Mikaela, it is as sunny as you say, and quite warm today, nearly 50 degrees fahrenheit. (Last Friday, though, when Heath was taken away from the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home, it was brilliantly sunny, but it was
so cold that it was nearly impossible to take my hand out of my pocket or glove fast enough to hit the button to take a photograph and then dive in again--it was
brutal !!)
I love Cornflake's posted photo--it's a new one to me, the offerings shown are quite extravagant, and they must have been up for only a few hours before they were removed. Sad! I must visit between 1am and 4am to see the real deal, I suppose!
So: I am making my own photographic Memorial here.
Apropos of nothing (or everything--Meryl likes my circles and circles notion--)
Somehow, I had liked one of the offerings added to the Memorial on Sunday, January 27, simple and flimsy as it was, and sadly, it has now been taken away. The title itself seemed to have a lot of resonance for me:
In Memory of a Fallen Knight
In any case. Many of you know about the newspaper article (with the admittedly awful title)
'In SoHo, Heath Ledger was scruffy loner' and that Heath had often had breakfast in one of the places mentioned,
Grotta Azzurra on the corner of Mulberry and Broome Streets.
Well, while looking at the restaurant, I saw this next image diagonally across Broome, and suddenly I thought, my goodness,
the Fallen Knight:Tympanum (The Fallen)
For more context, I share the added images of this church at 378 Broome Street, between Mulberry and Mott Streets, where Heath lived (and died) three blocks away:
The Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz
Tympanum and Gilded Figure (San Lorenzo Ruiz)
Gilded Figure and Sign
That's it. I'll send more photos soon.
xxx
John
'In SoHo, Heath Ledger was scruffy loner'http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/24/2008-01-24_in_soho_heath_ledger_was_scruffy_loner.htmlGrotta Azzurra
(The Chapel of San Lorenzo Ruiz is at the left in this photograph--Heath would have easily seen it from the restaurant.)
