Fleet Week NYC 2023

Fleet Week 2023

dievca finished her swim this morning and caught sight of the Fleet Week ships entering into NYC on the Hudson River.  Note the haze from the wildfires out west.  If you would like to watch a timelapse of the Fighter Planes, Helicopters, and Ships – https://www.fox5ny.com/video/1225154


A lowkey start to Saturday

Have a fabulous weekend and send dievca good vibes as she works. XO


Sunday Morning

Car Peugeot, 1924

2537411 Car Peugeot, 1924; (Peugeot race-car taking a corner on two wheels on Mont Ventoux, France, 1924); Spaarnestad Photo.

Down the road someone is practising scales,
The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,
Man’s heart expands to tinker with his car
For this is Sunday morning, Fate’s great bazaar;
Regard these means as ends, concentrate on this Now,

And you may grow to music or drive beyond Hindhead anyhow,
Take corners on two wheels until you go so fast
That you can clutch a fringe or two of the windy past,
That you can abstract this day and make it to the week of time
A small eternity, a sonnet self-contained in rhyme.

But listen, up the road, something gulps, the church spire
Open its eight bells out, skulls’ mouths which will not tire
To tell how there is no music or movement which secures
Escape from the weekday time. Which deadens and endures.

Louis Macneice

Well, someone likes the weather we’ve been having!

The azaleas are gorgeous this Spring.  An explosion of Joy!

Photo: dievca azaleas Hudson River 05/2023

L’Indécise

admiring the lingerie

Photographer:  Brassai (pseudonym of Gyula Halasz, 1899 – 1984) – historically important Hungarian photographer, sculptor and filmmaker who rose to fame in France.
Subject:  “L’Indécise” (Indecisive)
Date Of Negative:  circa 1930’s
Type Of Print:  Authentic Vintage Sheet Fed Photogravure/Héliogravure.
Date Of Print:  1939 (80+ year old print)
Printmaker/Engraver:  Desfossés-Néogravure, Paris, France.
Paper:  Medium weight, matte finish.
Print Origin:  France
Approximate Image Size:  5 x 3.75 inches 
This print made dievca smile. she’s been here, herself.

Are you ready for the week ahead?

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Good Morning!


On its way to LA

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Photo: dievca - sunset over the Pacific Ocean 02/2023

Winter Dawn – poem

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WINTER DAWN

The men and beasts of the zodiac
Have marched over us once more.
Green wine bottle and red lobster shells,
Both emptied, litter the table.
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot?” Each
Sits listening to his own thoughts,
And the sound of cars starting outside.
The birds in the eaves are restless,
Because of the noise and light. Soon now
In the winter dawn I will face
My fortieth year. Borne headlong
Towards the long shadows of sunset
By the headstrong, stubborn moments,
Life whirls past like drunken wildfire.

Translated from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth

Tu Fu (713-771) was the leading poet in the T’ung Dynasty of 8th century China. In this remarkable piece called “Winter Dawn,” he captures a moment of flashing epiphany with language, so simple, that speaks from another plain and another time, decades earlier, about the swift flood of life rushing by — as John Prine wrote, “like a broken-down dam.”

dievca believes that Mr. Rexford took liberties in the translation to draw the poem into the future – its still lovely.

Photo: dievca NYC dawn 01/2023


Winter Dawn

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Photo: dievca 6:45 am 12/2022


Good Morning from NYC

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Photo: dievca – Chelsea NYC 12/2022


Fog

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The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

Photo by Carl Glassman/Tribeca Tribune


Always on your busy day…

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Bike to work, bike home.
Shower.
Bike to PT, bike home.
Formal Dinner.
All while navigating the Rain and the Wind….

 


Chick in Chains

Chick in Chains

Perhaps a little Tenderizing, too!
Aftercare of your Bird will allow it to cook evenly!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Photo by Thomas Buchta


Workout, Work, PT

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dievca is on the MOVE this morning – are you?

Good Morning!


The surprise inside!

dievca was picking up a few items online from her favorite charity in NYC.  They run a yearly “Fashion for Action” fundraiser and various designers donate items for the BIG EVENT and the online sales portion.

One of the local NYC designers (Cartography.nyc) offered t-shirts with photographs on them – dievca picked up the “Hotel Chelsea” version. Mind you she didn’t look at all the photos listed before buying the T-shirt:

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The surprise was on the inside collar – dievca just started to laugh:

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And so it goes~ Gala Night

The Moon was rising over Manhattan when dievca set out to the show and the Gala:

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she opted to wear:

dievca doesn’t know if the COVID epidemic caused her to go back to her Generation X roots of being a “loner”, perimenopause is causing her to get tired/irritated or starting work at 6 am put her over the edge by 10:00 pm – after 3 hours she wanted out. So, she left after the meal, before the awards, to hike up her skirt and bike her a** home. 

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Photo: dievca – Moonrise Chelsea NYC 10/2022, dievca’s bike, foot, dress, coat and bag…10/2022


It’s a Beautiful Day!

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Cue the U2 Song – “Beautiful Day”

Photos: dievca – NYC Harbor Ferry Terminal 10/2022


Harvest Moon this evening.

The Harvest Moon appears this evening. dievca attempted to get a slice of it this morning on Governor’s Island.  She still needs a larger lens – but the process of watching the Moon Set in 46 F (7.77C) wearing down slippers, polar fleece pants and a cashmere turtle neck was worth it. We have an amazing planet.

Please don’t forget to shake your wallet at the moon to come into $ this evening. XO

Photo: dievca, NYC Harbor 10/2022


Taking a Moment

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To appreciate a Masterpiece.

Photo: dievca NYC Hudson River Sunset 09/2022


dievca always wanted an outdoor shower, she got it in NYC.

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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~

20220828_063548The 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


Do they ever get mixed? An Edible

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Is there such a thing as a Weed FroYo Milkshake?

(Photo: dievca – Times Square NYC)


Drama

Photos: dievca NYC 08/2022


Cycling on a Saturday

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Photo: Topical Press Agency – Getty Images 03/1921

dievca is off of work, again, on a Saturday.
Hurrah!
Maybe she’ll wear lipstick for her workouts.
S.W.A.K.


jump! (not quite yet)

Jump NYC

dievca: NYC graffiti 08/2015

dievca is off of the electric scooter (borrowed from a friend),
back on to her bike (hills are tough),
walking upstairs (not down),
and moving more freely.
But JUMPING?
Not quite – unless its in her water aerobics class.

How are you doing?


Seeing Pink (without filters)

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Photo: dievca, Sunset in NYC 07/2022


“In this world in which we live simplicity and kindness are the only magic wands that work wonders”

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― L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz

Is that OZ  in the distance?
No. New Jersey.


Rain rolling in~

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When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day …

Shakespeare (or Robert Armin) from Twelfth Night

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(Photos: dievca NYC 07/2022)


A moment of Peace

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It Wednesday – Life is hectic, dievca is offering a moment of Peace with a photo from the Portuguese EcoFarm. she was focusing on the waterlily and ended up with three adorable frogs.

Photo: dievca Portugal 06/2022


Smell the Roses

As 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:

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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