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I must thank you for the kind comments on the last picture but I just didn't want to see my giant face as the first thing on my stream anymore!! :P
Found these cute kids in Union Sq. I got pretty close...I think it was pretty obvious that I was creeping!!
"International Worker's Day (May Day)"
New York,New York
May 1, 2016
(Shot With Olympus XA using Kodak 400TX film. 2.2/800)
Here is my block for this week, I decided to use fussy cuts. See how I made mine on my blog:
americanhomestead.blogspot.com
Ellen
I asked my son and his GF to walk up that path, and then turn around so I could take a nice photo. They immediately started doing this weird walk in perfect synchrony... so weird.
Places to check out in Union Square: Forbidden Planet, Guitar Center and The Strand. Many more, but these are the spots I frequent!
The history of the word asparagus is a good illustration of one of the peculiarities of English etymology—one found in few other languages. After the rebirth of classical learning during the Renaissance, Greek and Latin achieved a lofty status among the educated. As a result, etymologists and spelling reformers of the 16th and 17th centuries tried to give English a classical look by Latinizing or Hellenizing the spelling of words that had Latin or Greek ancestry (and even some that didn't). For example, Medieval Latin had a word sparagus, from Classical Latin asparagus, that was borrowed into Middle English and rendered as sparage or, more commonly, sperage. Botanists were familiar with the proper Latin version asparagus, and their use of that term together with the efforts of the etymologists caused the Latin form to become more widespread, eventually supplanting sperage. Thus, it is difficult to say whether the Modern English word asparagus is a direct continuation of Middle English sperage or a borrowing directly from Latin, a difficulty one encounters with hundreds of other words whose spellings and even pronunciations were Latinized during this time. •The Latin form asparagus lives on in another guise as well; in the 1600s it was shortened in popular speech to ’sparagus, which became sparagrass, sparrowgrass by folk etymology
Source. The American Heritage Dictionary
Met this nice couple in Union Square, when asked to take their picture Rishay wanted to know why and if they were going to be famous. I told him to have his people call my people and we'll talk.
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