a sunday post


This summer 
on a errand 
I cut through
 Grand Central Station
I'd heard about the amazing marketplace 

I stopped to snap a few photos
which eventually were download
from the camera
and 
uploaded into Picasa
potential blog fodder

Last weekend ToonMan asked: 
why do you only post one photo on the weekends?
my reply: 
I find that I get more hits/visits/views 
(not comments, no comments are often as scarce as hens teeth)
on the Waiting Patiently series than any other photos I post

This week 
as I was prepping the Waiting Patiently photo 
I came across this photo of the bakery in the Grand Central Market
it reminded me of when I was a kid in the Bronx

How so you ask?

Well every Sunday morning my Mom gave me 50 cents for BOTH the Sunday newspapers 
(the NY Daily News and the NY Times) 
along with a list of things to get at the bakery:
crumb buns, honey buns, jelly donuts, something I cant think of the name of but it had coconut on it
I didnt really need a list 
the women who worked behind the counter 
knew me, 
knew my parents, 
and 
they knew the Sunday order 

I'd wait my turn 
and 
almost before I could say anything 
they had it all bagged and ready to go
then 
I'd get the newspapers and head home
it was a weekly ritual
I'd forgotten til that photo stirred the memory pot

so this week there's a Sunday post
maybe
 you're reading it as you have some breakfast sweet with your coffee or tea 
dont get any on the keyboard!