“Once a car stops and the rich mill owner’s lazy wife leans out and whines: ‘Giveya two-bits cash for that ol tree.’ Ordinarily my friend is afraid of saying no; but on this occasion she promptly shakes her head: ‘We wouldn’t take a dollar!’ The mill owner’s wife persists. ‘A dollar my foot! Fifty cents. That’s my last offer. Goodness, woman, you can get another one.’ In answer, my friend gently reflects: ‘I doubt it. There’s never two of anything.'”
~ Truman Capote, “A Christmas Memory,” from The Complete Stories of Truman Capote
Photograph: © StephiaMadelyne
Corner of W90th Street & Broadway ~ Upper West Side, NYC
Art of the Familiar 
what a beautiful, clanging, braking, lit, changeling, peeled, bitten, dripping, gazing, renaissance image…
Thank you, Steven… I did so enjoy watching them for quite some time. I had hoped I captured something in the exchange… xo
Oh you did. You certainly captured something. It has such an old world feel to it but also contemporary. The fruit stand feels like some sort of living machinery. Gorgeous.
You write beautifully, as always – and your sweet comments… thank you again, Steven.
Please know how much I am enjoying falling into this frame . . .
Thank you so much… fall away!