Sunday, August 4, 2013

Back to summer in the city

I’m back! After ambling around places like this…


… my sights are like this.

After eating a few of these…

… I’m feasting like this.

After a week on Cape Cod, a weekend in Connecticut, a business trip to Minneapolis and a rainchecked trip to London, I am back in New York. New York!

In one Saturday, I managed to make the news (bad hair and all), walk about eight miles, open a New York Public Library membership...
...hit the farmer’s market...
... make a Greek salad, counter it with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, and wrap up season four of Sex and the City and start season five—the first episode of which is when Carrie is having a love affair with New York. 

There is one month of proper summer left in the city. I'm determined to hit Central Park with a picnic, see the Staten Island Yankees, go to an outdoor movie, ride out to Governor's Island, hike, bike and sip rosé on rooftops. 

What remains on your summer agenda??

8 comments:

  1. My summer agenda is now possible.
    I want to stop driving all over the place and just enjoy where I am now living. I want to get the garden perfect. I want to visit the horses at Equine Advocates and I am preparing the house for our first house guests, one of whom is 6 weeks old now.
    Enjoy your sweet last days of summer !

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  2. I love this! And welcome back =) I too have just returned from our Basque road trip - sun kissed and relaxed - and hoping the laissez-faire mentality carries over into a work-drenched August. Ps. Wish we could see you on TV more often!

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  3. A week on the cape- divine! My Summer Bucket List includes seeing the Nationals play (DC's baseball team), catching fireflies with my daughter, a backyard picnic and eating homemade popsicles. Plus there's a stack a books I'd like to read, preferably outside on a hammock.

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  4. Candice, Lindsey and Joanna—here's to an August filled with houseguests, laissez-faire attitudes and plenty of reading time in the hammock! xo

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