Time for an evening stroll in my neighborhood, again. A short walk up Riverside Drive brings us to the General Grant National Memorial. If you’re so inclined, you could go in and see his tomb, and all the memorializing stuff that’s found in sites like this. I’ve never been inside. In the summer, there is a music series set on the grounds, and I took a shot that Wednesdays might be the night. Bingo!

On the way, while walking through Riverside Park, I saw this guy and his two doggies.

mutt and jeff. get it? mutt? mutt and jeff? hahaha...i make myself laugh

I could hear the music from a few blocks away…

there's the memorial - and here's the crowd

here's the band - a jazz band tonight

All kinds of people in the crowd – people with fancy chairs, with holes in the arms to hold cold drinks, people without chairs at all, people with blankets, people with friends, people all alone. Lots of happy people.

they couldn't sit still!

kicking back after a long day

these ladies were living LARGE

a fancy man, enjoying himself and the music

I walked around the monument grounds; the site is lined with fantastic Gaudi-like benches that are covered in folk art mosaics. Another picture, another time.

all those symbols of power and glory, doncha know

Then I headed home, because it was kind of muggy and still. On the way home I passed the Riverside Church, which is kind of famous, I’ve heard. It has a fantastic exterior, all the detail and accoutrements of Big Fancy Church, including stone carvings. Like this:

oh the shame. why me, lord. why must the birds nest on MY shoulders. what's wrong with the guy next to me. really.

that scene always gives me pause. an airplane flying toward a building... even if it isn't, really.