Our son is letting dear friends from Israel stay in his apartment for several days. Our son is currently in Amarillo. We won't be here while his friends are here so we handed off the keys today to their daughter. We walked across Central Park on a perfect fall day. As we walked East we could hear the cheers for the marathon runners. We needed to get to the other side of Fifth Avenue. I held onto my husband's jacket and when he decided it was safe to dash across the street without hurting any runners.We made our move .We ran across the street and didn't harm anyone.We kept walking east and then did the key hand off. We had to repeat the operation of dashing in front of the marathon runners on our way back home. We walked home back through the park. Because we weren't having to meet someone at a particular time, I could take the time to take pictures of the foliage. I don't know what these papery pods are called but they are beautiful It's hard to believe that we...
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