performance weekend

we spent saturday at third street music school, attending class and performing in the music hour. sunday was spent backstage at the kaye playhouse, hunter college, for the yorkville nutcracker (by dances patrelle). c was a reindeer (as you can deduce from the above photo), and all the reindeer were mighty cute! it was a great show and c had a wonderful time. i had wanted to get us here, but the weekend was just too busy.
after the show sunday evening, c and i walked down fifth avenue and took in all the holiday lights and windows:

the creche at st. patrick's cathedral;

mike the snowflake at saks;

the tree at rockefeller center;

(and my favorite) the windows at lord and taylor's.

4th U caroling

we had our holiday party at church this evening, and went caroling through the neighborhood.

holiday window with reindeer and bear

grab bag

holiday window

well, as you can see in the corner of the last picture, this window scene can be found at the indyke hair salon on 10th street. we pass it on mondays on our way to music lessons. i love these scenes and could stare at them for a much longer time if it wasn't so cold. there is a pharmacy on 8th avenue that also has these houses and villagers. however, they display more of the motor gadgets, the slide and carousel, etc. we like seeing more of the street and rural scenes, though there is a train track in this scene that runs right into several strolling villagers. if a train ever did come round that bend . .

the ice shimmy

i have no idea what this shimmy is all about. i don't think c knows either. it's something her friend made up.

my cats pad through the apartment at night

noiselessly
it's how i would like
to step through the forest