As I wind up things in NYC, I thought I'd pay a tribute to my blog friend, Claude, who blogs from Paris. She was the inspiration for this blog as she has enjoyed photography (she is a big Flickr user with over 17,000 photos posted on her Flickr site) and blogging from a big city.
I was too busy working on a graduate degree and adjusting the family to the move to really get out and explore when I first moved here. I was inspired by Claude's daily walks in Paris where she would post on another blog a photo each day. She no longer maintains her other blog but I set this one up to do the same thing. I didn't do it at all on a daily basis like I did (and still do) on my other blog. I was also encouraged when I started blogging by the Queen of the Elder Bloggers, Ronni Bennett, who was just preparing to leave NYC and still blogs at Time Goes By. Ronni wrote a huge long email about what I should see and do in NYC. So that is how and why this blog started. I am a huge fan of her blog and also of Jill, at The Busines of Life, another smart woman who has been encouraging to a new (then) blogger. Claude came to NYC not too long ago and met with blogger Naomi who I've yet to meet in person but thought if I could take on NYC like she does - man, just imagine. So with this blog, I thought I'd eat up this city with the eye of my camera and the clicking of my fingertips.
So, when I came to NYC and studied new media, I learned how to blog as a class assignment. Imagine, coming to NYC and learning to do something that I could do from anywhere. Ironic, huh.
Peace, love and...blog.
What a terrific idea for a blog, and if I was part of your inspiration, I am pleased. And you could not have chosen better for other inpsirations than Jill, Claude and Naomi.
Posted by: Ronni Bennett | May 19, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Boy! I am flattered. I love your blogs and even when I don't leave a note, I read you daily.
Posted by: claude | May 21, 2007 at 06:33 PM
Hatty,
I never knew you had this blog and saying all these wonderful things! I'm delighted if you found me an inspiration and I love, "peace, love and blog". You have way exceeded what I do. I love your blog
Posted by: Jill | May 23, 2007 at 06:58 AM
Your blog is interesting but the "Imagine" mosaic photo on your May 19, 2007 entry. Where is that? I invest in Baron funds and every year there is this Baron fund annual meeting that is always in NYC and it is really cool. One year they had Elton John and Billy Joel perform live with only like 300 people in the audience. Well, they give out t-shirts and the 2006 t-shirt has this "imagine" mosaic on the t-shirt and I really would like to know where the real thing is located, please.
Posted by: Baron Fund Investor | September 25, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Baron Fund Investor: The Imagine Mosaic is in the Strawberry Fields section of Central Park.
Posted by: MotherPie | December 28, 2007 at 01:05 PM