This past February my children and my husband had the same week off, which is unusual. We looked at tickets to all kinds of warm places - Miami, New Orleans, Birmingham, Biloxi, San Diego, Phoenix, San Antonio. All proved to be too dear for our wallets. So we grudgingly settled on going to New York City. Again. What new things could we find to do in New York City? (OK, stupid question, I know.) We ended up having one of our best trips ever. Among the many great new things we found on that trip was the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens. This park, run by City of New York Parks & Recreation, is especially interested in promoting the work of emerging artists and in encouraging the interaction of visitors with the art work.
Here is what the site looked like before the park:
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| Photo Courtesy of Socrates Sculpture Park Web Site |
And here it is in 2011:
I want to go back and visit in the warmer weather. It looks like they have all kinds of programs, including a sauerkraut making workshop(?).
It is taking forever for my photos to upload into Blogger. Is anyone else finding that to be the case? I am also having trouble moving the photos around in the blog posting. I have never been good at using a mouse, so it could be me. In any case, I will let you view the rest of the photos of the park at my Flickr page.
Your kids are so grown up already! Cute shots.
ReplyDeleteWere the photos full size? As in many many megabytes? That takes forever to upload and is one reason I like flickr. I upload a photo there, the uploader resizes it as it uploads and then provides a whole bunch of other sizes you can use on a blog or web site.
Even if I never used flickr for anything else, I'd upload pics just for the fast and automatic resizing.
Moving photos around on a blog post is tough. Basically all you get is left, right or center. It's all html behind the scenes.
Polly - The photos don't seem especially big, but I will fool with resizing them the next time I upload some. I didn't even know you could do that! (As I said, I'm not a big photo taker.) Thanks!
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