outdoors

  • brooklyn loves boston.

    Photo by Lucky Tran; Illuminations by @NYClightbrigade and @illuminator99 I’m not a runner. Just a sister to runners. Proud by proxy. In my estimation, there is only one reason to stand at a marathon finish line. It…

    April 16, 2013 23 Comments
  • gramercy, etc.

    Pink spring blossoms again? Well. It’s gonna be flowers and sunshine from here on out, so get ready. James and I have decided to officially come out from hibernation along with the trees. We’re…

    April 15, 2013 25 Comments
  • make-believe: spring foraging.

    Any moment now the linden trees in Brooklyn are going to open and shower the streets in their sweet scent. When that happens, I’ll be ready with a pair of pruners and a bike…

    April 11, 2013 12 Comments
  • pink.

    James and I had one of those weekends where almost by accident you find yourself checking off the list of things to do in New York in the springtime. On Saturday, a trip to…

    April 8, 2013 10 Comments
  • snowdrops.

    Snowdrops and stone walls and crackling fires. Not much more to report than that, which is just enough for me. Happy April, friends.…

    April 1, 2013 13 Comments
  • new views.

    Last week, the newly built Squibb Park Bridge, connecting the Brooklyn Heights Promenade with the fantastic Brooklyn Bridge Park, opened to pedestrian traffic. As a near-daily park walker, I am thrilled with this newest development.…

    March 26, 2013 13 Comments
  • daffodils and other things.

    On my walk this morning, there were snowflakes. I tired to imagine that what I was seeing were white spring blossoms falling from the sky, but there was no mistaking the chill on my…

    March 21, 2013 9 Comments
  • carroll street bridge

    For the past month or so I’ve been working on a freelance history project with the Brooklyn Historical Society and a public school in the city. Together with a group of ten 4th and…

    March 5, 2013 11 Comments
  • an avian valentine.

    I’m a big proponent of small-scale additions to public places. If it’s the kind thing that blends into a landscape or eventually disappears altogether, even better. For Valentine’s Day this year, I’m decorating the…

    February 12, 2013 31 Comments
  • birdland.

    Friends, they have finally arrived. Yesterday afternoon I was crunched in front of my computer putting the finishing touches on a workshop that I’m giving today back in Providence when there was a sudden…

    January 31, 2013 37 Comments