New York, New York

Any New Yorker can tell you that beautiful weather hits this city like a tidal wave of euphoria. People shake off their foul moods and anxieties to line up at the nearest ice cream truck, children toss off their book bags to dance in the fountains and all the adorable babies do baby things to the delight of people citywide.

Louise and I seized the day by walking over the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan to visit the New Museum then hit Washington Square Park which was resplendent with flowers and sunbathers and that perennial culture of bums, vagrants and minstrels who seem very happy to have their park back after its long renovation.