With Your Coffee

Burlington’s Moran Plant in winter. The Community Sailing Center uses the yard for boat storage, as the lake is directly to the west (right in this photo). 

Happy Presidents’ Day, everyone! How are you? I’ve been on a semi-blogging break, I guess you could say. Or at least, a blog-writing break. A few [good!] life events and the general avoidance of screens after working at a computer for most every day of the week contribute to this. Also, I’ve been avoiding many forms of social media since November. I’ve deleted Twitter from my phone, and it seems to help my overall sanity, somewhat. However, I’m feeling the pull of the blog again and missing the preservation conversations. To start off, I’ll jump back to the reading lists, because I continue to enjoy good lists from other blogs. Here are some preservation articles.

• The Historic Tax Credit Improvement Act co-sponsored by Senator Collins (ME) needs your help!

• More info from Preservation Forum.

• What is the actual meaning of blight?

• Multi-million dollar views of Manhattan (aka what most of us will never see).

• Doing preservation research? If I were, I’d definitely apply for the 2017 Pocantico Fellowship. Deadline March 31.

• Another reminder: Apply for the Poplar Forest Architectural Restoration Field School. An incredible deal and a wonderful two-week experience. Deadline April 7.

• Signs of Inclusion. Posters that every child (or person) should read. Print these for free.

• 99% Invisible – Read or listen – Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonia.

• Have you read Loving Frank? It’s partial fact, partial fiction, but an entertaining read.

• Have you seen McMansion Hell? It’s highly entertaining for architectural history nerds.

Hope you have a lovely day. And I hope today is a holiday for you.

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Preservation Photos #199

Looking towards Manhattan through the Brooklyn Bridge cables.

Flamingo-grams Special Edition: Flamingos in NYC!

Just a lovely blur of weekend with some of the flamingo gang as we toured New York City. Expect more to about our trip, but here’s a collage for now, posted for the benefit of those who do not follow PiP on instagram or Twitter (@presinpink on both).  Enjoy! There are many more photos to come! {Click the individual photos for larger images and full captions.}

Laurel and Kate on the NYC High Line.

Brunch in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Mr. Stilts is sky high!

The Brooklyn Bridge

A lovely day for flying.

Typical photo. I warned you that you might be flamingo’ed out!

Mr. Stilts joins the horses at Jane’s Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

A classic NY coffee cup. This size small cost only 70 cents.

Sun setting scenery near the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan.

Hanging out in the NYC Subways.

The Brooklyn Bridge

TWA Terminal designed by Eero Saarinen at JFK International Airport.

Hester Street Fair, Lower East Side, Manhattan.

The amazing gift shop at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The museum was even better!

The High Line.

Ready to go!

The view from the Staten Island Ferry, looking to the Manhattan skyline.

Look what we found! Fancy Flamingos! At the Hester Street Fair.