CITY DAILY PHOTO NOVEMBER THEME - BREAKFAST

 

Breakfast isn’t a big deal in our house. Maybe some yoghurt and fruit, or just a bagel with cream cheese. The only time I get a full morning meal is at a hotel buffet, and they aren’t worth photographing. So, needing an image  for  today, I found this picture of a food stand in the rain under the south end of The Highline in Manhattan. Bacon and eggs might be hard to eat on the street, particularly if it’s wet.            

Ex-New York/New Yorker Photoblogger Meetup in, Um, New York

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When I was new to CDP almost four years ago, I saw a picture on a New York City photo blog that blew me away. I was taken from an el platform in Queens on a wet day with the towers of Manhattan in the background. Wait a minute, I thought, that was my stop in Sunnyside when I lived in NYC. I commented and soon got to know Conrad Dhing, who lived on the same block I grew up on. We met and walked and lunched and took pictures in NY a few times when I was home to see family and a nicer guy you could not meet. A year and a half ago he took a job in Maine and is now the proprietor of Bangor Daily Photo.

Well, he's in town this week visiting friends and we met in the snow chaos of Manhattan yesterday. We had lunch in Chelsea Market and then walked the Highline, the amazing strip of elevated freight rail line on the lower west side that's been turned into an ingenious city park. Fabulous.

The top pic is me, Mrs. C and Conrad just before we went our separate ways (Penn Station was bloody pandemonium yesterday afternoon with the trains still operating on a weekend schedule). Thanks to nephew Mike for the snap. Below, the beautiful old apartment buildings of W. 23rd Street and the Empire State Building in the sunset. Bottom, Conrad's autograph in a snowplow canyon.

Home today.

I love New York.