Eden Fine Art, NY

One thing I do in NY after work to spend the rest of the evening is to people watch and go on long walks. Rain did come in the way on a couple of days but the poncho from the my Nashville trip did come in handy. This is one of those colorful, creative and different form of art exhibition I stumbled upon.

I did not go inside the gallery, more like window watching the gallery from outside. On another note, not a great week work wise or otherwise. I heard of two couples getting separated. One a cousin of my cousin's husband whom we have met/socialized plenty of times and another a friend with whom I had one too many girls night out. We can only hope we find what we are looking for in our lives.

 

Watched Burfi with a friend on Thursday evening and chatted all night into the wee hours of the morning. The movie was ok with several familiar scenes from Jackie Chan and Charlie Chaplin's movie. Loved the scene where Ranbir catches fireflies with bubbles.

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New York New York

I am at least a month behind on my posts. There are very few months where so much happens and I have so little time to add it to my journal aka this blog. Other times, it's simply more of the same events. I was accompanied by an ex-New Yorker who also happens to be a huge history buff and an upcoming writer. Her book is ready and awaiting a publisher. So no wonder she suggested Hotel Roosevelt. The building is simply NY history personified. The hotel has appeared in many movies. 

I know many who will not act like tourists when they are on a business trips, more so when it comes to NY. I can understand why they do that, but I beg to differ. It was not too hard to convince my travel buddy to the  New York Public Library. I spent my time reading and visiting the free-exhibition on Lunch Hour while she was working on book #2.

Inside Walls - NY Public Library

Here are a few pictures from the Lunch Hour exhibition.

Antique Coffee Dispenser; another B/W Movie Favorite Item

Note the prices. Gold Old Days !!!

A Sandwich Dispenser for a quick lunch bite

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Forbidden Caves, TN

The Forbidden caves/caverns are about 20 miles from Gatlinsberg in Servieville. The natural entrance to the cave is a tiny hole high above, so inconspicuous that it acted as a perfect hideout spot for the Moon shiners to housed their unit. The flowing stream of water under the cave served its due purpose. 

Man made features like adding an accessible entrance, lights to enhance the stalgamites, stalacites and other naturally formed features like columns, cavern draperies etc are part of the hour long guided tour through the cave. The caves were also used by the Indians leaders ... may be like a cabinet meeting (?). 

The path is well lighted making it is an easy hike. The caves maintain it's internal temperature in the upper 50s, no matter what the outside temperature is. This feature makes it a round the year destination.

The gift shop is a must visit irrespective of whether you want to buy a souvenir or not. The place is filled with items that will make you laugh out load. Some inappropriate yet funny. Those I can share, are coming soon in another post.

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Taylor Swift, Country Music Hall Of Fame, TN

Popular amongst the younger women and tweens, Taylor Swift is known for her break ups, match ups with rich high profile young men. Has that not been the case with most star-muscians, may be the heart breaks and aches serves as inspiration to create music.

The country music star is from Nashville and has donated her outfits from the Speak Now Tour to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her music sounds more like pop than Country music to me but I guess she is clasified a Country Music star because she write her own music and is from Nasville(do we need another reason?).

Taylor Swift has an amazing sense of style and is featured in magazines for what she wore to concerts and events to what she looked like when she stepped out of an airport. By donating her outfits, she has attracted a new genre to the Country Music Hall of Fame. A genre of young women too young to know the charisma of Elvis or Dolly Parton. Her exhibits are in the Hall of fame, but she is not yet inducted into it. I am sure her time will come too.

I like to hear Kelly Clarkson or Katie Perry over Swift among the new women vocalists. For no rhyme or reason, "The one who got away" chimes with me over "She wears short skirts, I wear t-shrits". The latter belongs to Swift and the former to Perry.

Each display has the picture taken from the concert and the outfits looks ravishing on her than in the display by itself.

Need I say, this post is dedicated to my daughter and all her friends whose consider it their foremost duty  to religiously update me on the latest on Taylor Swift. Without whom, I would have probably never known Taylor Swift. Thanks to Pandora, we listened to a wide genre of music on the long drive. No points for guessing whose songs played the most.

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