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Tuesday, April 29. 2014

Central Park, NYC


A friend sent this snap of the Sheep Meadow, last weekend.


Posted by Bird Dog at 04:52 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Amazing. I've seen the same thing in other large cities and it always inspires awe and introspection. I stand looking and wondering why anyone would want to l1ve in a place where lying on the grass means being 10' away from someone else doing the same. I'll take my yard where I can sit all day and never see another human.
#1 FRP on 2014-04-29 07:20 (Reply)
I had to google Sheep Meadow. I think this picture might sum up everything I would hate about NYC. My first reaction was "What are these people doing?" A concert? The world's biggest picnic? I can't imagine living near so many people that my idea of getting away to a quiet place is sharing a lawn with thousands of strangers. I would get more peace from mowing this lawn than being one of the people in the photo.
#2 Jack Walter on 2014-04-29 07:40 (Reply)
Hey - it's a park.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2014-04-29 10:59 (Reply)
I must say, the cattle I see lounging in the fields around here aren't nearly a colorfully dressed. So there is that.
#3 JKB on 2014-04-29 08:02 (Reply)
What idiots put those clothes on those sheep? Call the SPCA, stat!
#4 Sam L. on 2014-04-29 10:22 (Reply)
The sheep are better shorn than in the '70s.
#5 BillH on 2014-04-29 10:48 (Reply)

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