We were in the city, NYC, yesterday for Lucy’s HS graduation dinner, which was at Benoit, a French bistro presented by Alain Ducasse. I mention that only because the six of us ate at the Paris Benoit when we were there to visit Lucy during her year in France. The six in question are me and Judy, Val and Steve, and Maggie and Lucy. I would say that the NYC one is as good as the one in Paris. We all rolled out well stuffed and wined. Sober Judy drove us home. Graduation isn’t actually until mid-June.
Judy and I arrived early, when we allow extra travel time for traffic, we always fly through whatever tunnel or over whatever bridge. Being early, we walked down Fifth Ave. to Rockefeller Center and back uptown on Sixth. Artist Jeff Koons’ installation ‘Seated Ballerina’ is sitting on the spot usually occupied by the tree at Xmas. She is a forty-foot tall silver inflatable who dwarfs Prometheus.
New blooms: red chokeberry [already done, but not forgotten], Stewartia, red spirea, elderberry.
Peony, 'single', not 'double' which has many more petals that often obscure the center.
Male English holly flower has four, yellow pollen-tipped stamens per each little flower, but no ovary.
Female English holly flower has a green ovary in the center that will become the red berry if it gets fertilized by the male pollen from a different tree. The female flowers have fake stamens around the ovary.
Stewartia pseudocamellia above and below. Most of the flowers, like Jupiter, have a red spot.
Spotless Stewartia.
Fifth Ave near Rockefeller Center.
Rock Center where the tree stands at Xmas, now home to the ballerina.
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