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The dunes at Race Point Beach, Provincetown. Taken on my last trip after a several mile bike ride that totally kicked my ass. Click pic to enlarge.

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Grand Central Terminal, taken after a stupid job interview in stupid Midtown.  At least I got a good pic out of it. Click pic to enlarge.

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Westminster Abbey, London. Click pic to enlarge.

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The Williamsbugh (sic) Savings Bank tower at sunset. Click pic to enlarge. Located at 1 Hanson Place on the edge of the Fort Greene (not Williamsburg) neighborhood of Brooklyn, it is the tallest building in the borough at 37 stories/512 feet. The top floors have been recently been converted to condos, including 2,300 square-foot full-floor penthouses directly below the clock; here’s a marketing shot from the building’s website:

As you can see, even a view from the building’s lowest converted floor – the 18th – would still yield pretty great city views.

Trivia: The lack of any tall neighbors means the hands on the building’s four clock faces were subjected to brutal and unchecked wind, which usually meant all four faces of the clock would display a different time. As part of the renovation/conversion contract, the giant hands were to be redesigned to withstand the winds they faced. Perhaps eager to show off their new achievement, the designers lined the hands with awful red lights that are far brighter than any of the building’s other exterior lighting. Oh, and sometimes they still display the wrong time.

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Bitchin’ architecture, taken in Oxford, England. Click pic to enlarge.

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Bridge. London. Click pic to enlarge.

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Mailbox. Oxford, England. Click pic to enlarge.

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Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Austin, Texas. Click pic to enlarge.

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At the observation deck at 30 Rockefeller Center – AKA The Top of the Rock. Taken through an archway looking down at the street, approximately 850 feet below. Note the garden on the left hand side of the photograph. Click pic to enlarge.

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Flowering magnolia tree.  I don’t think there is anything more beautiful than a magnolia tree in bloom. Taken several years ago in City Hall Park, NYC. Click pic to enlarge.

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The Chrysler Building, taken several years ago. It’s not a very original pick but it’s definitely my favorite building in NY (suck it Empire State Building!). Click pic to enlarge.

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The famous Woolworth Building in its neo-Gothic glory.  The structure was the world’s tallest building from its completion in 1913 to 1930. This photo was taken from West Street, showing the western and southern sides of the building.

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Staircase in near 1 World Financial Center. Click pic to enlarge.

(Ok, given the orientation of this photo, you can deduce that it is not my actual current desktop, but I was getting bored posting only landscape-oriented photos.)

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Taken at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s Cherry Blossom Festival. (Yes, I’m aware those aren’t cherry blossoms.) Click pic to enlarge. This year’s festival will be May 2nd & 3rd; you can track the blossoms’ progress here.

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Some sort of water plant flower in a pond at the Austin Botanical Gardens. Click pick to enlarge.

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Taken at the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, Canada. Click pic to enlarge. This looks like a Monarch but I know there’s a species that has very similar markings to Monarchs, so I’ll refrain from labeling.

When we were kids, my brother and I would collect monarch caterpillars from milkweed growing in the cornfield at the edge of our yard and place them in mason jars with plant life to feed on and perforated tops for air. The caterpillars would eventually attach their cocoons to the roof of the jar and transform into butterflies, before we would release them back to the wild. I’d want my son to have a childhood like that.

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Rhododendron Hydrangea blossoms – one of Mother Nature’s best. Taken at a backyard wedding in Rhode Island. Click pic to enlarge.

For Jess.

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The colorful Montréal Convention Center on a cloudy day. Click pic to enlarge.

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Flower in the woods on my grandparents’ farm, upstate. Click pic to enlarge.

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Long shadows over hexagonal bricks in Battery Park, NYC. Click pic to enlarge.

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One of my favorites. Taken Labor Day Weekend after a morning walk on the breakwater (shown) to the beach (over the horizon) in Provincetown. Click pic to enlarge.

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Office building, Brooklyn. Click pic to enlarge.

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Apartment building at Abingdon Square, West Village, NYC. Click pic to enlarge.

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My god I wish it was summer. Click pic to enlarge.

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Coast Guard War Memorial, Battery Park, NYC. Click pic to enlarge.

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Taken from my old office, on the second floor in the Finacial District. Click pic to enlarge

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Taken on the Brooklyn Bridge, facing the financial district, while walking home during the 2005 NYC Transit strike. Click pic to enlarge.

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The un-cropped source photo for the blog’s banner.  Taken in Battery Park City, this is a wrapper that was placed on the walls surrounding a construction site. Why can’t all construction sites be this beautiful? Click pic to enlarge.

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My grandfather’s first truck; I believe it cost about $20.  Taken the day of his funeral, 2006. Car aficionados should be able to spot the anachronism.

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Bird on roof, Hyde Park, London.  Click pic to enlarge.