Photos 08 Mar 2009 08:29 am
Snow Day
- It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood. The weather forecast calls for 60° temperatures today. It’s hard to believe that last Monday we’d been hit with over 8 inches of snow. Most of it, by now, griming its slushy path into the sewers.
My friend Steven Fisher sent me some pictures he took in the snow, and they were better than those I shot. So let me post his.
(Click any image to enlarge.)
Somehow, to me, this picture looks as though it could have been shot
in the 40s. Or a Currier and Ives lithograph. In reality, it’s the by product
of a school holiday in NY. The first in 5 years. I can’t help but ask:
Why aren’t these kids home watching tv or playing video games?
There are times when some simple change reminds us that
there is a grace in Nature always in front of our eyes.
The berries at the bottom of the picture are so truly hopeful.
Christmas yet to come.
Even something as mundane as cable wire feels the effects of the day.
Studio cat, Robbie, enjoys the snow by finding a way to watch it
without standing in it. He’s on a gate guard outside my window.
By the way, the pics are now out of focus because I’m shooting them.
Within a day, the mounds of white snow show the effects of the
pollution around us.
Duane Ullrich, a friend who worked on Raggedy Ann, used to say that
New York was the only place that had black snow. It’s probably not the
ONLY place, but it sure is one of them.
By now, most of this is washed away.
The city needs some rain to wash away the residue.
For now, everything is moist.
on 08 Mar 2009 at 11:19 pm 1.Tom Sito said …
What ever happened to Duane Ulrich? He was a pretty funny guy and a great artist. From New Mexico, I recall. I still remember his poem TIME AND A HALF FOR THE LORD:” With Jesus on breakdowns, my stuff sure looks neat, and with God as my Director, I might hit fifty feet…”
on 09 Mar 2009 at 9:06 am 2.Michael said …
Duane worked for a while for United Artists as an up and coming executive. Then UA collapsed in scandal with Columbia, and I lost track of him. Too bad, he’s a great guy.