We woke up to reverberating thunder from a front blowing through. Luckily we had stocked up on yogurt and breakfast items the night previous so we had a nice meal in the room. We eventually got onto a cab and went to Eataly down by the Flatiron. It was busy as usual but we got a seat at the bar and ordered up a pizza and some pasta. I got the Margherita with spicy salami and Leslie got the green pea filled ravioli in butter. We walked along Madison on the way back and strolled up to the New York Public Library. It was closed the last time we were in town, so this time we went in. We wandered around and visited a few reading rooms. There was an exhibit by Peter Kuper an artist that took a fellowship at the Library at the height of Covid. He imagined a world where the insects had free run of the interior of the library. He drew pictures of bees and dung beetles roaming throughout the library. Great fun. The flower beds were all overflowing with tulips. A couple from Holland told us that they were responsible for those tulips...so how did we like that?
Time for lunch. Time for the rain to stop.
Ravioli with peas
My lunch pizza pie
Boil boil boil your pasta
The pasta line cooks
Yum!
Busy busy busy
This is the kind of mushroom display that I could come back to time and again
The Wood Ear mushroom, now I want some
That is some sort of ceiling!
Looking down to the entryway of the library
One of the secondary reading rooms
We were not allowed in the biggest reading room
It's as impressive as a cathedral
Yes, I will take a brochure
Miss Mariposa
Bees talking
Bug Dad humor
Raindrops
So delicate ..
Thanks, people from Holand
125 years of NY Public Library
