Spring Fever

I don't consider my self an outdoorsy person, but every year when it begins to get warm again and the sun starts to stay up till after dinner, I get this intense desire to sit in the sun or go on long walks. Unfortunately this is also the time when I have to most work to do. So I find myself ditching my homework to walk along the still desolate boardwalk at Coney Island or climb the hill to the Cloisters. This afternoon rather than take the subway home, I decided to walk across the Williamsburg Bridge and watch the sunset.



I've always like Edward Hopper's aptly titled, From the Williamsburg Bridge. I thought it perfectly captures that desire to be outside, to get out of the dark.
I took this picture from the Manhattan ramp of the bridge. It's unlikely that these are the buildings in the painting, as many of the buildings along Delancey Street have been knocked down and replaced with projects or even that Hopper painted the exact streetscape, but I think they come remarkably close.