Back to the City...just photos

Here are some shots of my "real" camera....

Just pictures.

 Beauty Queen

 Ginormous cookies

Everywhere....LOVED the flowers this trip

NYC Landmark...doubters scoff if you want to

Dogs

Hats

Decisions

Rock Center

Easter Lillies

Dad and Gray

Take a look

Whatever tough guys who don't smile

Top of the Chrysler Building

A pretty good view

Beauty Queen, take two

Clinton Street

An empty bench

Sun and popcorn

Up close

Taxi blur

Tulips and Taxi's

Tulips and hookers (inside joke)

Tulips and texting

Easter Hat Parade Guy

Flatiron

Peanut Butter & Jelly, donut form

Rock on Easter Day

Beauty Queen, take 3

Flatiron

Love that BB

9/11 Memorial....More on this later but suffice it to say

this was a HARD place to be.  I didn't think it would be

so hard, until I started reading the names of the people

that died that day.  In fact it was almost too 

overwhelming (for me personally)--the emotion

of what all those names meant.  It is hallowed ground (as

cheesy as that sounds)--there was a group of tourists from

another country that even "felt" that--they kept

shushing their children and told them to please

be quiet and respectful while standing here.

And then I saw the name "Grace Catherine  (so and so)"  

Grace Catherine is MY daughters name...right

next to Grace Catherine was "Mary so and so

AND HER UNBORN BABY!"  That did me in.

The thought of ALL the life lost that die in an

act of senseless violence.  It was a good place

to see and a hard place to see.  If that

makes sense.

New Towers going up!