Caffeine at the pool on a Monday morning~
Posted: May 22, 2023 Filed under: Home and Garden, submissive | Tags: apartment, BDSM, coffee, D/s, dievca, Early Bird, Hudson River, Life, Monday, Morning, NYC, Sunrise, swimming Leave a comment
Forward Crawl and Backstroke doing well. The dolphin kick was a bit of a mess. Not using the quads enough to match the top and bottom kicks – working on it.
Today dievca’s building is shutting down the elevators from 5 am to 7 am for a full fire inspection. dievca has a plan for coffee on the sundeck to watch the sunrise and an early swim. How packed are the elevators going to be at 4:45 am? Who knows – worst case scenario, dievca has coffee at home and she cancels the swim reservation.
Good Morning! have a lovely week.
Well, someone likes the weather we’ve been having!
Posted: May 10, 2023 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Color, D/s, dievca, Flowers, Hudson River, Joy, Life, NYC, photo, Spring, submissive 1 Comment
The azaleas are gorgeous this Spring. An explosion of Joy!
Photo: dievca azaleas Hudson River 05/2023
View of the Earth via NYC
Posted: April 22, 2023 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Earth Day 2023, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, Photos Leave a comment
Photos: dievca – NYC and th Hudson River 04/2023
Mysterious Mist – NYC
Posted: January 3, 2023 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Hudson River Greenway, Life, lovely, NYC, Photos, Weather, Winter Leave a comment
We do not have snow, but we do have interesting weather~
Click on the photos for more detail.
Photos: dievca Hudson River Walk NYC 12/2022
Taking a Moment
Posted: September 30, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, beauty, colors, D/s, dievca, End of Summer, Hudson River, Joy, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Sunset 1 Comment
To appreciate a Masterpiece.
Photo: dievca NYC Hudson River Sunset 09/2022
dievca always wanted an outdoor shower, she got it in NYC.
Posted: September 22, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, End of Summer, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, outdoors, photo, pleasure, shower Leave a comment
Not super private (in more ways than one), but the view is fun and the water is warm!
Photo: dievca Hudson River, NYC 09/2022
Peaceful on a Sunday morning~
Posted: August 28, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, Master, Morning, NYC, peaceful, photo, Ships, submissive, Sunday 5 Comments
The tide and ships roll in.
Master always says he would never get anything done working in my apartment –
he would be too busy watching the World roll by.
Photo: dievca – Hudson River NYC 08/2022
Smell the Roses
Posted: June 4, 2022 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: Composting, dievca, Flowers, Hudson River, Hudson River Greenway, Life, Love, NYC, photo, roses 2 CommentsAs dievca made her way to the composting area along the Hudson River there was a double blossom rosebush that gave off the most delightful of smells:
The composting guy has a passion for what he does and he explained the various plants grown by the volunteers to the Hudson Riverway Park. In return, dievca was able to share the breakdown of corn starch packing materials via composting –> Carbon Dioxide and Water…
Equals Happiness.
XO
Photo: dievca – Hudson River Greenway 06/2022
Follow the sun
Posted: May 20, 2022 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, healing, Hudson River, Life, NYC, photo, Spring, Sunset 2 Comments
Photo: dievca, Hudson River sunset 05/2015
A Glimpse of NYC in November
Posted: November 12, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: Autumn, BDSM, Chelsea, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, Morning, NYC, Photos 5 Comments
click on the photos to enlarge
The Dawn is breaking cloudy in New York.
It’s rare to see the clouds head in from the East – but they are heading towards the Hudson River.
dievca is sending you a quiet, “Good Morning”.
Autumn offers Sunsets
Posted: October 2, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, photo, submissive, Sunset Leave a comment
Not the cleanest lens on the phone – but the loveliness still shines though. XO
Photo: dievca – Hudson River Sunset 09/2021
Hudson Yard-henge
Posted: July 21, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, D/s, Dawn, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Morning, NYC, photo, submissive, walking Leave a comment
Hope in the City
Posted: May 21, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC), Poetry | Tags: BDSM, beauty, D/s, dievca, Flowers, Hudson River, Joy, Life, NYC, photo, Spring Leave a comment
From the train
it’s a city of roses
and rose keepers,
bald men in spectacles
and torn shirts.
