#beautifulcommute

[theagrant]

The art of rain soaked cardboard left at the curb... #dayinthelife #aftertherain #dumbo #brooklyn #streetart #foundobject #foundart #perspective #sculpure #cardboard #corrugated #boxes #trash #gotham #beautifulcommute #onemanstrashisanothermanstreasure #rain #rainsoaked #soaked #waterlogged #theartofpaper #cardboardbox #cardboardboxes #curb #TGDiary (at DUMBO, Brooklyn)

[theagrant]

Day in the life...on the way to work in the summer months...(school doesn’t start for another week!) #theagrantjewelry #beautifulcommute #dayinthelife #TGdiary #kidinthehat #silverpennieskid #takeyourkidstoworkdayeveryday #bazzdegrantfamily #ladyinred #vintagestyle #vintagefashion#oshkoshbgosh #retaillife #sonofajeweler #takeyourkidseverywhere (at Brooklyn, New York)

[loriemyers]

Amazing Winter Solstice sunset tonight! 😊 #sunsetsky #wintersolstice2017🌙 #beautifulcommute #paintedsky

[theagrant]

Underfoot in DUMBO...if you are not familiar DUMBO is a fascinating and history-laden enclave at the base of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, an industrial and much-preserved warehouse district where we have had the pleasure of working both at our studio-and now our shop-for 10 years...these are Belgian block stones which used to serve as ballast in trade ships traveling from Europe in centuries past, arriving with empty hulls, and much like today’s shipping containers these blocks were abandoned at port here in New York when the ships took on goods to sail back home. Although they can make riding in any wheels challenging, I never tire of how beautiful these fragments of the history of New York are and never cease to admire them whenever we walk over their sun-beaten and smoothed-out stone surfaces. #dayinthelife #TGdiary #cobblestones #belgianblock #stone #underfoot #lookdown #street #streetscene #beautifulcommute #dumbo #brooklyn #brooklynwaterfront #gotham #historylesson #nowyouknow #historical #historicalcity #historicalplace #beautiful #oldnewyork #architexture #urbanlife #newyorker #brooklynite #lifeofanewyorker (at DUMBO, Brooklyn)

[greatandhidden]

[greatandhidden]

What colors would erupt in our grey-cloud hearts if we threw open the curtains and let the light flood right in? The most vibrant colors come from the most vibrant light.

[greatandhidden]

The sun cozies up in blanket clouds and fades into the graying sky and I’m finally homebound.

[greatandhidden]

Overcast

Today the clouds hang heavy and turn all the colors gray, and the air feels too thick to breathe, and it seems like maybe all the little beautiful things are swallowed up.

And I'm staring out the bus window, (late because overcast heaviness made it hard to just stand this morning) and I see it -- a little bunch of pale yellow flowers growing in the concrete cracks of the median between crumbling asphalt lanes.

When it was fresh poured, the concrete lay thick and gray over the dirt and maybe it seemed as if there were no chance for life anymore at all. 

But it's the clouds that are always shifting and splitting and passing, always passing, and it is the sun that is always steady, always still, always burning, always easing the clouds away from behind.

And today the concrete is crumbling, and today beauty grows from the unseen underneath.