaborate brick and limestone tower, decorated with peaked pediments, urns and topped by a domed lantern. |
Officially known as the First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York, this Neo-Gothic building stands on lower Fifth Avenue’s Gold Coast, between West 12th and West 11th Streets. The building was dedicated in 1846; but the congregation dates from 1716 and began life where New York City did, further south on Wall Street. | | | First Presbyterian Church Tower, July 2007 |
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| | One of the most delightful sights seen from our windows is the clock tower of the 1876 Jefferson Market Library.
We do not even need a clock in the house; we can easily glance out the window for the time. And I do!
Built in the Victorian Gothic style, originally the Jefferson Market Library was the Jefferson Market Courthouse. In the mid-1970s it became a branch of the New York Public Library. |
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jumpingnorman Wed Oct 21, 2009 02:19 UTC
Hi Philip! Hope everything okay there - just here working tonight on-call, but trying to add more new jumping galleries....Norman :) | thinking Wed Jul 1, 2009 21:48 UTC
Bonjour et Aloha! How are things in Manhattan? All my friends moved, so now I don't know. | Homanded Wed Apr 8, 2009 22:39 UTC
Von, my brother lives right across the street from the Biltmore and we often lunch there. It is indeed nice! Glad you enjoyed your stay in South Florida. Homer | Rhondaj Tue Feb 24, 2009 11:49 UTC
Hello from South Jersey...! Very nice home page. Rome is a fantastic city! I have enjoyed all my European trips. The economy has been keeping us stateside lately. Wish I had my own wings so I could fly over myself...haha! |
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