New York Baby

New York Baby!

Black marker on Moleskine paper

8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches

Barbara Muir © 2015

Thinking about The Cloisters in New York City

last May, took me back in a flurry of sense

memories, to being on the high hill where

the Cloisters museum is, and realizing that

taxis (the main way of getting around in

New York aside from subways) did not routinely

go there, and that we were a long, long way from

our hotel on Times Square.

I suddenly had a vivid memory of walking down

the steep hill through gorgeous spring green

trees, and seeing a couple at the bottom of the

hill holding a beautiful baby girl.  It was 

Mother's Day and New Yorkers take that day

seriously.  So this couple, dressed to the nines,

with their beautiful baby were taking pictures

in the park setting.  They told us where we
should walk to to get a cab back "home."

I asked if I could take their picture, and they
happily agreed.  I have been meaning to do
something with those images ever since.
Tonight I found a photo of the baby, and
drew her, thinking all the time about that
glorious day.

Have a swamped-with-happy-memories day.