Folks, I'm a stalker...

I totally stalked this couple. But look at them, how could I not? We went all the way down to the MET Saturday but it was too nice a day to be stuck inside a museum. Instead, we walked down through the park to find a grassy noll in the shade (no need for sun when you live in it all year long). I was excited because I could sit and take pictures and Mike could draw and maybe I could write.

It was the perfect day. Really. I mean, not a cloud in the sky, the wind blowing through the trees just so, people's voices carrying over to us in the breeze. They were lying on a blanket under a tree. They looked like people I would like to know. So I took out the camera. Mind you, I used a 300 mm zoom lens that looks like a telescope with a shutter that sounds like a rifle. Not very inconspicuous.

My sister, Yani, has a good take on it. She said, "Those people definitely noticed... I mean, how can they not? I bet even if they couldn't 'see' you taking pics of them, they could 'feel' you creeping around....it's very National Geographic."

I wanted to go up to them and ask for their email so that I could send them the pictures but it would have just confirmed my creepiness. I think they finally noticed when I was taking pictures of a puppy that was rolling around in the grass. I caught them looking at me then at the camera.

Oh, well. Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. All in the sake of art, right?