There are miles of roses
in Elizabeth, New Jersey,
backyard arbors
shadowed by refineries
and the turnpike,
jungles of scrap,
still brown water, and poisoned marsh.
None of this matters
to the rose keepers of Elizabeth.
From the backyards of row houses
they bring forth pink roses, yellow roses
and around a house on its own
green plot, a hedge of roses, in red and white.
Surely faith and charity
are fine, but the greatest of these
is roses.
— "Hope in Elizabeth" by Kathleen Norris, for more see Little Girls in ChurchPhotos: dievca, Hudson River Park 05/2021
Smell the blossoms – or not…
Posted: April 27, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, beauty, crabapple trees, D/s, dievca, Flowers, garden, Hudson River, Joy, Love, smell, Spring, submissive Leave a comment
It’s hard to know when the blossoms burst and you cannot smell them because of your mask.
Normally, dievca can smell them while riding her bike past the Hudson River Walk.
If you make a point of stopping and take off your mask – they smell divine!
Hazards of the Concrete Jungle
Posted: February 5, 2021 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Humor, Life, NYC, photo, rat, snow, submissive, Winter 2 Comments
NYC Autumn Morning
Posted: October 25, 2020 Filed under: Musings, Poetry | Tags: Autumn, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, Morning, NYC, photo, submissive Leave a comment
Photos: dievca NYC 10/2020
Autumn, New York, 1999
And I am full of worry I wrote to a friend
Worry, she replied about what—love, money, health?
All of them, I wrote back. It’s autumn, the air is clear
and you hear death music—the rattle of leaves swirling
the midnight cat howling, a newborn baby’s 3 am
call for food or help or heart’s love
At the market, the green, red and yellow apples are piled high,
sweet perfume—once, I went apple picking in Massachusetts
a day of thralling beauty, my companions and I
had no desire to leave the valley—the plump trees,
the fierce pride of small town New England where a gift shop
exploded gingham, calico, silly stuffed toys
we stood within this shrine to cloying femininity of entwined hearts
and ribbons and bows like invading aliens, fascinated and appalled
and here too, people throng around the dahlias—
the last of the bright fat flowers. Open. Scentless.
It is going to be a very hard winter and we all know it in our bones
an almost atavistic memory with instruction—wear heavy clothes
horde food, drink water, stand against the wind
listen.
Copyright © 2010 by Patricia Spears Jones. From Painkiller (Tia Cucha Press, 2010).
Between dusk and the dawn….
Posted: August 21, 2020 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Hudson River, Hudson Yards, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Summer Leave a comment
summer heat abates
zephyrs cross the window sash
darkness settles the spirit
quietude
until the new day
Photos: dievca, NYC 08/2020
April Showers in COVID-19 NYC
Posted: April 14, 2020 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, COVID-19, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Rain, Spring, submissive Leave a comment
Seen on the way:
- One sad male young adult in cotton shorts and t-shirt soaked
- One fit female runner in matching bra and leggings with pink Beat headphones
- One millennial dog owner with a Husky mix the female runner kept admiring
- Four soaked Navy Corpsmen in shorts and masks running back to the USNS Comfort
- One dievca always prepared in a huge raincoat.
Vetements Libra Raincoat
Photos: dievca Hudson River 04/2020
Take a breath, savor the day, know you live.
