The Beat Goes On.. We Pray, We Share ONLINE, We Write, We Sing... Stay Alive By Following the Rules Stop the Spread.......Now!

Everything seems cancelled of late.

But what isn't cancelled is Spring.

That tree comes alive every day....

...in a different way. 

Today it's yellow bordering on Spring Green.

The leaves are hanging limp from rain.

Quiet, steady drizzle reminding me of Seattle.

It's so gray today and quietly gray.

In Monsey NY it snowed.

Barely snowed all winter so...

...caught everyone's attention.

Homes far apart.

Deer wandering through the woods.

Snow covered woods.

A friend in Crown Heights saw sleet.

She told me on the phone while we were talking.

My brother in Greece is a writer.

He's a singer.

Writer/Singer/Artist.

Our Mother was an Artist.

Okay she was a Writer/Artist/Singer.

Nuff said....

You get the idea.

So while watching the rain.

Listening to my brother sing.

I decided to write a blog today.

No hurricanes anywhere...

... but writing is good for me.

If it helps you some, good.

I figure we all have time to read these days.

You can watch this ten times...

..and see different things in his collage in motion.

You also order his book.

He could use the money in Greece...

(LOCKED DOWN)

And we all know what needing money is like.

Good poetry. A very good read.

And online there's no germs :)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980911312

So as I have been a student of history.

I wanted to look back at our history.

Not talking about ancient history.

History has been filled with plagues.

Somehow we naively thought ...

...we were past that.

Nope.

So in ways we are distancing............

.........yet we are socializing together long distance.

Estee's mother is cheerful.

She has a business online.

She and her husband make me smile and laugh.

And that's really good.

Eventually I'll buy one of those dresses..

...the dresses with pockets.

But for one minute last night.

It was as if I was there with them in Toronto.

https://www.instagram.com/esteezonline/

Now back to our regular program...

Corona Time. 

Right?

When I'm in Key West I go near this tree.

Huge poinciana tree.. one of many.

I smile realizing I'm looking up at blossoms...

..from a tree my Ancestors looked at also.

The Royal Poincianas of Key West are glorious.

My family had one outside their house on Whitehead Street.

They also had services in their home until a Synagogue was formed.

Pioneer Days in the 1880s.

A plague is a plague by any name be it a virus or some disease we thought we got rid of and thankfully we have gotten rid of quite a few. Yet somehow viruses find ways of evolving into a new disease that we have no immunity to and as our scientists race for a cure while many of us pray and try to help others and others research or write or sing songs as life goes on even in these social distancing times. My son helped a friend put on a Bas Mitzvah Party for her 12 year old daughter who had her whole Bas Mitzvah online on Zoom with famous singers coming on singing for her as well as her relatives far away unable to attend but who were together online. In her house the family dressed up, danced, sang songs and she gave her Speech to her class and relatives online and she was happy. I mean really happy... and for the first time in quite a while I smiled, laugheded and felt uplifted. There is something magical about sharing in someone's joy... even while physically we are socially distancing but our hearts are together as one. Trust me... we are way better off in 2020 than when my Great Grandparents suffered through Yellow Fever in Key West.

Growing up in Florida my Grandmother Mary explained to me endlessly with great emotion as she told the story explaining that the reason our family moved to Tampa was because Tampa had "runnin water" as in Key West they did not and her mother almost died from Malaria (that's what she said) from drinking water from the cisterns. She had been deathly ill and the Sisters at St. Mary's nursed her back to health and when she found herself pregnant with my Grandmother it seems the main nun came to their tinware store on Whitehead Street and insisted they leave immediately and go back up north if they wanted this baby to live. Grandma described it with great flourish...they swept in with their long black dresses and big white headpieces and the Mother Superior was adamant they leave. Apparently Mary's mother Ida had left the sick house to go and help deliver a baby on Aronowitz Lane across the street and had fallen sick again and they nursed her back to health again. Now once healthy and pregnant they decided to take a stand so they marched into the family store and told them War was coming and that would bring more disease and she needed to leave the Island. So they packed up their fine English pots and pans as Grandma said and took a ship up to Philadelphia and NJ where they had some property and after delivering my Grandmother safely they eventually moved to Tampa where they had "running water" and no more drinking from cisterns. Below is from a book telling their story.

