Bryant Park

girl reading, sketched 6/24/08

Bryant Park contains six flower beds planted seasonally with 100 species of woody shrubs and herbaceous perennials and 20,000 bulbs and twin promenades bordered by London plane trees (Platanus acerifolia) which can grow up to 120 feet in height. The Lawn is planted with a rye/fescue/bluegrass and is as long as a football field (300 feet) and 215 feet wide.

This is my favorite lawn in all of New York. You don't need a blanket or anything, you just walk out into the wide green sea, kick off your shoes and jump in.

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Now playing: The National - Baby We’ll Be Fine

Graphic Novelist

"After reading Christine's books Cheat and Breaking Up, it occurred to me that she's doing a modern-day take on romance comics. Inspired by her work, and by classic romance comic imagery, I set-up the photo..."

-- From Seth Kushner's New York Graphic Novelists project.

Oh, I am back in town and am entrenched in the camp that is not-attending-San Diego-Comic Con. Since my return home from holiday two weeks ago, I've been keeping busy with urgent home projects and bouts of extreme laziness. I just love the summer and the city too much to do anything but lounge in cafes drinking sangria, take naps in the park, and curl up with paperback books! In a dreamy daze, I've been doing some small sketching and career speculating, having high hopes to work on new comics, perhaps another graphic novel on the side, occasional painting... le siiigh...

xoxo,

--christine