rainy day special
and it continued through fabulous French toast at Cafe 202 (that my friend Alice, French toast connoisseur, pointed me to) with my friend Jenne, who has just moved to New York; and we walked the High Line talking about the city in late summer,
discussing what we had left behind us in Miami (Jenne is a writer and begins honing her craft this week at the New School) while we passed stacks of windows,
and celebrated finding a neighborhood bar that matches Jenne’s fabulous hair.
Sunday morning began with pancakes full of the market’s wild blueberries that are smaller, more intense, with local raw honey drizzled on top,
and there was a car with three wheels in front of the Chip Shop,
on the way to the Battle of Brooklyn Commemoration at Greenwood Cemetery, where scaffolding adds drama to the entrance (doesn’t this look like a flying pirate ship could emerge? Perhaps I watch a little too much anime.)
And I watched the soldiers prepare for the march up the hill after the battle.
Passing the camera to my friend Kevin, I nodded my head in time to the marching,
and the quiet in another section as the band began to practice,
and then led the charge with “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” (listen for what follows that rousing anthem).
Kevin and I both paused at the Sphinx next to Joseph and Mary,
and felt the image of this older couple was appropriate for the current economic moment.
And then it was off to another American tradition—that of the lobster roll at the Brooklyn Flea (I found a silvery dress), followed by a nap in the sun as the end of summer spins itself out…
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Posted by Kristen Taylor on Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009, 5:12 pm * Filed in brooklyn, Food, Music. * Tags: battle, brooklyn, kristen, kthread, lobster, roll, scaffolding, taylor. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