Excellent book to read while you are socially distancing.

Trying to avoid CNN MSNBC and FOX...

(except when Cuomo is on ..of course)

This was always family legend until it was actually in a book written a few years ago by an author who lives in Key West who included it in his book on Yellow Fever epidemics and how they impacted the residents of Key West. Not that I didn't trust my Grandma Mary but to see it in print was crazy and I thought (last year) ... "how does someone live through 104 fever for 4 days and live?"  The footnote explains the details are from the meticulous records of the Doctor in Key West. Sadly... he didn't understand the disease had nothing to do with how anyone was living but it had been the wettest summer in years (historically so) and the mosquito population was alive and well breeding in the cisterns that was the only means of water to drink in Key West. Understand Key West has no river... the rain water was collected in the cisterns and they drank the water and Yellow Fever was a reoccurring theme known often as "tropical fever" so you'll see. 

https://www.amazon.com/JEWS-KEY-WEST-Smugglers-Revolutionaries/dp/0984331271 Really it's an awesome read about Key West history through the lives of the Jewish Pioneers who were there quite early and involved in the Cigar Business as my family was... and supporting Jose Marti's struggle to liberate Cuba ...to rum running and smuggling people in from Cuba who were stuck there escaping from Nazi Germany to the modern time that you all know when strolling down Duval Street and watching the sunset on Mallory Square .. may we be able to do that again soon!  My family was naturalized at the Government Building there as Citizens of Key West and the United States so .. I'm a Conch ;) 

So understand this was what life was like even in the paradise back before there was running water or means to get rid of the mosquitoes and before we had antibiotics and the list goes on. Yet, here we are in 2020 temporarily stumped by Covid-19 racing to find the best way to heal those who test positive and find a way to protect those from not succumbing as the author said... to this horrible disease. Yet, despite how horrible it is we are finding ways to learn together, work together and share joy even on Zoom or Twitter or Instagram or choose your way to share the joy.  A friend wants to come over later this week with her children who play musical instruments and play music to me from down below the balcony. We are all awesome, socially distant but connected with love in prayers and sharing what joy goes on.

I have a commemorative book from Key West.

It was put out by the diocese on an anniversary.

I was doing historical research in the office...

...and was able to obtain the book.

It speaks of the earlier history of Key West in the 1870s.

The times the word "YELLOW FEVER" comes up..

...are too many to count.

My family was there in the 1880s.

and the beat of "Yellow Jack" went on and on.

Years ago plagues were isolated.

Plagues were locational.

Key West and New Orleans had...

Charleston and Savannah did not.

Before my family went to England...

...they came from somewhere in Russia.

There were fires that burned the village down.

There was persecution ...

There were wars and plagues.

The other day while trying to escape a bit..

I picked a book off the bookshelf.

Opened it randomly......

It was about Rabbi Avrohom David who lived long ago.

It was a random page mind you.

In the Kherson region a plague broke out.

Early 1800s I believe.

His heroic work to help many everywhere..

..was honored when the plague was over.

Again.....he survived.

Life went on.

So it is what it is... even random history books.

Bring you back full circle. 

We just have to get through this...

...as our ancestors did.

Okay we are humbled and stumped.

But nothing new under the sun.

Mother Nature continues showing us that.

Rain, Snow, Sleet eventually Hurricane Season.

I'm friends with the Chabad Rabbi in Savannah.

His brothers are Rabbis in Athens Georgia..

..and Charleston SC.

A few months back I was speaking with his son in Savannah.

My husband and I were sitting in their living room.

The walls filled with images of their students in happy times.

