Eyeblog :: Eyebuzz Fine Art, Tarrytown: Only in New York

I don't get into "the city" much, even though it is only 28 miles and 35 minutes by train away. I did actually live there (for about eighteen months), and work there (for about thirteen years), but I do not consider myself a "New Yorker" (much to my mother's regret).

I didn't realize just how removed from it all I have become until I spent the day in on Saturday. I really did feel like a visitor, a tourist almost, and certainly felt wide-eyed and full of wonder.

I'm not too proud a blogger to tell you that I've been sitting here paralyzed for about an hour trying to decide which pictures to post. Also, I have some things on my mind I'd like to write about, which have nothing to do with any of these photos, so I've decided that I'm just going to post a whole bunch of them and I'll get back later once I've gathered my thoughts.

We did go to MoMA. Here's proof.

But that didn't really work out so well, as it was super-crowded, and it turns out that the Tweens Tour isn't so engrossing for...um...tweens. At some point not too far into it, one of them (mine) asked if we "could go to the Gap after?"

So we moved on rather quickly, not to shop(yet), but to EAT.

The tweens liked this, quite a bit. Here is their comments card: Nice butter.

Then, feeling a little buzzed from all of that...cheese...we decided to take a quick run down to ABC Carpet and Home. You can not imagine how much the tweens enjoyed that. Not kidding.

They were mostly agog at price tags. I felt I had found the museum for me. It's all as visually spectacular, and just as unattainable.

And then we saw this:

I suppose we can only call this "The Obama Chair."

Moving on from the six floors of fabulousness, to the Union Square Market in the rain, I went into a sort of produce-induced trance. Miles from any sort of farm, but it is truly gorgeous.