Happy New Year--2015

at home on New Year's Eve with our friends Tom and Denise and Fran and Bill.. had our usual Shrimp Cocktail.. French Onion Soup..Lobster....of course we had to watch the ball drop in Times Square..

doesn't everyone..

yop.. 'Everybody loves....'  :)   on this first full day back home a drive  down to Myrtle to Costco and Bass Pro.. pretty day..sunny blue skies  74*.. it don't get no more better-er than this :) :)

Everybody loves Raymond

heading home

after a 5 day Christmas week visit to Bruklin it was time to drive back home..heading south.. a nice day pretty and sunny so only had to contend with the heavier than normal after-Christmas shopping traffic...saw a number of large contingents of Police  vehicles headed to the funeral of an NYPD cop in Queens, NYC... clear sailing down to Virginia.. a Sun-Dog in the late day sky...then good ol' Emporia.. backed down for 4+ miles because of a 2 car fender-bender..  just a heavy volume of traffic and 12+ hours later and touchdown.. good to be back home.. my memories of Bruklin and the way it used to be are always a lot better than being there these days..

the day after 'thee Merry'

and the sun still shines an early morning walk down to the fishing boat docks .. Sunset over Bruklin

Sunset over Bruklin

old Fire Alarm box

Baku.. one of many Russian restaurants and cafes

famous Lundy's restaurant building still there

old shut police booth on Manhattan Beach side of Sheepshead Bay across bridge

this says it all

$2.05 a gallon down by us in the Carolinas

St Marks Church