Shack Burger - A New York spin on the West-Coast style burger

http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2008/06/shake-shack-flatiron-district-madison-square-park-manhattan-burgers-nyc.html

Midtown New York lunchtime

A guide to attaining culinary satisfaction in the food wasteland of Midtown Manhattan!
http://midtownlunch.com/zachs-picks/

...read some Readers polls:
http://midtownlunch.com/2009/01/07/the-best-midtown-lunches-as-voted-on-by-you-2008-edition/

And meet the Vendy Awards finalists
http://streetvendor.org/vendys/finalists

Is it just October or is it Oktoberfest ?

Oktoberfest - Germany













Trivia about the 2009 Oktoberfest event
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/article/About+the+Oktoberfest/About+the+Oktoberfest/%22Just+a+nice+Oktoberfest!%22/1454/

Leisure....time to stand and stare

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

-William Henry Davies (3 July 1871 – 26 September 1940), a Welsh poet and writer.

The house that William Davies last lived in - 'Glendower', Watledge, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, UK