Tag Archives: New York

Frozen Hot Chocolate …

Posted on March 27, 2012 by mvobsession | Comments Off

Serendipity ~ New York City

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The Top Of New Jersey …

Posted on March 25, 2012 by mvobsession | Comments Off

HIGH POINT STATE PARK, which is the highest point in New Jersey is located in Montague in Sussex County. At 1,803 feet above sea level it is the highest peak of the Kittatinny Mountains. At the peak of the highest point is the 220 ft High Point Monument- from the top you can see New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

It’s been 40 years since I’ve been there so on a recent summer-like day in March my daughter Patty, granddaughter Tiffany, and I decided to go exploring.

There are 291 stairs to the top. I climbed it on my first visit to the monument in Sept, 1972.. I snapped this picture because I knew I’d never do it again. The monument isn’t open for the season yet so I didn’t have to find out if I would or not.. I like to think I would have tried.

Same view today but from the base of the monument.

Views of New Jersey

New York

Pennsylvania

With a little help from this…

… you can see really, really far…

There are hiking and biking trails, picnic areas and a lake.

As the name of my blog implies yes, I am obsessed with Martha’s Vineyard… but I am also proud of my home state of New Jersey.

(There may have been some liberties taken with a few of the photographs… can you guess which ones?)

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Tagged architecture, Family, Martha's Vineyard, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Photographs

Window Light …

Posted on March 13, 2012 by mvobsession | Comments Off

New York Public Library

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NY Public Library …

Posted on March 11, 2012 by mvobsession | Comments Off

As promised in my last post, here is the NY Public Library on 5th Ave.

The cornerstone was laid in May 1902. It was completed in 1910 but it took another year for all the books to be moved in. The library was officially opened at a dedication ceremony in May 1911.

Click here to read the history of the library.

Let’s enter …

(You can click on pictures to enlarge)

The reason Deb and I were at the library in the first place was to see a small exhibit they had on the wonderful PBS Masterpiece series ‘Downton Abbey.’ Turns out the exhibit was across the street but had we known that we wouldn’t have had the pleasure of exploring this beautiful building.

Downton Abbey exhibit…

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Like Kids In A Candy Store …

Posted on March 7, 2012 by mvobsession | Comments Off

In my post of Feb 24th…’Painting Party’… I said I had one more birthday gift to collect. I did that recently with my daughter Deb. There are actually two gifts to tell about. One I knew about, one I didn’t.

Dylan’s Candy Bar I knew about… but before we went there we walked a little further down E 60th St to.

Serendipity 3 for lunch. Why there? Well, because of their famous, delicious, heavenly chocolate dessert….. Frozen Hot Chocolate, which I adore.

I would have gone straight for the frozen hot chocolate but Deb said we should at least have a sandwich or something first. They were okay. I only ate half of the chicken salad and Deb’s prosciutto sandwich turned out to be less than fresh… I’m pleased to say that the management generously rectified that situation.

And then…. tah dah… THE frozen hot chocolate.

This is me today.

This is me in 1994 the first time I had frozen hot chocolate.

Good to the last lick.. and as sinfully delicious as I remembered it… and yes, I drank it all by myself.

You might think we had no desire to even look at anymore sweets. Nope. Still had Dylan’s Candy Bar to visit and use my gift card from Deb.

So down the block we waddled to…

Dylan’s Candy Bar

We were literally like kids in a candy store.

So much to look at, so much candy it boggled my mind. And there were other interesting things like this illuminated staircase.

Miscellaneous this and that… a birthday hat, and yes, apparently chocolate does aid in healing.

Um… hmmm…

Our loot.

Starting at bottom left going clockwise: chocolate/raspberry bar – chocolate covered pretzel balls – a box of chocolate covered pretzels – chocolate covered krispies and chocolate covered sandwich cookies.

There was one other stop, the New York Public Library, but you’ll have to wait a bit for that post as I’m coming down off my sugar high and think I need to rest a bit

(CLICK HERE for a sneak peek at the library lions at ‘Through Jersey Eyes’)