Full Days in New York

Yesterday, the Guggenheim, the Empire State Building (a great sketching location), lunch at Otto's, the New York Public Library; today, the American Museum of Natural History. All day. I have had tropical butterflies fluttering around my person as I tried to sketch them (the atlas moths were easy because they were locked in a prolonged embrace, immobile); heard Kenneth Branagh tell me about the Galapagos, Harrison Ford tell me about extraterrestrial life, and Maya Angelou tell me about the Big Bang; sketched birds and skeletons and generally tried to avoid the large crowds of obnoxious schoolchildren. Tonight I'm going to go and stay with a friend from uni for the next few days. My sister joins us tomorrow. Different gear set required...