monday monologue: waterfall hunting

Ok
 sunblock - check  
comfy shoes - check 
camera - check 
ToonMan - check 

Have you all had your morning java or tea?  
And have you gone to the loo?  

The sounds of rushing water water falling can have its effect

Here we go

Because we're us 
(okay because I am me) 
we took a cab up to 100th Street and Central Park West 
armed with directions 
printed from the Central Park website 
(and as back-up a nifty Central Park app for the iPhone) 
ToonMan led the way with me saying 
shouldnt we be walking in this (the opposite) direction 
(yes, Lauren, I know I tend to get turned around)

But 
as we walked 
I could hear the 
water 


While I was snapping away 
ToonMan 
continued to walk 
following the printed directions 
toward this little bridge


Looking 
down 


and 
across


  we could see this


We kept walking 


through the overpass


across another bridge
to find this


We kept walking following the water


to this


this robin 
actually 
waited as I got the camera ready


it was almost 3 pm 
when we headed back 
out of what the directions said 
were 
the North Woods
I had no idea there were North Woods in the Park
the light was kind of magical


no long post, 
dear patient reader, 
would be complete 
without the money shot

this single orange beauty
some sort of lily

** no signatures, too lazy.  but all photos embiggen with a click