The night is cold and wet here, after a week of warmth. I love the cold and wet, so I’m happy. The sky began to darken at around 4, you could sense things hunkering down, you could sense the weather approaching.
I had some errands to do. It was around 6 pm. I walked along the Hudson River, Jersey-side. The Empire State Building was bright blue and bright green. There are dogwood trees in a little park, the blossoms glowing white in the dark grey air. It wasn’t raining yet, but the air felt wet, if that makes sense. I did my first errand, came out of the shop, and walked towards my video store. I glanced to my right, through the dogwoods, and saw a magnificent sight.
The Queen Mary 2 slowly floating by, right there, a massive beautiful boat, a skyscraper on its side, majestic, quiet, slow – like a glacier. Moving south, so tall, it blocked out the skyline beyond. Only the blue and green spire of the Empire State Building showed above it. It was such a sight. Especially because the Hudson is so narrow, and the buildings of New York City are so toweringly tall … and yet, in that context, the Queen Mary dwarfed everything. She was the only game in town.
People just stopped in their tracks and watched her go by.
It was absolutely magnificent.
the weather here has been unbelievable. i envy your view of the QM.
I really must see this ship in person, and maybe even take a cruise aboard her someday. The summer I spent in LA I watched the 4th of July fireworks over Long Beach Harbor with a bunch of fellow drunken clerks from the DA’s office from the stern bar of the original Queen Mary: a lot of fun, to say the least.
Beautiful, DaveJ. I just love these big boats. They look especially weird on the Hudson – like they’re squeezed in between the two banks.
Dave J-One of my sisters got married on the Queen Mary a few years ago and a bunch of us stayed the weekend onboard. Good thing too because I think I dropped a small fortune at that stern bar you mentioned. It was a very interesting stay, I got a sense of the older cruise ship days.
Red-I just heard the big ships are going to start docking in Brooklyn next year.