I decided this to be a good opportunity to post some more of the photos from the New York trip. I could have talked about my homework, but that has no consequence to anyone but me. Chris wanted me to talk about the spambot attack he just fought off (go Chris!), but I will let him talk about it. So here go the slides:

This is the view from our Hotel room over the Central Park. It is the sister picture to the one I posted with the original NYC post.

Here is a more central picture of the Central Park:

We went to the Cloisters which is a pretty nifty museum type-thing on the northern edge of Manhattan.

You have to walk through a pretty nice park to get to the Museum. This sign is funny because it stands on top of the flight of stairs going down. This is apparently so confusing that they had to add a little paper sign on top to confirm that you should go down (rather than up) to reach the Cloisters.

The Museum is constructed from pieces of crumbling monasteries brought over from Europe.

I really like this garden and will try to steal some ideas for my front yard next year. I quite like the volume as well as the inconspicuous addition of the red flowers to the lower right corner.

This garden is the actual useful garden with food, medical plants and other household uses plants (clothes dyes…). It has a really nice view towards New Jersey:

Apparently one of the benefactors bought the land in New Jersey so the view from the museum is always uninterrupted.

Unfortunately he didn’t buy the waterways, so you still get some sense that you are in NYC.

Little bridies having a bath:

We also visited some gardens in the Central Park (unfortunately we didn’t have the time to go on a garden tour they offer). This garden is inspired by Shakespeare’s plays:

At the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts we checked out modern art and arms and armour section. Here is Chris and some frightfull warriors: