So today I went to the Macy’s Flower Show – it was the last day to see it. Me and Yifan walked down from the dorms all the way to Herald Square. W 34th and 7th – it was at least a two mile walk through Midtown Manhattan. So I can honestly say that I was FLOORED at how beautiful the Macy’s Flower Show is. Each square inch of the store that doesn’t have merchandise instead had flowers, plants, trees, grasses, and vines growing out of them. It was amazing, instead of the usual department store perfume/cosmetics counter scent, the gentle scent of flowers filled the air. Azaleas, irises, daffodils, tulips, roses, cherry blossoms, cacti, banana palms, ferns, and mosses ruled the store. It was an awesome sight.
In less than thirty minutes I had over 100 pictures. The lighting inside of the Macy’s was extremely bright for my digital camera and prompted me to discover how to actually work my camera. I figured out how to change the brightness settings, turn off the flash, change the white balance a little bit of everything. I’m putting pictures up on Flickr… Honestly the photos were gorgeous…
After about 30 minutes of frolicking through a department store and being looked at like the craziest black man in all of Manhattan – mostly by black security guards – we decided to split and head uptown to study for a little while before we met Yif’s friend and headed up to the Cloisters. We hopped an A train and took it until we got to 168th. Then we transferred to a shuttle bus and rode the rest of the way up on Fort Washington Ave. It was the first time I’d been that far uptown during the day, and it was pretty cool. I really enjoyed it – great deal – the neighborhood is beautiful and the hospital itself is gorgeous. The park there is beautiful and it immediately reminded me of Seattle. I found myself walking towards a mansion that looked like it was out of a scene from Batman – Huge columns, ramparts and masonry construction that was on a massive scale that I’d never seen prior to that. It looked like it was half castle/half villa. The inside was immediately beautiful with amazing lighting (my poor camera couldn’t quite figure it out every time) and huge vaulted/arched ceilings. Yifan’s friend unleashed a torrent of information – it turns out he is a medievalist – about the architecture, relics, treasures, tapestries, and artifacts and their historical and biblical significance. I was amazed and felt like I had taken a step back into time. The stories that surrounded the relics were unfathomable…I’m still breathless – pictures after the jump…
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