Covid 19 Taketh Away, but these Photos Remindeth
When Covid 19 started us sheltering at home, and I started posting daily photo reminders of lovely outdoor memories, I didn’t think I would be doing this for three months and counting.
New York State is slowly and carefully opening up – more carefully than can be sadly said of several other states in the country, states that really should have better benefitted from New York’s experience. I took my first subway ride in three months yesterday, going about important business wearing my mask and keeping my distance, as do most (if not quite all) New York City denizens. But it will be many days before I am likely to take another subway ride and even more than that before I’m living anything close to my normal city rhythm before all contracted mid March 2020.
And as to travel … Maybe again in August, our usual two-fisted touristing travel month, but who can say today to where and how then? Back in March when our trip to Europe was cancelled we felt confident we would be able go to Germany in August. Now, not so sure. America has so messed up its response to Covid, Europe would rather we didn’t visit for the time being …
So the Outdoor Memory pics will continue. The first 40 were posted there. The next 40 are collected here. And I’ll keep posting them until something close to normal travel feels possible again. Without mandatory two week quarantine.
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AIDS Memorial, Greenwich Village, NYC
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Painted Hills, Oregon, during the total eclipse of 2017
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Cherry Esplanade – Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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(Not a faraway escape for me maybe, but heck, I may live in NYC, but I hadn’t been in Manhattan since March 13 and wouldn’t again until June 20.)
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Walnut Canyon National Monument
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Tree-climbing in the Amazon rainforest
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The sculpture garden of Izulina Xavier
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Festive lights on Bergen Street
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Blumenau, a very German town in Brazil
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One of Salvador’s many beaches
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Cristo Redentor, shrouded in mist
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The Floating Forest of the Amazon
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A floating village on the Amazon
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The Rose Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (still closed so far this year…)
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A pear tree in bloom in a back yard in Berlin…
which I would have visited if not for Covid…
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Grave of F. W. Murnau, director of “Nosferatu” and “Sunrise”, in Stahnsdorf cemetery
Notes from a Composer 