Photo of the Day: Washington Heights Citadel

I’m speaking, of course, of The Cloisters, a strange and beautiful exotic flower of art, architectural and the faith that inspired it from the Old World, (trans)planted to the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. I visited there a few weeks ago. It wasn’t the first time I was there, but it never fails to delight the eye and lift the soul.

Photo of the Day: Arch of Wonders

The arch in this shot leads into a garden at The Cloisters, a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. I visited this landmark in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Fort Tryon Park one Sunday a month ago.

Photo of the Day: On a Clear Day, You Can See Forever

Last month, on a Sunday, when spring really had kicked in at last, but before all the nasty heat and humidity, I snapped this shot from one local wonder looking over to another: the Palisades of northern New Jersey, from the perspective of The Cloisters, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City.

Photo of the Day: Hard to Believe This Was Only a Month Ago…

With the temperatures and humidity climbing to uncomfortable levels even now, I’ve already turned up the AC. Just to think: only a month ago this coming Sunday, I was strolling the grounds of the Cloisters in the Washington Heights section of New York on a lovely spring day. Now, this woman I caught on camera would be decidedly overdressed with that warmup suit, and that dog would be lapping up water any which way he could.

Photo of the Day: Pretty Peony

I snapped this shot this past Sunday while up at The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park in New York City. In another few weeks, the garden outside this branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, devoted to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, is going to look amazing…