Hello, welcome back from Labor Day Weekend. This is usually the time of year when I can fill a blank page of a notebook with resolutions and ideas for things that I ought to be doing. However, today it's supposed to be 87 degrees and sunny in New York, I'm still in summer mode, and at the moment don't have anything in the least bit intelligent (or otherwise) to say for myself.
So instead I thought I'd introduce this new neighbor I ran into on 74th Street. It's funny how you develop well-established walking routes without realizing it, and I think for no particular reason I'd never really walked down 74th Street before. Well yesterday evening I sort of accidentally did, and I was very surprised to notice these squirrels guarding the entry way to a townhouse (at least, I think it's a townhouse). It was an odd coincidence as at the suggestion of a friend I'd just read No Fond Return of Love by Barbara Pym, a mid 20th century British novelist, and a stone squirrel lawn ornament plays a very, very, very minor role in the plot. And here I found that I was living not to far from a few... and they're very autumnal... and I wouldn't have selected them myself but now that they're there I can't help enjoying them...
Do they have names?
Posted by: Amanda | September 08, 2010 at 05:54 PM
There's no plaque with their names on it... so perhaps you could name them?
Posted by: Awake | September 08, 2010 at 07:43 PM
Patience and Fortitude? Seems appropriate given the parallel's of today's economy to the economy of the 1930's, when LaGuardia named the NYPL lions....
Posted by: Amanda | September 10, 2010 at 02:59 PM
parallels, not parallel's. And between today's economy and that of the 1930's....
Posted by: Amanda | September 10, 2010 at 03:01 PM
I was thinking something more like Prudence and Temperance
Posted by: Awake | September 10, 2010 at 03:03 PM
We could use those qualities, as well. ;)
Posted by: Amanda | September 10, 2010 at 03:56 PM