Posted: April 10, 2020 Filed under: Analysis, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, COVID-19, D/s, dievca, gratitude, Hudson River, Life, Love, Nature, NYC, quote, Spring, submissive Leave a comment
Photo: dievca – Sunset on the Hudson 04/2020
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Reduction by 1/3 – something of use – Kitchen Composting
Posted: October 18, 2019 Filed under: Accessories, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Composting, D/s, dievca, Earth, Hudson River, Life, OXO Good Grips, Shopping, submissive, useful Leave a comment
Something of use – the OXO Good Grips Kitchen Compost Bin and the Hudson River Park composting stations. dievca started collecting and dropping her food scraps for compost this year and her throw-away garbage has diminished by at least 1/3. Plus the 10 minute walks to the river to drop the food waste gives her a moment to just “be”.
THE BIN
A conveniently-sized OXO Good Grips Compost Bin holds your food scraps until they can be transferred to your outdoor composter.
- The simple design makes it perfect for everyday counter-top use
- The lid flips up with one hand for easy filling and flips down tightly to lock-in odors
- The ergonomic design ensures that this compost bin is easy to carry, easy to empty and easy to clean
- Made of plastic
- Holds up to 3/4 gallon
- Measures 7-3/4″ x 7-310″ x 7-3/5″
- Weighs only 1.4 lb.
- Dishwasher safe
Click photo to buy at Bed, Bath and Beyond $19.99
THE STORY
In 2015, Hudson River Park began composting horticulture waste, including grass clippings and pruned tree material to help green the Park and support NYC’s zero waste by 2030 goal. This project was made possible by Hudson River Park Friends who procured an automated composter with the generous support of donor Chris Fiore and L Brands Inc.
On June 12, 2017 the Park expanded its composting efforts and launched our Community Compost Program in partnership with NYC’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) and Council Member Corey Johnson. Now at seven locations throughout the Park community members can drop off their food scraps from 7am-7pm daily. The Park mixes these food scraps with the Park’s horticulture waste to make healthy compost that then enriches our plant beds and trees to help the Park flourish.
In 2018, HRPK turned nearly 420,000 pounds of organic waste into compost. HRPK employees and community members were educated at workshops, volunteer events and public programming, including the Park’s first annual Pumpkin Smash, to encourage best practices in composting.
dievca believes that every little effort for recycling, upcycling and re-using will add up. Composting is a simple and happy addition to her efforts in the City. Maybe you will find that composting works into your World, too.
Last Roses of Summer
Posted: October 12, 2019 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: Autumn, BDSM, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Flowers, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Summer 9 Comments
Summer hasn’t quite finished in NYC.
The leaves haven’t turned.
Perennials are still blooming.
The Roses are having their last hurrah.
Photo: dievca - Hudson River NYC 10/2019
Breathe Deep: a rare Morning treat
Posted: July 17, 2019 Filed under: Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hot Summer, Hudson River, Life, Love, Morning, NYC, photo, Summer 3 Comments
The heat in the City is moist and heavy.
A rare morning off offered coffee and a breeze on the rooftop.
The haze over the city muffled it into silence.
Time slowed.
Photos: dievca 07/2019 NYC
a breath before the Season Finale
Posted: May 31, 2019 Filed under: Home and Garden, submissive | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Flowers, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, photo, Summer 3 Comments
Photo: dievca Chelsea NYC
Eye on the City
Posted: April 23, 2019 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden, Musings | Tags: BDSM, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Love, NYC, Photos, Spring, submissive, Westside 5 Comments
Photos: dievca’s meandering in NYC Spring 2019
Good Morning!
Posted: September 17, 2018 Filed under: Entertainment, Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, coffee, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Monday, NYC, photo, submissive 6 Comments
Photo: dievca 09/2018 Hudson River
Some things are worth the cost. XO
What to wear…killed the moment
Posted: May 23, 2018 Filed under: Discussion, Dresses | Tags: BDSM, Clothing, D/s, decisions, dievca, Elegant, fashion, gala, Hudson River, Life, NYC, Spring, submissive, Summer 14 CommentsSo dievca bought a dress, in the Fall, from a Canadian designer, Eliza Faulkner – she had seen someone in the dress during NYC fashion week and loved it.
It’s cotton and great for warmer weather.
