Wandering in Manhattan

Central Park...

The East River...

Grand Central Station...

A seagull with the Statue of Liberty in the background...

Welcome back, to me!

I've just turned in my last paper of the semester, and am now looking forward to a long and well-deserved Christmas vacation! In case anyone wondered about the shocking lack of posting over the last couple of months or so, there were several good reasons (namely, my oral comprehensive exam - which made the entire semester horribly stressful, plus a bout with pneumonia, and the permanent crash of my poor laptop). I guess I will just do what I did in August (after not posting for months)... slowly add my favorite pictures from the fall over the next few weeks. These are a couple of my favorites, from San Francisco at Thanksgiving.

Another picture I took at the Farm this summer...

Do we look alike?

C&O Canal Trail Ride

These pictures are from a ride I took last Saturday. A couple of weeks ago, I made the single best purchase of my entire life - a beautiful Trek 1200 road bike. I had spent months looking on Craigslist for just such a bike that was within my price range. I bike everywhere (usually over an hour a day, since school and work are both 10 miles away, roundtrip), so needless to say, it has revolutionized my life.

These first two pictures are of the C&O Canal Trail, which runs along the canal, as well as the Potomac River, which you see above. When I discovered the trail last spring I decided that I liked DC much better.

The trail ends in Georgetown, and from there I biked down to the monuments, just for fun...

... and on through Chinatown.

Urban Sunrise

Who says you can't watch a beautiful sunrise from the middle of a city? This is the view from my window this morning.