I told him my Grandmother's Grandparents lived near Leeds.

He said he's ask his father...

... he obviously recognized the name.

The Abrahams family there was well known.

We wished each other a good sweet year.

Their work in Savannah is inspiring.

Though they were closed this last week...

... they sent food to those who needed.

Hard for clergy to escape this... 

.. many who nurture others were first hit.

And the list goes on and on and on.

I'm praying for so many...

...so many I know battling this disease.

So many I know trying to avoid it.

So what can you do?

I write so I wrote.

I'm here today and thankful.

I'm saying prayers TOGETHER with friends on WhatsApp.

I'm remembering my family's history...

... rejoicing in people who are trying to celebrate today.

Birthdays are celebrated online ...

... my grandchildren in Coconut Grove say prayers online

Chabad School there on Zoom.

An article from Chabad of Beijing.

On FOLLOWING ADVICE FROM DOCTORS.

They did and many did not get the disease.

Just follow the rules. Please.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/china-rabbi-says-synagogue

-shutdowns-shielded-congregants-from-coronavirus/

Yes, life must go on...

Life evolves.

I pray we come out of this better, wiser, kinder people.

We are a global world.

People travel.

The virus traveled... all around the world.

Now may the world heal!

May the message and the cure travel as fast.

Do your part.

Apparently Neil Diamond is...

He wrote a song (like my brother)

About ..washing your hands.

So rather than reach out... 

..reach out online or on the phone.

Wash your hands!

With prayers for your health!

BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram

Ps... Reach out with your heart...

.....reach out with your words and songs.

NHC Says Tropics Are Quiet Both in Atlantic & EPAC. Sometimes Though... Things Do Pop Up So... Never Say Never. Shavous Vacation Til Monday Evening. Eat Ice Cream or Cheesecake ;)

This graphic good as of late Friday.

Official image showing nothing happening.

NHC says for 5 days.

Let's see how that verifies in 5 days :)

But seriously not expecting anything to develop.

June is usually too soon....

...but often things pop up suddenly*

Let's look at the loop below.

Note the flow.

West to East 

Up above and down below.

Frontal boundaries are draped across the US.

Frontal boundaries over the South are stalled out.

In the Caribbean the typical Easterly Shear Zone reigns

Always watch old fronts especially off the East Coast...

....or in the Gulf of Mexico.

They are like dangling participles.

Hard to lose totally.

Sometimes they spin up fast.

A wider look shows us a few things.

How wide did you think I was gonna go...

Fronts up above....

Fronts down below.

Different types of fronts.

And an Inter Tropical Convergence Zone in between.

Note that white line that runs across the middle ...

The ITCZ as it used to be called.

It still is but often other names are used.

It's where our waves roll across and off of Africa.

It's where moisture off South America forms it's own in the EPAC.

Later in the season as this becomes more solid....

...we worry on the real storms... 

Hurricanes.

Not Invests.

Not Depressions.

Not Subtropical Storms.

Not even Tropical Storms.

As the waters warm we worry on hurricanes.

Cape Verde Hurricanes.

Africa up close.

It's worth noting everything has a season.

Indian Ocean is wet...

Tropical Waves are identifiable over Africa.

And each wave gets a bit higher in latitude.

This is a process as old as time.

That's why we have a rhyme.

June too soon.

July too stand by.

August you must.......

September Remember.

It's a cute rhyme we all learn growing up in Florida.

It really applies to Cape Verde Hurricanes.

Remember that asterisk?

* Much like old age things seem to pop up out of nowhere in June. My brother in Greece who is an author and musician uses that phrase when dealing with age related aches and pains. We suddenly remember all too well when our father gave up playing softball and Jai Alai and tennis and or anything that involved using his shoulder too much or too hard. He loved sports, but at some age he became more a spectator unless he was attempting to do catch with my brothers. Spoiler Alert: He was better at Jai Alai and tennis than he was catch...   My brother is getting to that age where things pop up and shift around in his body. It doesn't help that he fell out of a huge Tarzan like Ficus tree in Middle School breaking both his legs and an arm; maybe it was two arms and a leg but pretty sure it was both legs. I was living in California getting a play by play from my traumatized mother. Any time we got hurt or in trouble she was traumatized. It was truly traumatizing to realize you were the one that made her traumatized . . . 

