Kyle XY Underground

So I'm on the train coming home when who do I bump into Matt Dallas from Kyle XY fame. I only had my cell phone so excuse the image quality.

He's taller in real life.

No one else seem to notice but the chickie he was with and offered to take a picture of us together but no I just wanted him.

Update: To give a play by play.
I entered the packed NYC subway at my usual stop then at 14th Street Matt Dallas and some girl entered. He's leaning against the train door and I'm on the leaning on the door used for walking in between cars.
I looked at him and immediately recognized that beautiful smile and those amazing blue eyes. He saw me stare and I could tell that he knew that I knew.

Me: You're Kyle. (I forgot his real name in the excitement)
Matt: Yes.
Me: I've been watching the show form the beginning.
Matt: Thanks, that's nice.
Me: Can I take a picture of you.
Matt: Yes.
Blond Chickie: Do you want me to a picture of you together?
Me: Oh no he's too beautiful I'm not, I just want a picture of him.
Blond Chickie: No you're beautiful too. (Duh I know.)
Me: That's okay I'll just take one of him.
(Took the picture.)
Me: Thank you. The show is coming back?
Matt: Yes.
Me: That is so nice you here on my train.
Blond Chickie: Yeah he's just a regular guy.
(Next stop he leaves.)
Me: Bye.

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Wave Hill

Saturday I went nice and early to Wave Hill in The Bronx because it was a sunny day plus before noon it's free. Up to this point it hadn't rained in a week so everything is slightly dryer than normal. Still it was one of the most beautiful sites in New York City.

At the public gardens looking toward the Palisades in New Jersey.

Some flowering plant that greets you on close to the entrance.

This is where Greenlee and Kendall had their wedding fight.

Ooooh a strange fruit plant.

Here are the strange fruits.

More berries that I don't know their names.

This was the brightest plant in the whole garden.

On of the many former homes on the property.

It was mostly empty, used for storage but quiet serene.

Look a wallflower.

Now this is a backyard.

Now that is a million dollar view.

The visitors center and more in important bathrooms.

My favorite picture of the lot, a jalapeño pepper plant.

A standard eggplant plant.

A slightly different eggplant.

Perfectly shaped plant, like a pine cone.

Some dark plant with dark berries, very mysterious.

Not fried but green tomatoes.

Whoa the plant is turning into a stone.

The bonsai garden.

The view to a small terrace.

Can you spot the bee?

From the roof of the building overlooking the Hudson River.

Snail and grapes, like fine French restaurant.

They have so many weddings here.

My second favorite shot.

Again another hidden bee.

These bees were huge.

This plant was so plastic looking I think it's a fake.

Flowers were growing out everywhere.

Like some sort of garden.

Stunning.

This little guy was smelling up the place very sweet and perfumey.

Some pod plant, very tempting.

Indian corn if that is still politically correct.

You can definitely see the hill from this shot.

Out of the gardens and on to the neighborhood.

It is a gated community straight out of the 1950's TV shows.

A look back to the entrance of Wave Hill.

For further information visit http://www.wavehill.org/home/
Admission is $6 except on Saturdays from 9AM to Noon when it's free.

West 249th Street and Independence Avenue (front gate)
675 West 252nd Street (mailing)
Bronx, NY 10471-2899

Wave Hill provides free van service between the front gate and the Metro-North Railroad Riverdale station and the terminus of the #1 subway train at West 242nd Street.





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Night at the Museum 2

Still don't have a good camera but I managed to take these photos of the filming of the Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian with my cell phone so pardon the quality.

Ben Stiller exiting the American Museum of Natural History.

The plane Amelia Earhart(Amy Adams) uses to return Larry Delay(Ben Stiller).

Close-up of the plane looks like a Monocoupe 110.

More of the plane.

They got rid of the horses to film these scene.

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The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum

It's kind of sad when you are the only people inside a museum, it's even worse when the curator says your the only visitor all week. So who are the two guys whose home was turned into a museum that no one visit?

Well Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian war hero and temporarily shacked up in Staten Island before freeing his people.

Antonio Meucci (1808-1889) was said to be the original inventor of the telephone. He was fascinated with electricity and while working at electroshock therapy one of the patients screams transmitted through the wire. When his wife became ill he set up a primitive telephone to keep in contact with her. Soon after an explosion on the Staten Island ferry sent Meucci to the hospital and to make money his wife sold that phone to a local yocal. A year later Alexander Graham Bell filed for a patent for a telephone, hmmm. Meucci died angry and penniless.

First to get to the island you'll need the explosive ferry.

Yeah the waterfall is still on.

Off the boat your greeted with a place to eat, for those who don't get seasick.

Down the corridor, I just love the light and dark contrast.

This is Meucci or is it Garbaldi, they lookd exactly the same in bronze.

No wonder their dead the bedroom is just an accident waiting to happen.

Nice dude was voyeur.

This was the candle making oven, Meucci invented a smokeless candle,
Garbaldi would learn the same trade here.

The outside of the house/museum.

Here is Meucci's tombstone.

And his wife's, notice it's not as grand you because of that whole selling the greatest invention of the electric era for $6.

Back home and one finally picture of this beautiful day.

For further information visit http://www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.org/
Admission is a suggested donation of $5 but I gave a little less.
420 Tompkins Ave.
Staten Island NY, 10305
Take the Staten Island Ferry then either the S78 or S52.

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