TGIF, Park Slope

The people at the outdoor cafes having frozen margaritas would like to toast your athletic ways. When the guacamole arrives, they will be too busy to look up from the table.

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More walking and reading, Park Slope

Sigh… it wouldn’t be the same with an electronic book. When you see someone reading an ebook, you can’t gauge their involvement, whether they just started, are in the middle, or if they are racing to finish the last few pages.

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Vanilla soft serve (walking & eating)

New Yorkers are always eating in public, which makes me happy because it’s often photogenic. Warm weather is the best because it involves ice cream, frozen treats, and silly, noisy vehicles that make children happy and drive adults buggy.

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Walking & reading (Park Slope)

Park Slope is a neighborhood of readers. This picture was taken near the subway, so the woman could have gotten off the train and needed to keep reading to find out what happened in her book.

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Bringing home the pizza

She is a woman on a mission; I understand. Pizza is serious business. But I also take a large pie more seriously than a small one.

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Exiting the subway, 7th Avenue

It’s Good Friday, so more people are out on the sidewalk than usual in lovely Park Slope. The moody teen, woman with a dog, and striped shirt with meathook could be anywhere. But unless you know the Smiling Pizza corner, you might need a key: there’s a police van parked across from the ice cream shop (blue awning) and stationer. The nearby crepe store has good coffee, because this is neighborhood that knows and cares about caffeine.

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Cyclist in Park Slope

Since there’s generally less traffic in the outer boroughs, drivers are always looking for those gaps where they can speed and make up some time. They curse at the bikes and people on foot then zoom around them.

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Yeah, we’ve got a parade

Park Slope had its St. Patrick’s parade today. It was over before I knew it so quickly I didn’t get any pictures.

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Put two things together

Put two pictorial elements together and the mind starts making up stories. I turned these two into road-race competitors (she is the hare). But when I looked closer, it became obvious that they are on the same team: same gray and black outfits, same serious expressions. I need to look around and find their competitors.

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Two days to St. Paddy’s

Two days before St. Patrick’s Day, and the wee men call leprechauns are still mending shoes. (That’s what they do when they are not up to mischief.) Celebrations could be rather spirited this year, with the 17th falling on a Saturday and warm weather predicted.

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