Midtown, 45th Street Between Depew Place and Lexington Avenue

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Lacking inspiration at ground level, I tried looking up.

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Midtown, Lexington Avenue at 45th Street

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Last Tuesday I needed side prong track lights and new photographs. I took the subway to Grand Central (yes, one stop, what of it?), emerged on the Lexington Avenue side and walked to 45th Street. This is lunchtime on a cold day in midtown.

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Hell's Kitchen, 45th Street Between Eleventh and Tenth Avenues

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I've been thinking about which word is more evocative: sunlight or sunshine. I think sunlight. Today is a rainy November day, yesterday was a rainy November day and tomorrow it will rain again, and I'm looking at this photograph taken nine days ago and thinking how sunlight can make a dirty white plastic fence something pleasing to look at.

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Hell's Kitchen, 45th Street Between Twelfth and Eleventh Avenues

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Now walking back east. This is last Saturday, Nov. 4.

It's the fire plug.

By the way, for those of you who live in New York, don't miss the Brice Marden exhibit at MOMA. I was converted last night. He had just sort of annoyed me before, in a vague, uninformed way, but now I forgive him whatever it was because, damn, some beautiful stuff there. Especially the drawings. Here's a link to some images, but you won't know what it's all about unless you see the real thing.

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