Check out these make money writing from home images:
Alvin and Nancy Roselin: “Make It Happen”
Image by Ed Yourdon
Summer’s end in NYC, Sep 2009 – 23
With thanks to my Flickr friend kamihacker, who always spots tiny details like this: on the top rail of the park bench, just above the sleeping man’s belt, is a small engraved plate. Just about every bench in this part of Central Park (as well as the Great Lawn area, much further to the north and west) has such a plate — identifying the individual or the family that donated the money to the (non-profit) Central Park Conservancy to purchase a new bench when the whole park was being renovated and modernized.
In many cases, the inscription on the plate is a memorial for a friend, family member, or loved one, with an indication of that person’s birth and death year. In this case, I first thought that the inscription was in honor of someone named Nancy Roselin Alvin (based on the text in the top line of the plate), and that one of her favorite sayings (as indicated by the phrase at the bottom of the plate) was "Make it happen." But then I did a little Google research and found this 1993 wedding notice indicating that the son of Alvin and Nancy Roselin had just gotten married…
To see an even more amazing example of this, take a look at the Bill Gottshalk Memorial Bench, which I photographed while walking back through Central Park on my return from a doctor’s appointment, in June 2008.
**************************************
Note: this photo was published in an Oct 29, 2010 blog titled "Q&A: if you dont have a web site or anything to sell can you still make money with google, or paypall?" It was also published in a Nov 21, 2010 ProfitQuickies4Newbies blog, with the same title and detailed notes as what I had written on this Flickr page. And it was published in a Nov 26, 2010 blog titled "Casual Wedding Ideas." It was also published in a Dec 30, 2010 Profit Quickies 4 Newbies blog, with the same title and detailed notes that I had written on this Flickr page.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Jan 10, 2011 blog titled "How To Make Money Online And Earn Money Online From Home." It was also published in a Feb 24, 2011 blog titled "Nice Pics Earn Money Online."
**************************************
Labor Day weekend has traditionally marked the end of the summer season throughout the United States, even though the summer solstice doesn’t come to an end for another couple of weeks. Vacations are over, school is starting, and we all know that the long, hot days of summer are gone for yet another year (and as a Sep 6, 2009 New York Times editorial titled "This Seasonal Parade" points out, we’re now halfway through the hurricane season)…
For the last few years, I’ve acknowledged Labor Day by walking through Central Park here in New York City, to see how everyone else is enjoying or lamenting this end-of-season weekend. After a while, you have a general idea of what you’re likely to see, as long as the weather cooperates: lots of sunbathing, lots of frisbee, lots of picnics, lots of kids running around the meadows and lawns as if the warm weather might last forever. Many of these scenes I’ve photographed multiple times, and I had no particular interest in repeating what I’ve already done before (here, for example is the Flickr set of photos from my 2008 stroll). So I didn’t take any photos of the runners along the Central Park reservoir, didn’t bother with most of the people on bicycles, and didn’t pay much attention to the bikini-clad beauties out on the grass…
But there are always some unique sights, and I did my best to capture them in this set of photos. What struck me most this year was the music that I saw (and heard) almost everywhere: jazz trios, solitary musicians, an absolutely wonderful folk-music trio called The Dirty Urchins (check them out on Twitter, MySpace, and the Web), a violin trio of teenaged Chinese girls, a solitary violinist playing Puccini opera pieces, and several others that I’ve probably forgotten. Oh, yeah, and there were also the mimes: the gold man, the spring faerie, and so many others.
All in all, Central Park is one of the most magical places in the world. If you haven’t been here, you have no idea what you’re missing. Of course you should come here to the Center of the Universe to see the Empire State Building, the Staten Island Ferry, the Statue of Liberty, and Ground Zero. But you need to set aside at least a whole day to see Central Park. I hope this set of Flickr photos will give you a brief glimpse of why it matters so much…
You must log in to post a comment.