NYC Gnomes

Last weekend my husband and I returned to NYC for a visit. It's been a bit less than a year since we moved from there to Chicago, and we couldn't have picked a better weekend to see friends and enjoy the city. 

On Monday I found myself with four spare gnomes and a few spare hours in the city, so I decided to revisit four places that are meaningful to me and set a gnome free at each spot. I may no longer live there, but there’s no reason why a few of my gnomes can’t be New Yorkers!

Gnome #1 started his NYC adventure in Columbus Circle, which was my main hub when we lived in midtown Manhattan.

Other gnomes were set free on the High Line (which represents everything cool and beautiful and ambitious about NYC), in Prospect Park (which I visited almost every day during the four years that I lived in Brooklyn), and on Elizabeth Street (where I got my first job out of college). 

I liked the idea of leaving these guys around the city for anyone to stumble upon and take home. I didn’t attach any kind of tags to the gnomes—I wanted the people who found them to just enjoy the discovery and the mystery. (I did share each of these photos on Instagram and Twitter in real time as I left each gnome behind.) 

A part of me will probably always miss living in NYC, but it’s neat to think that the city and I will continue to have a connection via my little bearded ambassadors of Mochimochi Land.