#127 Ewing Cemetary

We'd only been dating a couple of months when we went down to Ewing (40ish miles from New York.) I liked that she went to visit her mother's grave because I believe parents are to be loved, cherished and remembered.

#126 View from Lionshead

I had almost (but not quite) met Julie. I was single, working at MTV and--by and large--happy for the first time in a while. Una was and is a rock, a close and supportive friend. Memories of time spent with her are all happy ones.

#125 48th & 9th

Would I love this part of New York so much if I had never lived there? Would I even know it? This spot is only 2 avenues and 3 blocks from Times Square (that's less than half a mile) but very different from, say 48th and 6th, as far away in a different direction. There's no "show" here, just apartments, restaurants and little stores. It's a 10-minute walk to Times Square (and MTV.)

#124 Long Beach Boardwalk

(click for larger view) I haven't been back though I do glance down there now and again when I'm a plane that's coming in to land at JFK. 2007 was an healing Summer, working at MTV and recovering from the failure of Speak To The Stars.  Its a comparatively short train ride out there to a whole different world.

#123 Riverside Park

(click for larger view) Sketched in January 2007.  This text written in 2013.  I couldn't have known when I sketched this view that I would pass this spot so many, many more times.  These days my short morning run takes me to the river, as opposed to Central Park, and I job past those very seats.  When Zoe was a little younger and would actually sit in the stroller, or when she was younger still, barely a bundle, I would take her this way on my way to the pier on 72nd Street.  The paper it was sketched on isn't art paper and buckled due to the water of the watercolors. What seemed transient then, did in fact become a fixture.