Brooklyn

"... I am with you, young men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence..." (Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 1856)



Here is a drawing of Brooklyn in the morning, as people walk across the bridge to Manhattan for work.  Contrasting that, is Brooklyn in the afternoon, with people jumping in the pool, and shooting hoops.



"... I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills as mine..." (Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 1856)
Whitman first published the poem under the title "Sun Down Poem".

Here is an image of people sitting on the roof during a sunset.  In contrast a man is sitting at night outside his brownstone apartment, eating an ice cream.

"... What is it then between us?
What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?
Whatever it is, it avails not -- distance avails not, and place avails not,
I too live, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine...."  (Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry, 1856)

Bear Mountain

Here is a sketch from Bear Mountain.  Clay and I came here to hike on our wedding anniversary in 2017. 

Miami at Night

"...The buildings themselves seemed to swim free against the sky: there had grown up in Miami during the recent money years [ the 1980s] an architecture which appeared to have slipped its moorings, a not inappropriate style for a terrain with only a provisional claim on being land at all. Surfaces were reflective, opalescent.  Angles were oblique, intersecting to disorienting effect...."
Joan Didion, 1987, Miami



Here a view from the InterContinental in Miami.  There is a tiny island of green floating in the blue water.





Here are some sketches of the many swimming pools and carefully landscaped gardens among the pastel hotels and high rise apartments.