the girls discovered a peach tree in a cemetery behind our friends' apartment today. they picked the peaches and we ate them and they were very good!!! i have some in our fruit bowl for in the morning. they took some interesting pictures of the cemetery . . interesting to me because you need to climb over a very high wall in order to get in . . and i had no idea what it looked like behind the wall until downloading the pics just now! it looks like someone has a garden . . or maybe it's just the caretaker's tools for the cemetery . . if there is a caretaker . . i remember reading about someone who had the last remaining plot available in some obscure and inaccessible cemetery in the east village . . and i wonder if this may be it? (well, i just found some information about the cemetery i believe they discovered today, and visits are permitted "usually" on fourth sundays, april through october. i think i'd like to visit at a "proper" time, and i hope they don't mind that the children took some peaches! it's called the new york marble cemetery).
afterwards, we met my friend janet and her friend bernadette for a two boots pizza picnic with all our children on the high line. it was a wonderfully dark and blustery and beach-like night with the smell of someone's fireplace in the air, the moon shining in the southeast, the statue of liberty's torch and the empire state building shining from the north and the south . . and the sound of the children's laughter floating through it all.
