Sharing Guy's Journey

Thoughts, comments, observations, reactions, enthusiasms

  • Email
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Home
  • Personal History
  • History
  • Art & Architecture
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Current Events

Palm Beach in Early Spring

March 11, 2012 By Guy St. Clair 1 Comment

Had occasion to visit Palm Beach and enjoy a little change from New York’s winter (although – as I’ve commented here before – this year’s winter has been pretty easy for us, so perhaps a “change” was not so necessary, but it was fun).

A visit to Palm Beach is always special, not only because of the good friends I visit, but just to see such a beautiful little city so well kept and well managed. And the people strolling along the streets are pretty easy on the eye, too.

Since my last visit, Worth Avenue- the city’s main shopping street, has had a major makeover. Beautiful new walkways, with crushed shells used in the mortar, producing a nice, soft beige coloring beneath the feet. New palm trees have been installed all up and down the street, and a handsome new clock tower – overlooking the Atlantic – marks the end of the street.

The covered arcades make for a very pleasant walking experience, and off Worth Avenue each of the little streets (which the locals refer to as “vias”) provide elegant diversion if you’re not necessarily planning on spending time in the major shops. And of these, all the usual grand names are still in place, and many of them have been done over as well, giving the entire street a unified and sparkling, “brand-new” look.

Having fun with the iPad 2, I decided to take advantage of the good camera built in (I don’t see how the camera in the iPad 3 can be that much better, as is claimed, but I’m strictly an amateur photographer so perhaps I wouldn’t know the difference anyway!). The photos can be seen at 2012.03 Palm Beach.

Filed Under: Personal History

Guy St. Clair is the Series Editor for Knowledge Services, from Verlag Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, the scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. The series subject is knowledge services, the approach to managing intellectual capital that merges information management, knowledge management (KM), and strategic learning, presenting and discussing new and innovative approaches to knowledge sharing in all fields of work. Guy also teaches in the Post-Baccalaureate Studies Program at Columbia University in the City of New York, where his course is Managing Information and Knowledge: Applied Knowledge Services. With Barrie Levy, he is the author of The Knowledge Services Handbook: A Guide for the Knowledge Strategist (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020). He is also the author of Knowledge Services: A Strategic Framework for the 21st Century Organization (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016).

Comments

  1. Tom Rink says

    April 11, 2012 at 4:56 pm

    Guy, I'd say that your iPad takes pretty good pictures!

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Recent Posts

  • Can We Talk? January 15, 2021
  • An Optimistic Perspective for 2021 January 1, 2021
  • The Metropolitan Museum at 150 – A Special Group of Personal (and Professional) Perspectives December 11, 2020
  • Honoring Frances Hesselbein November 23, 2020
  • Cleveland’s Arcade – An American Art Nouveau Treasure September 25, 2020

Copyright © 2021 Guy St. Clair. All Rights Reserved.