This week I had the opportunity to visit one of the office projects under construction, it was so great!! We rented cars and left from the city in little groups. The project is in Troy, near Albany about 3 hours north of the city, so it was great to drive thru the hills forest. I left most of my pix at work but here are a few I had in an email.
The project is a series of performace spaces for the , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
A friend from work is part of a traditional Japanese Drumming group and I took these pix of her performance today. It was such an amazing event, it was so great, and free too!
The Poor Mans Cruise 
Riding the Ferry to Staten Island is the best FREE thing to do in New York!! It was a bit gray when i started out so the pic of the statue of liberty is sort of gloomy but as the sun went down the city looked so amazing.
It was a beautiful day today, a wonderful unseasonably warm day. I was soooo happy : ) A few of us from the office decided to take advantage of the weather and have our lunch in a park near the office. It was a bit windy so my hair was going crazy, but it was a nice day none the less.
i just got an email from a co-worker i had back in paris a few years ago. he sent me a link to the office he is working at in jackson, wyoming. here is an image from the stephen dyhni architects site.
some nice woody projects, they are all set in wyoming so it's hard to go wrong with all those beautiful mountains.
this is not really anything to do with new york : ) but thought i would share anyway, that's why i called it "+ other random thoughts" .
I live a few blocks from central park and I can't seem to visit it enough. It’s such an amazing oasis in the middle of the city. It was particularly beautiful on Saturday with the last bit of melting snow on the ground. It’s still cold to linger too long in the park, but as spring approaches I hope I can have a picnic there and enjoy just hanging out.
I have been my usual busy self which makes for a bad blogger :) but I managed to download a few pix from my weekend activities.
Over the weekend I went to the Harlem Film Festival. It was great, and it happened to be the night they were having a series of short films all by women. All the movies were great, with various political and social ideas behind them. I would write more about this but have to get to work. You can read more if you click Harlem Film Festival above. Here is a pic of the ladies involved. I took this during the question answer time after the movies.
i just tried to change the template and add some links and now my text is huge and OUT OF CONTROL....sorry for the terrible graphics!! I'll have to work on this later. Seems I copy pasted the wrong thing in my little template and messed something up :( and the font is hideous........ more on this later