September Sightseeing

Miss Hatcher, Demi and Mischa Barton: three hollywood femme-fatales popped in to watch skinny models saunter down the catwalk. It's Fashion Week in NYC and my friend Angela is assisting models, celebrities and over-priced designers through the maze of couture lineups. Angela's been working backstage at the "The Tent" in Bryant park all week but broke briefly to dine at Ginger (a fabulously affordable Thai/Chinese restaurant on 7th ave) with Mutti and me. She, bedecked in a curvy Donna Karan top and sporting a vintage-style Jimmy-Choo handbag is expected to dress to impress even while working backstage. It's not how I usually see Angela, true to her upstate roots in faded jeans and an everyday t-shirt, but during Fashion Week everybody's inner child plays 'dress-up'.

Mutti's family from Deutschland are in town for 3 weeks and pending any big obligations to production assignments I'll be showcasing creative outdoor adventures in New York State, Massachussetts and Vermont. The Gunks, short for Shawangunks, is a perilous place for brave rock climbers but it's first on our list followed by the Thatcher Park escarpment and then a little history at the Capital in downtown Albany. Stay fixed on this blog for a 3-week whirlwind tour.