noel vallens: new york was his town

last night, rick and i had a very woody-allen-manhattan style date.  roaming the streets of new york, we escaped the rain by ducking into the planetarium.  we heard a lecture about the stars, moon and galileo’s discovery of four of jupiter’s moons.

photo via Alfred Gracombe

the hayden planetarium itself is a magical and beautiful place.  afterwards, we were pretty much the only people in the natural history museum, and we got to explore some of the dinosaurs and elephants unattended.  (only we forgot to take photos! eek!)

my only regret (besides no dinosaur photos) was not being dressed a little more annie-hall-style for the outing.  but then again, i loved it so much that i’m already planning my next trip back to the lecture.

it was pretty amazing, except the lecturer kept referring to this summer triangle of stars as a slice of pizza, and one of the moons of jupiter as having a cheese pizza-like quality, with little bits of anchovies.  all of the pizza talk made me very hungry, so rick and i had to immediately find the first pizza place after the lecture.

this dress was an attempt to add a little color to a very rainy, dull day.  it used to be a below-the-knee frumpy dress that i took the scissors to and give it a new baby hem.  i’m learning that i really need to start taking some “before” pictures.

and then i rode off on my motorcycle. that i found on the street.

vintage dress - reshaped and redone, evan picone thrifted blazer, f21 belt pulled from a different skirt