Sailing Ships
Mar. 20th, 2004 02:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redthroatedloonI was just reading Salieri's lovely entry about moments of grace -- birds, and moose, and such -- and my first reaction (and the one I replied to her with) was, "Hell, I live in Brooklyn -- no moments of grace here!"
But I take it back.
I was driving home from the library today, on the Shore Parkway which parallels the Narrows (the strip of water between Brooklyn and Staten Island that links the Atlantic Ocean to the Upper Bay, and which then splits into the Hudson and East Rivers). I had to pull over and stare: just clearing the Verrazzano Bridge was a sailing ship, all sails out -- a real ship, the kind you see in "Master and Commander." Heading for Manhattan, probably, to the South Street Seaport, where they have a couple of smaller ships for the tourists, and where other nations' sailing ships occasionally come.
If not a moment of grace, it was certainly a thing of grace -- the day was sunny, the ship sailed smoothly along, and I just sat and watched it for a few minutes. My only regret is that I didn't have my camera with me...
But I take it back.
I was driving home from the library today, on the Shore Parkway which parallels the Narrows (the strip of water between Brooklyn and Staten Island that links the Atlantic Ocean to the Upper Bay, and which then splits into the Hudson and East Rivers). I had to pull over and stare: just clearing the Verrazzano Bridge was a sailing ship, all sails out -- a real ship, the kind you see in "Master and Commander." Heading for Manhattan, probably, to the South Street Seaport, where they have a couple of smaller ships for the tourists, and where other nations' sailing ships occasionally come.
If not a moment of grace, it was certainly a thing of grace -- the day was sunny, the ship sailed smoothly along, and I just sat and watched it for a few minutes. My only regret is that I didn't have my camera with me...