And then Melania Trump made a speech on Bullying – wearing a $3000 hot pink dress. Killed dievca’s desire to wear the dress…but she needs a dress for a Gala this evening and she is digging through the closet.
Weather: 63 F to 82 F, partly cloudy, will be on a boat – breezy. Evening.
Here are some of the choices (click on an item for greater detail):
The two darker green dresses are of heavier material, the pink and the light blue are 100% cotton, the red is silk, the light green is a cotton/poly blend, the Missoni is a mix of wool, silk, poly – etc. All are lined. I have shoes for them all and coats/jackets. Hair up or it will blow everywhere~
If you can give dievca some input, she would greatly appreciate it. dievca is uncharacteristically at a loss. Her brain is fried~
Double the view!
Posted: April 10, 2018 Filed under: Home and Garden | Tags: BDSM, Beautiful, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, NYC, submissive, Sunset 3 Comments
What is seen in the front, reflects in the back.
Kinda like Boobs and an A**.
Lovely.
NYC traffic isn’t only on the streets….
Posted: August 15, 2017 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Boats, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, Master, NYC, photo, Relationships, Ships, submissive, Summer Leave a commentOn one of those gorgeous Summer Days in the City with the temperature around 80F (27C) and low humidity. (Why dievca lives in NYC)
dievca took a break to watch the World roll by on the Hudson River.
It was beautiful, but what really made her smile was that the River has traffic, too. Can’t get away from it. In a 10 minute period, dievca got 4 helicopters, 3+ ferries, a cruise ship, a tug, some pleasure boats, 5 sailboats (in a row – sailing school?), a barge, etc. she decided to take pictures after 5 minutes in and here’s what she got~ Enjoy!
PS. she didn’t realize that Master owned a tugboat – until she saw His mark.
Photos: dievca, Hudson River 08/2017
Being a stinker….(just don’t get yourself killed)
Posted: July 2, 2017 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Bike Ride, Charlotte Olympia, cycling, D/s, dievca, Hudson River, Life, NJ Drivers, NYC, submissive, West Side Highway 8 CommentsFacts:
New Jersey Transit is currently a mess.
New Jersey Drivers are dangerous.
Because New Jersey Transit is a mess, there are more people from New Jersey driving in NYC.
As a biker…this affects dievca, directly.
One morning, dievca almost got hit by a NJ driver who had stepped on the gas through a changing light…and tried to swipe her instead of going into the other lane. Then proceeded to yell out his window that what dievca was doing was illegal (mind you the cops directing traffic see dievca riding her bike to work multiple times a day and know that she is hyper-aware – plus she follows the rules of the road, treating her bike as a vehicle).
dievca, in her stupidity, pedaled hard next to his car and yelled back through his window,
“If you cannot afford to live in the City, don’t drive in the City”.
she has been dying to say that to one of the idiotic NJ drivers for a long time.
His reply was lost at the West Side Highway crossing…
All smug, dievca moved on to the Hudson River Pathway….
and managed to swallow a bug.
Charlotte Olympia Creepy Crawly Keychain Coin Purse
A fitting ending for an ignoramus.
(Really, arguing with a NJ driver – who won’t get it and is stuck driving into the City because the NJ Transit is a mess and dievca setting herself up to do something stupid or get killed is not the smartest thing she has done in her Life….the bug proved that. But honest to goodness, it felt good to say that snarky comment for 5 seconds at 5:30 am before she ate the bug.)
PS. A little extra protein in Life never hurts.
Spring Blossoms
Posted: April 25, 2017 Filed under: Home and Garden, Neighborhood Anecdotes (NYC) | Tags: BDSM, Bike Ride, biking, Blossoms, D/s, dievca, Elegant, Flowers, Hudson River, Life, NYC, photo, Spring, submissive 6 CommentsBee to the blossom,
moth to the flame;
Each to his passion;
what’s in a name?
~Helen Hunt Jackson
Photos: dievca 04/2017
The smell of the Blossoms catch dievca each Spring. she has to stop and take a moment to immerse herself in the Joy.
dievca 