9Aug: Pic Of The Day

This oddly bucolic place in the middle of the city is Central Park in July.  Eddie and I and Trevor took a walk up in the city.  It was the middle of a hot summer week-end and Central Park was both full of people and oddly empty oasis in the middle of the city.
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Central Park is like that.  It can feel at once busy and unpopulated steps away from each other.  Whoever designed the park (and yes I could look it up, but it was a zillion years ago and the name probably wouldn't mean much to me now) did amazing job of keeping the city at bay - particularly since the city hadn't even extended this far north when it was designed.
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The thing you have to remember with Central Park is that Manhattan is an island.  Nowadays we would put the focus on the shorelines, but back then the shorelines were plastered with docks and warehouses - and the rivers and waters we full of refuse.  So the city planners created this unique and artificial focal point for the city to gravitate to.  It runs miles north and south, providing a wodded shoreline, if you will, for the residents.
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