Brit in Brooklyn Subscribers: Come See the New Home!

We disappeared again on the new site but we really are up and running again now. For those of you who have us in your RSS Feed readers you may want to update your settings. The blog has officially moved so here's the new feed: http://britinbrooklyn.squarespace.com/britinbrooklyn_photo_blog/rss.xml or click this: We've decided to move away from Blogger for now. We don't like the idea that the blog can be frozen or turned off indefinitely at any moment by a pumped-up google spider spam robot thing. You can always get to our latest home with www.britinbrooklyn.com The new place is better equipped and we even managed to move the old archive across. See you over there!

Red Hook Food Vendors Celebrate

A unique exhibition of photographs taken by the vendors will be on display at the Red Hook site this weekend. It's to celebrate the extension of their permits to October 21st. There will also be music, more footy and of course food. Thanks for the tip Erin.

Desktop Day Double: Ikea, Red Hook and Grand Army Plaza

The Ikea site in Red Hook , and an eagle in Grand Army Plaza are presented here this week, sized to fit your computer desktop. Instructions Left-click on the image first to open up the large version. Windows PC: Right-click on the large image and select 'set as desktop background'. You can also right-click and 'save as', then use your desktop properties settings to add the file you just saved and format it how you prefer. There's more info on customising your PC desktop here.

Mac: Macintosh instructions can be found here.

Verona Street, Red Hook

Directions from the Atlantic Center here.

English Midsummer Poem, c1250

Svmer is icumen in Lhude sing cuccu! Groweþ sed and bloweþ med and springþ þe wde nu. Sing cuccu! Awe bleteþ after lomb, lhouþ after calue cu, Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ. Murie sing cuccu! Cuccu, cuccu, Wel singes þu cuccu. ne swik þu nauer nu! Sing cuccu nu, Sing cuccu! -- Here is the modern translation. Summer has come in Loudly sing, cuckoo! Seeds grow and meadows bloom and the woods spring anew Sing cuckoo! Ewe bleats after lamb, Calf lows after cow, Bullock leaps, billygoat farts, Merrily sing, cuckoo! Cuckoo, cuckoo! Well you sing cuckoo, Nor cease you ever now! Sing cuckoo now, Sing, cuckoo!

Meanwhile, back in Red Hook

Some sizeable structures have vanished since our last visit: Revere Sugar Factory Dome Sunken Lightship

The Horror at Red Hook

"Visible offences are as varied as the local dialects, and run the gamut from the smuggling of rum and prohibited aliens through diverse stages of lawlessness and obscure vice to murder and mutilation in their most abhorrent guises." --From "The Horror at Red Hook" by H. P. Lovecraft.