Maid Marion 2008

1/23/08
My friend Tom suggested some time ago that I should take pictures of my bike with every seasonal decoration change (for those of you who don’t know I decorate my bike every season creating a mini mobile public art display), with the goal of perhaps putting together some kind of picture book or scrap book. Without a doubt “Maid Marion” (as I affectionately call my Nottingham born three speed Raleigh bike) is often photographed and perhaps more often complimented (“I love your bike”, “nice bike”). One tour guide in our West Village neighborhood, called it the most photographed bike in the West Village. I have received photos and drawings left on the bike, it has been painted, and the bike has been featured on websites and in an occasional newspaper photo op (often of course with the lovely pug dog Olive in the basket). With the switch from the New Year 2008 decorations to the Valentine’s LOVE BIKE (one of my personal favorites) fast approaching, I thought I should really take a picture of the bike in it’s New Years outfit.
Well low and behold as I was taking my clothes to the laundry place earlier this week, Charles Boyd, a former West Village resident now living in Kentucky asked if he could take a picture of me and my bike, and generously offered to email and mail me a copy of it. So here it is!
Maid Marion in her 2008 regalia and I, courtesy of Charles Boyd.