Tag: holiday lights

• Holiday Lights On Holiday Nights: A Visit To The Edison/Ford Estates

  [The Banyan tree with a bronze of Edison standing guard] We arrived about thirty-five minutes before sunset.  Heading for the admission window, we passed the largest Banyan tree in Florida.  There was a family on the path in front of us.  I heard the mother: “Isn’t that amazing that this is one tree?” “Not really,”…

  patrickjegan

  December 22, 2015

  Blogging, Fame, History, Nature, Objects of Beauty, Real Personal History, The South, Travels

  banyan tree, cluster fig tree, Edison/Ford Estates Fort Myers FL, Fort Myers FL, holiday lights, tree spirits

• Park Avenue on a Rainy Day

  I am standing in the rain at the intersection of the Mythical Avenue and Ordinary Life Street in New York City.  If there’s a map at your side, look for where E. 92nd Street crosses Park Avenue.  That’s where I am standing, safely protected from the speeding traffic, on the landscaped Mall that separates the…

  patrickjegan

  January 13, 2015

  Blogging, Everyday Events, History, Holding onto the Past, Memories, New York City, non-fiction, Real Personal History, Travels, Uncategorized

  class society, East River, Grand Central Station, holiday lights, Mount Sinai, movie stars of the ’30’s and ’40’s, New York City, old movies, Park Avenue, Park Avenue Mall, Police cars, private schools, snowy streets, Spanish Harlem, tulips, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, yellow taxis