The tropics in June when it's officially too soon are like old age... things pop up. Or maybe like a toddler you allow to play with your new CD and he throws it across the room and it breaks into a million pieces. Okay that didn't happen. We didn't have CDs then and we both think my mother broke it as she didn't like the song. Ouch...this has become a real mean fest over my mother. I loved my mother, I miss my mother... she passed on a few years ago and we remember her fondly with jokes. My father told jokes better than he played catch. I digress....  The point is just like ANDREA popped up suddenly out of nowhere.... so can some system at the tail end of a front and in the Gulf of Mexico from the remnants of the remnants of Invest 91L or who knows. Things pop up sometimes and things happen fast and form in the 4th day after the NHC says nothing will form over the next 5 days. I have digressed enough, back to weather ....

Below is the weather in motion.

For anyone who is new here....

Green means rain.

Dark green means heavy rain.

Red blobs are never good...

White means you have "fair" weather.

I've never been sure what "fair" weather means.

I suppose it's politically correct.

Good weather to me is a storm.

Good weather to you means you can sunbathe...

Flooding as I said earlier a few months back...

....will still be the big problem this Spring.

Going into this Summer as the rains continue.

Dabuh is watching waves.

I'm watching waves with him.

Mike is out on a big boat riding through the waves.

There is nothing currently brewing.

I'll be off until Monday evening.

It's Shavous a Jewish holiday my mother loved.

My father loved them all.

My mother loved blintzes and cheesecake.

Shavous is a Spring holiday.

You can read up about it if you wish.

Spring in the sense that it is Spring and...

...Spring fruits abound everywhere.

The tropics are dead but .....

.....there are berries galore in the store.

Making Blintzes Souffle.

Mac and Cheese.

Pimento Cheese.

Fruit Salads.

Lox and Cream Cheese on Onion Rolls.

Dips from Brooklyn bought in Baltimore.

The meat meals include Shake and Bake Chicken.

Sweet and Sour Meat Balls.

Chicken Soup my daughter is making as I type this...

... making French Onion Soup on Sunday.

Different meals for different days.

But those are the usual suspects.

Oh and cheese cake........

Lots of different toppings... 

Chocolate Cheesecake. Strawberry Cheesecake.

Okay I bought the one with different slices ;)

Trying to rest and keep it simple here.

I know it doesn't sound simple.

It is... compared to things I did in previous years.

https://www.busyinbrooklyn.com/tag/shavuot/

A good link to see what some people make.

Good recipes.

Oh did I mention there's an Ice Cream Bar at the Temple?

www.chabad.org

Feel free to Google it or find a Chabad House near you.

The Ice Cream Party is on Sunday after services.

So that's it.

Please refer to my usual friends online ....

www.spaghettimodels.com

www.hurricanecity.com

www.crownweather.com

https://dabuh.com/

http://www.stormhamster.com/entry2/e060719.htm

There's a few other people but sadly....

...someone's not talking to me.

Maybe I got too silly.

(I'm really sorry)

Or maybe I wasn't sorry enough :(

Anyways...........

I'll be back Monday evening.

Have a good weekend.

If you are at the beach use sunscreen!

If you are doing Shavous....

.... may I suggest Tagamet if dairy doesn't agree with you?

In truth if my oldest daughter wasn't here I'd probably barely cook.

I mean it's dairy? Does anyone really need blintzes?

I can live on yogurt, fruit and ice cream.

And a last note here.

It's not just me that has noticed the lack of storms in the EPAC.

