GraceCourtViews: New Years Day, one day later

When I moved to California, my friends Greta and Shelley began affectionately calling me "Tape Delay" when I was a bit behind on some love life nuances among our group back east. Though I'm now living back in "Breaking News" territory, I felt a bit tape delay once again when I decided to execute my New Years day plan one day later than planned.

I've never walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and felt like it would be a good New Years Day activity. Instead I spent most of the day inside (watching Northwestern lose in overtime! arrgh) before dinner at Cafe LuLuc on Smith Street.

Wearing considerably more clothes than I did on beach trail walks and hikes in California (sigh), I began my journey this morning...

Dipping temperatures and forecast for snow didn't deter the Saturday morning soccer match at Camden Park.

This was exciting to see! It reminded me of a certain Artemis...

Gleneagles, Scotland I think circa 2001. I look much braver than I felt!

On to the bridge. For the navigationally challenged like myself, it does help that Brooklyn is relatively short compared to Manhattan. I headed north on Henry Street and could see the Bridge over the buildings. I turned right on Clark, walked thru Camden Park and the Brooklyn War Memorial and then found the steps to the bridge that my neighbor told me to find. A friend of mine and several people from my office regularly bike to work daily so I was happy to finally make this journey, although somewhat wished I picked a warmer day.

For the most part, urban settings don't make my heart soar the way that nature does. However, there's something very magnificent about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Lower Manhattan.

Two shots of the Manhattan Bridge. The first has the east side of Manhattan in the background, and the second has Dumbo, the neighborhood just north of Brooklyn Heights.