Solstice Came Summer's In

Hello!
So what a fantastic day it is! It's SUMMERTIME! Oh just the word gets me excited! So some really fun things have happened this week. First, to take up where I left off last Saturday, I DID take the challenge and go down to the Seaport while thunderstorms were threatening in every direction. The show was at first postponed and then cancelled. But it was not a wasted trip! I got to see, while SITTING OUTSIDE, one of the most spectacular Thunderstorms I've seen in NYC! My backdrop was the masts and ropes of an ancient pirate ship (or at least that's what I was telling myself as I lived out this adventure).

Thick lightening bolts and loud crashes of thunder were happening right above this majestic ship for a good 20 minutes. I was sitting under the corner of a rooftop, but with the occasional gusts got pretty drenched in the power and fury from the heavens. Ohhhh exhilarating! I was completely taken away from the concrete jungle and thrust out on the open seas, like I was fighting the roughest tempest in history with my mates tying down the deck and running starboard to port, and foodbags sliding from left to right, furniture roving in every direction, a shout from the captain to tighten up the sails....... Just before my imagination got too carried away, Alison greeted me and said the show was cancelled. I was like, "really? I just watched the most riveting show I've seen in weeks!".

Us pondering the weather before it became the show - just look at that cloud behind us:


So Friday night was another maritime adventure! To the lost kingdom of Redhook. Brooklyn. Via water taxi! Why? To scavenge the uncharted territory of the newest Ikea in America. HAAA! I only spent 15 minutes in Ikea (not including the checkout line), so the water taxi was really the highlight. Here we go leaving at dusk with the skyline getting smaller and smaller.


So the solstice was on Saturday, and there was a big yoga day in Times Square. Although I didn't participate, I did walk past and snap this shot. Amazing that THAT can happen in such a mayhem overloaded tourist-filled area!


Finally, I was fortunate enough to experience the very best sunset I've seen on NYC streets EVER, on the very day of the summer solstice, how amazing. The sun was casting the orangest light on the pavement and walking in that magical orange light was my goal until the sun set behind a cloud just over a building. The sunsets from a street perspective in NYC are interesting. You have about an inch of skyspace view between the tall buildings and skinny streets. But I tried to capture it on the camera in my phone. It's not totally accurate with the COLOR of the orange. Imagine the light on the street as way more oranger, and you will get an idea of how unique and beautiful this moment was.


Finally, I came across an old clip of a fun event we played for during the lost, unblogged-about months between the LuciOnTour posts and these new ones. We were in Austin Texas at the South By Southwest music festival in March. The show was a tribute to Lou Reed, with many different bands playing creative versions of his songs. Moby was asked to be the final act, so we did 2 songs and the last one was Take a Walk on the Wild Side with Lou Reed himself. It was really special to watch the avid Lou Reed fans crying in the front rows, in all-encompassing awe as they watched their lifelong idol perform one of the best songs in music history. I was honored to be on stage with him, singing doot-da-doots. Click here to watch the clip: Lou Reed and Moby at South By Southwest


More to come as life unfolds!
Love,
Luci