Invest 91L disliked the Pacific so much it swam back into the Atlantic.

It crawled over mountains and jumped into the Gulf of Mexico.

It might still be there rouge like waiting to show up again?

The Epac has been quiet.

So much talk on it still being El Nino.

As far as I'm concerned we are on our way to Neutral.

Neutral as in kind of Normal .. Old School Hurricane Season.

Maybe even checking out La Nina soon ...

But it takes them so long to declare an El Nino....

...they have to wait a while to say it's leaving.

I know.. maybe Modoki

Yeah...whatever.

EPAC is quiet.

Check out Dabuh... 

He's good.

Plays well with others too!

Makes me laugh, smile and dance.

See y'all Monday Night.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter and Instagram.

Ps... as for my brother the writer who knows things "pop up"

Check out his latest book!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980911312

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1980911312

https://loiteringwords.com/

Tropics Quiet Today. Storms in the South, Tornado Warnings But Not TS Barry. Back From Vacation in Crown Heights. What is Crown Heights? Why You Should Visit NY in June...and WHAT IS AN INVEST REALLY?

Officially nothing is going on in the tropics today.

Invest 91L is no more.

Despite giving it way too much of a chance.

The NHC pulled the plug.

I'm putting that picture in motion below 

You can see it's remnant moisture causing problems.

I want to draw your attention to this flare up below.

This area and further to the East will flare up often today.

It's the moisture that was associated with 91L...

...mixing it up with a frontal boundary.

This was and is the real concern.

Flooding.

Torrential rains.

Tornadoes.

Too much can be a disaster.

Not enough can destroy crops.

Kind of a lesson in life on finding a balance.

We can learn much from studying meteorology.

I'm back from vacation.

It was a hectic, crazy good trip.

Not a lot of down time but found some anyway.

You gotta grab those moments while you can.

More on that later ;)

I'm going to talk tropical first.

Personal later.

Feel free to just do the weather....

...or stick around for the rest of what's on the menu.

What is an INVEST?

Please read and remember. 

Thank you!

What I really want to convey here about Invest 91L is that it actually did what most areas of tropical moisture do and that is they drift along with the lower level winds towards some coastline and because either one center could not win out over the competing centers or conditions were not favorable enough they do not develop and they end up as rain over the heartland or low lands of the Carolinas and Georgia or Louisiana. That really is the way of the world. Years ago they were called "tropical disturbances" meaning there was a disturbance in the force in the tropics ... to be plain and a bit silly but very honest. Then we went through a period of naming various areas or tropical waves as an Invest and numbering them and studying them to see if they did or didn't develop. This was not exactly a clandestine thing but it was known in meteorological circles. Somewhere along the line they went public with a flurry of fantastic graphics on TWC or your local TV news and online in the meteorological community. Social media amped up the expectations tremendously. The National Hurricane Center obviously saw it as a tool to remind people it's the Hurricane Season and tropical development could come from this little piggy or that little piggy and somewhere a poor girl seemingly destined to sweep her stepmother's home could turn into Cinderella. Seriously it's that basic and I want people to understand as the season progresses an INVEST has NO CENTER, no real CIRCULATION and winds not of any tropical designation. So what does an Invest have? Rain that has lingered or sometimes it's simply an area with very little rain but model support as models (computer programs) indicated that an area of low pressure could form over such and such a place and deserve the designation of Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm or Hurricane. The problem here is that since they give it a designation of Invest with a number it is raised to real status and it is not... it's like saying wood that could have been made to build Pinocchio was actually Pinocchio from day one when in fact it was most likely going to be used to build a bench but who knows a good carpenter might have built something bigger than a bench. Not to take away from benches that give us all a place to rest...

