Category: New York

Sort of Wordless on Wednesday

Take a look at an amazing bird’s eye view of Long Island, NY’s Jones Beach. If you look closely you can see the turnaround at the water tower. Just before taking this photo I was able to see my favorite beach, Pt. Lookout and the Loop Parkway leading to it.

Jones Beach from the air
©2012 Dora Sislian Themelis

Fun With Hurricane Irene

We survived Hurricane Irene. Without power all day, we listened to our radio and looked out the window at the crazy weather.

We watched as one neighbor couldn’t wait for the hurricane to be over to start removing the small tree that fell on his front yard. A little while later an ambulance pulled up and he went inside to have his vitals monitored.

What’s with men and wild weather that they can’t wait to get moving and doing? Even The Mr. was itching to get out to his business to look around. They don’t care what’s going on outside. Men are just plain crazy.

These trees fell around the corner from our house. Thankfully, all we had to do was clean up some branches, leaves and repair our fence. The electricity came on at 9PM.  Minutes later we heard an explosion and saw the street lamps go out, along with our neighbors’ lights across the street.

So, earthquake and now a hurricane. All we’re missing is a volcano. That’ll happen next week, I’m sure.

Photos for Friday-Action!

There’s usually not that much excitement going on in my neck of the woods, except for this week. Nassau County Court House in Mineola, New York on Long Island, was host to a movie crew and famous actors. Al Pacino was filming a movie about the music legend Phil Spector, who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend. He was known for developing what was called the Wall of Sound.
Anyway, the movie people seemed to think our main court building looks like California. They even brought palm tress for out front. I never saw Al.
I was just going to the farmer’s market which is nearby and saw all this action. The farmers were saying they hoped the actors would just stay in their trailers and leave the market alone. Maybe they did, or didn’t, I don’t know, but I drove by and snapped some pics of the action.
All kinds of movie stuff was there, trailers, extras, and the local news vans. And me.

Photos for Friday-Veggie Haul

A lot of renovations are happening at our service station business as you can see by these photos. Out with the old pumps, tank, etc., and in with the new equipment. Let’s see..total time from break down to completion will be 8 weeks. Yes, into September. 
Maybe it’s time for a vacation? Can we afford to leave with all this going on? I’ll have to think about it. In the mean time, take a look at my latest veggie haul. Isn’t it just beautiful? Makes me want to paint, and that’s a good thing. Pretty delicious too. Stay cool everybody!

At Pt. Lookout Beach

I finally made it to the beach this Sunday. Pt. Lookout was beautiful on a warm sunny day. Traffic going there was light, not many people hogging up the sand, the water was warm, as was my company of family. I never got to take a photo of the beach itself because I didn’t want to enjoy the whole day through the camera lens. It was a perfect day in every sense.
But I must be really tired because I just posted this to the wrong blog! I thought my banner looked a little different after I pressed the button that says Publish Post! Yikes! My apologies to the 100 Paintings Challenge if anyone was over there and up popped my beach pics! Hahahaha! My bad.

Thoughts on Shopping on Thursday

Finally I believe that my shopping for the holiday is done. There are a few more errands to mark off my to-do list, but basically I am finished. Yes, checked the list twice. If I forgot anything there will be trouble!

While at the mall this week, I was stopped by a number of merchants hawking their goods from these small kiosks that pop up this time of year. New Yorker that I am, I was able to deflect most and keep my eye on the tiger. But this one guy had a good move and some how he was buffing my nails! He was selling Dead Sea Salt facial scrubs and his accent said Israeli. And he’s buffing my nails! Oh brother!

He told me his name , but who remembers? He asked my name, my nationality, and my age. Whoa, hold on there mister! All the while buffing my nails, and pitching his wares. I mean really pushing me to buy his facial scrub stuff, discounts and all, but I refused. When I told him my age he eyeballed me intently and said “No way!” He turned to his co-worker and asked her to guess my age. Give me break people. Are they all in on the action or what? Well, this girl guessed a good 15 years younger than I really am and says No way, too.

Ok, fine! So the young guy buffing my nails stops, looks me in the eyes and says,”You know something? You are a gorgeous lady and you look a million bucks. But your nails look 50 cents.”

And with that I said thank you and was gone. Oh geez!

Photos for Friday- Horton’s Point Lighthouse

Horton’s Point lighthouse in Southold, NY was commissioned in 1790 by President George Washington and first lit in 1857.  It’s a beautiful sight to see from the land, I can only imagine how it looks from the sea.  We came upon the lighthouse too late in the afternoon to visit inside, but I climbed over the chain and walked up to it to take these pictures.  The steep walkway down to the beach was just as breath taking as the lighthouse.

Photos for Friday-Quack Quack

This pair of geese visited our service station the other day.  I guess they ran out of ‘gas’ and needed to rest.  The funny part about this was that everyone stopped whatever they were working on to run out onto the lot and gawk.  People immediately took out their cell phones to take photos.  Like they never saw a goose before!  It was an event.
Anything for a break!  I love New Yorkers, even Long Island New Yorkers!