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More of Central Park

May 4, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

A few more comments about my nice excursion into Central Park last Friday, my afternoon full of walking, enjoying the spring flowers and happy to be having a break from the usual busy schedule. Just wandering about, with no particular goals in mind. Just strolling on toward downtown, toward my own neighborhood. About halfway down the …

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Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: "Literary Walk", Central Park - The Mall, New York - Bethesda Terrace, New York - Central Park, New York - Plaza Hotel

Springtime in New York’s Central Park

May 1, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Spring comes to New York’s Central Park For those of us who live in New York, there are plenty of times for quiet thought and life without the daily stresses that seem to characterize urban living in the minds of so many people. Indeed, the idea of our city as a loud, disruptive place probably …

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Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: "Cleopatra's Needle", Central Park, Conrad (Carl), New York - Murray Hill, New York - Obelisk, New York (Photographs), New York City, Olmsted (Frederick Law), Vaux (Calvert)

Travel Writing: Freya Stark

April 27, 2011 By Guy St. Clair

Searchquotes.com Long before many of us started to put pen-to-paper (as the old saying goes), there were travel writers galore. Indeed, whole libraries are devoted to travel writing, so we amateurs are always on the lookout for good examples. One of my favorite authors, going back to my childhood (I have no idea who introduced …

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Filed Under: Nature Tagged With: I.B. Taurus (publisher), Modern Library (publisher), Pierpont (Claudia Roth), Stark (Freya), The New Yorker (magazine)

Masai Mara (14): Sunday Elephant

May 29, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

Charles and I planned our final game drive for Sunday morning, since the Sekenani Gate, where we had entered the Masai Mara Game Research and from which we would leave, was quite some distance from the Sopa Lodge and it wouldn’t make sense to circle back around. So we decided I would check out of …

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Filed Under: Nature, Travel Tagged With: Kenya - Elephants, Kenya - Masai Mara Game Reserve

Masai Mara (12): Elephants

May 27, 2010 By Guy St. Clair

So perhaps it’s time to ‘fess up. If any readers of these posts have noticed a kind of lead-up, you’re right. There has been so much to write about, and so much to see and share, and since we’re all agreed that this is the experience of a lifetime for Mr. Guy (who ordinarily doesn’t …

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Filed Under: Nature, Travel Tagged With: Elephants, Kenya - Elephants, Kenya - Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya - Wildlife

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