So yes I will talk on Invests and discuss their potential for Barry or Chantal but we may go through a whole bunch of them with no name given or the next one may form from a stalled out frontal boundary in the Gulf of Mexico that may develop a center as barometric pressure lowers and winds begin to pick up and circulate enough for the National Hurricane Center to designate it a Tropical Depression or Tropical Storm. It is very possible that could happen before the month of June ends. That is what we call foreshadowing as models are doing their thing again showing an area that may be ripe for development. And again it's a good time to look at the areas of development most frequently popular in June and that is.... the Gulf of Mexico and along the SE coast. The frenzy reminds me of that scene from Fantasy Island years ago. 

Compare and contrast June with October.

While the Central American Gyre is a thing.

It more frequently produces storms later in the season.

October is prime time for the CAG.

But that region does produce in June and July sometimes.

It's possible a disturbance can form and get up into the prime region.

And that is what models were indicating with Invest 91L.

Normally it would have developed in the EPAC.

The fact that it didn't and lingered over Central America.

And could not pull it together in the SW Carib...

..... was a pretty good sign it was just an Invest.

But the regime at the NHC this year seems to rely on models...

...more than other teams have and it is what it is.

Subtropical Storm Andrea didn't last as long as Invests 91L

Nuff said.

To read more on what a CAG is read the link below.

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/ppapin/research_cag.php

For those who like to read and if you are here you most likely do.

Get used to reading the actual Tropical Weather Discussion.

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov

You will see how many areas are being monitored for development.

When models begin to favor one area..........

...... it may become an Invest.

An area merely being watched and investigated for development.

Find a balance again between speculation and reality.

Find sources you trust over time.

Sources you have learned to trust over time.

Keep it in perspective but pay attention.

That's it mostly for the weather part of today's blog.

The rest explains where I have been.

And is a good primer for what is Crown Heights.

A place I mention often and just got back from....

Remember his is a blog... an online diary of sorts.

When there's a hurricane out there it's ALL weather ...

....but there is no hurricane today so blogging and having fun.

On a personal level ... hi there :) I'm back from vacation in New York where we went for a wedding and to see two of my daughters and do some shopping for things you can only really get in New York. Amazon is great but it's not the same as actually walking through the Louvre and it's much more fun to wander around and pick things out .... feel some cool air on a sunny day and I gotta tell you generally there is no finer place to be than New York in June. I mean it inspired a song! You can't go wrong going to New York in June. The weather is about as good as it gets !

I was also in upstate New York and I was on the road that goes back and forth from Monsey NY across the river down through Manhattan any which way Waze takes you to get across the other river into Brooklyn because Manhattan is really an island! My other daughter lives in the Flatbush area of New York and we spent a lot of time in Boro Park and Crown Heights. As you know from reading this blog I lived in Crown Heights, I went to school in Crown Heights and it's a sort of spiritual home that nourishes me as much as the incredible food in all the new trendy restaurants does as somehow Crown Heights became trendy. It's a beautiful neighbor that finds a balance for many cultures that call it home. 

Years ago it was a nice, new suburb predominately Jewish built when the subway stop on Kingston Avenue and Eastern Parkway opened up that part of what had previously been a bucolic area that fast evolved into an neighborhood of nice homes on shaded streets for young families who were moving away from the Lower East Side. Over time many Caribbean Island families moved into Crown Heights and found it also a beautiful place with nice homes, brownstones, parks and shaded streets. At some point Chabad Lubavitch moved into Crown Heights after the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson  made it his home and in doing so made it World Chabad Headquarters. Time went by and as the older Jewish population died out a young vibrant Chabad community evolved as many come from all over the world to study and live there for a while before either finding a home there permanently or going out somewhere into the world to take a little bit of Crown Heights with them where ever they live and often return "home" to touch home base as I did the last few days.

Oh did I mention the Dodgers used to play in Crown Heights? You might want to do a little bit of reading up on the history of Brooklyn ...

