Sam

Phil and Karen’s house

Oct 062009

I’ve been up to the house of my friends Phil and Karen several times this summer. They have a home that sits on the Hudson River between the Bear Mountain Bridge and West Point.

Phil and Karen have a butterfly bush: every time a butterfly stops by their house, it cannot resist stopping at this bush.

Phil and Karen let a friend moor his boat off their dock. Occasionally, we go out for a ride on the Hudson. West Point looks very nice at sunset.

The train ride leaves from Grand Central and runs along the Hudson–it’s a beautiful trip.
Sunset

Peter turned 40

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Oct 062009

My friend Peter turned 40 in August. His significant other, Valerie, threw him a surprise birthday party at Stella, a restaurant in the South Street Seaport.
Peter

Cake
Peter works in the wine industry, so my friend Patti made a wine bottle cake. To celebrate the birthdays of my friends Anne and Mike, she added a wine “bible” (also made of cake), written by them.

Pig
Darrin, the chef at Stella, roasted a small pig.

Butterflies

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Oct 062009

I meant to post these photos a while ago. In summer, I took a trip to the Bronx Zoo. One of my favorite places in the zoo is the Butterfly Garden. I love visiting the zoo and don’t go there enough. When you enter the garden, you are given a sheet showing all of the butterflies–it’s fun to figure out if you have seen them all.

Butterflies from the Bronx Zoo

Golden Gate Bridge Panoramas

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Sep 292009

I’m on vacation this week, and we drove up to Marin County yesterday–the view of the Golden Gate Bridge is spectacular.

You can also pan about this panorama of the Golden Gate Bridge at Gigapan.

Golden Gate Bridge

[Administatrivia: this is my 500th post.]

San Francisco

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Sep 282009

Golden Gate Bridge and the rest of the city.

Chefs from the Share Benefit

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Sep 282009

Last Monday, I threw on my suit and tie and made my way over to Chelsea Piers for the sixth annual “A Second Helping of Life,” a benefit to fight cancer for Share. The food was great; I got to meet a ton of famous chefs; the benefit raised a good amount of money.

From L to R: Rebecca Charles, Patricia Williams, Kim Rothrock, Patti Jackson
Chefs at Share

From L to R: Amanda Freitag, Alex Guarnaschelli
Chefs at Share

Dad Brooklyn Bridge

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Sep 282009

A couple of months ago, my Dad and I walked over the Brooklyn Bridge. Despite having grown up in New York City, my father had never walked over the bridge before–he had a great time.

Stephen Greenfield walking over the Brooklyn Bridge

San Francisco

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Sep 282009

I’m in San Francisco now on vacation. I was last here a few months ago for work. The day I left, I dashed over to Lombard Street, the most twisty street in the Bay Area. While I took a taxi to Lombard Street from the hotel downtown, I walked back over two or three very large hills.