Central Park

About a week ago -- actually, a little more than that -- I decided I would take a walk during lunch and go check out Central Park. I've been feeling the need to walk off my lunch, lately. Not getting as much biking in as I should.

I ended up spending a lot of time at the beginning and end of my walk staring up at Time Warner Center, and the way it interacts with the environment around it -- especially on a sunny day with a lot of fluffy clouds floating around.

If you check out the picture to the left, you can see that it almost looks like the clouds at the top of the south tower (on the left) seem to continue straight into the building, and how the cloud in the middle of the shot seems to continue through the glass in the same way. I didn't notice this effect until I actually downloaded the picture, but I think it's pretty cool.

Anyway, I forced myself to walk around the southeast corner of the park... an area I don't get to very often. I got a lot of photos of the walkways around the Wolman Rink, and took a couple of the rink itself.

I can't believe that I've never been to the Wolman Rink before. It's a bit of a staple of wintertime entertainment in Central Park, and I've lived in the city for four years, after all. Kinda nutty.

Anyway, there were people out skating, even at 1 p.m. on a Tuesday afternoon, long before the holidays. That's the beauty of New York City. Not only is it true that not everyone here works in an office, but huge numbers of people are free and out and about during "working" hours. Despite the fact that I was destitute, and didn't have money to feed myself, and had no idea of how I was going to pay the rent, I still think fondly of that summer when I was jobless and got to spend all my free time hanging out in the park. Of course, it was the only thing I could afford to do, so there's that.