There's a beauty and a balance to Crown Heights where tree lined streets shade your walk through neighborhoods where people grown gardens and roses bloom in June. Now days there are street fairs, parades of all kinds and a farmers market in a park. People live together in balance in this sweet space where many feel at home and recently it's even become a bit of a tourist attraction. I feel like I'm in Key West with people doing walking tours with tourists from more cultures than I can even try and list here. I even stood on a corner to see what the guy was saying but really time moves fast in a New York minute so I moved on to meet my husband for coffee and a doughnut at Gombo's Bakery. It's so trendy in Crown Heights we now have outdoor patios to eat and enjoy the food and the view. Who knew?

Basil Restaurant NY. Awesomeness.

If you don't believe me.....

...follow them on Instagram ;)

https://www.instagram.com/basil_nyc/?hl=en

Pimento Grilled Cheese with Bourbon Onions.

Fries with cheese and truffle mayo.

Huge portions.

Oh my gosh....

Showing two YouTube videos that show the different sides of Crown Heights but they both show the enjoyment people have of living there and why it's a much loved neighborhood. As y'all know I love fashion so let's start there.

Another view of Lubavitch and Crown Heights.

And some blend the two and still call it home.

It's a big world.

Embrace what you love.

Enjoy what you love.

Accept others with love.

Wasn't this trip inspirational for me?

That's it.

I'm back recuperating from too much dancing....

... too much walking (NY...) and too much food.

Walking from the wedding party venue...

...to the wedding site on Eastern Parkway at 770 in high heels.

And then back again for dancing.....

Yeah I'm resting today :)

I do love Crown Heights :) as you can tell.

Note Crown HEIGHTS has HILLS.

I'm just a bit tired today.

We got back around 1 AM .... 

Catching up on what's going on in the tropics.

Resting today.

Writing long obviously.

Home in Carolina.

Not expecting much to develop in the next few days.

So enjoy the long blog if you read the whole thing.

And I'm home loving the posts of my friends.

Catching up.

Is Mike back from his cruise?

Wonder if either of us got any rest.

Most of us know nothing is happening for a while.

So we take our trips in early June.

June too soon for hurricanes..........

.........but usually a good time for a vacation!

Another best friend is in Myrtle Beach this week...

If you want to enjoy New York in June.

You might want to read up on some history.

I love to read up on history before a trip...

Good site below.

http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/04/janes-walk-2015-

ten-recommended-free-tours-plus-over-100-more.html

Yes, Crown Heights was once  new.... newly built.

A subdivision back in the early 1920s.

Kind of a boom town in it's way.

Check out the Model T Ford!

Not many trees there yet.

Lot's now.

And that's Montgomery Street not Eastern Parkway.

Brooklyn has these big Parkway type streets.

Ocean Parkway, Eastern Parkway.

People walk... sit on benches.

Enjoy nature that is abundant in Brooklyn.

Did I mention Prospect Park nearby?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)

We stopped in Baltimore to see my mother-in-law.

To shop for Shavous and have lunch at KB Grill.

Really good hambuhttp://kosher-bite.com/about-us.html

Bought everything but some fresh fruit and flowers.

Trader Joes tomorrow.

Fruit and flowers!!

(Bought cheesecake at 7 Mile Market...)

https://www.chabad.org/recipes/recipe_cdo/aid/32627/jewish/Shavuot-Recipes.htm

So that's it.

Keep watching the tropics.

Do what you love....

Show love, feel love.

And make sure there's no tornado warning...

...from the remnants of Invest 91L

New Orleans currently has a Tornado Warning....

Besos BobbiStorm

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Ps. To be honest yes we love Eastern Parkway so much we take wedding pictures there and film CD covers there as well.  Okay my son helped make this video and he's hidden in there in a few places and it's one of my favorites so you get the idea... the feel.... the beauty and joy of what it is for me to be there, wander through the Jewish Bookstore, pray at 770 the synagogue, buy my best friend a few presents which I must remember to send out tomorrow and .... be totally exhausted from a huge wedding that went on for hours with much dancing, song, food, music and happy memories. Make your own memories, June is running out... go enjoy New York in June.