Best Day again

UnknownSunday in New York.  Best Sunday ever!  First, morning service at St. Thomas on 5th Avenue with the choir of men and boys.

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The east portal:

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The east portal as depicted by Norman Rockwell:

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He called it “Lift Up Thine Eyes.”  Good advice even today.  In today’s shot, everyone is looking at a device.

Took the guided tour and saw so many magnificent things; but this tiny engraving near a war memorial touched me.  Truth:

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Then down the street — I mean avenue — to the Plaza

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for tea.Photo 20150129200638185Then after gorging on fifteen tiny little things for two hours, waddled back to St. T.’s for Evensong followed by an organ concert.  Sunday can’t get much better than that.

 

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