TIMES SQUARE ART (A TEMPORARY INSTALLATION)

Sheep were grazing along Broadway the other day. Well, they were only paper sheep but they were certainly a sight to see!! Brilliant white sheep standing around in the spring sunshine. The installation comprised of 24 paper sheep and spans 36 feet and is 12 feet wide. All of the sheep are hand-made by artist Kyu Seok Oh in a labor-intense process involving natural and traditional materials.

When I got a closer look they did appear to be a bit confused what with all the traffic and people milling about.

Here is a portrait of one of the sheep in the flock.

And there was more to see across the street from the sheep. Artist's work had been installed there, too. For several days in March, Broadway at Times Square, besides being one of the busiest streets in the world, was also a gallery. A sign posted near the art work explained: "Times Square Arts, the Public Art Program of Times Square Alliance, is pleased to present for Armory Arts Week sculpures by four artists currently on view at the Armory show."

This is "Mouse" by Tom Otterness.

This fantastic sculpture titled "Star Fountain (Blue)" was made by Niki De Saint Phalle.

This is a long view from on high of some of the sculptures on Broadway.

A WALK IN VANCORTLANDT PARK

All the bad weather that had been forecasted for yesterday tuned out to be just a dreary, drizzly overcast day!! And this morning the sun came out with a brilliant glare making all the ice now sitting atop the piles of snow glisten and shimmer.

I had to take a walk around Vancortlandt Park today. The light was just too lovely to pass up. The trees are certainly dormant and vacant of any leaves making it possible to see the apartment buildings that stand along the edge of the parklands.



There were a few joggers and one hearty soul wearing ice gripping cleats on his hiking boots and he looked as though he'd been doing a lot of serious walk through the park. But other than those few folks I pretty much had the place to myself. I took one of my favorite jaunts off the main path and was greeted by a fluttering of brilliant red wings. Cardinals were all over the place, sitting in the sun, perched on tree limbs, flitting from one branch to another and then they all flew a way. It was really a lovely thing to see, that bright red color contrasted against the winter dormant trees.

WHY DON'T YOU COME IN OUT OF THE COLD

On my way into Manhattan yesterday I had to take a shot of this billboard stretched out across the new location for the 5th Ave and 47th Street Guess store. The snow looks small but don't let that fool you. New York city and the surrounding area is loaded with the white stuff. The only thing in Manhattan is that the street cleaners really got ride of a lot of the piles of snow, carted them away so that getting around in the busiest sections was easier for the pedestrians.