The event, called SEA Paddle NYC, will draw 130 entrants from as far away as Hawaii to a tiny crescent beach in Manhattan directly under the Brooklyn Bridge.
It's a tiny crescent of sand, tucked between a thicket of reeds and some gently lapping waves, where she and five friends stretched out on blankets one recent sweltering Saturday, savoring their seclusion.
The images that the movie conjures are ones of staggering, crystalline beauty: gasp-inducing landscapes and beautifully wrought closeups, such as the leaves in bulbous freezing mounds, and a tiny crescent moon, all unsentimentally rendered.
Today I boarded a plane in a crowded, small airport in Suva, Fiji to head to the tiny crescent shaped island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific.
You can walk round St Mary's in a day and experience a different scene every half mile or so: tiny crescent-shaped beaches, jagged rocks, high cliffs, a purple heather-covered headland.
People whose eyes are unsuitable for Intacs, tiny crescent-shaped inserts that are implanted in the cornea to flatten the curvature and correct nearsightedness, could also benefit, as could those with eye ailments like astigmatism.
Several suggested Glyfa and Tripiti, two tiny crescents of sand and soft rock on the island's southern tip.
Rare was the suburban garden without those dazzling wings of orange and yellow and black, bordered with a row of tiny crescents of sky blue.
As winter fare, nothing could match the Tuscan osso buco: hearty, tender veal in a luminous sauce made of Chianti, fennel, red onions, carrots, prosciutto and veal jus, served with tiny crescents of crisp polenta.
It comes in a ring of condiments — tiny crescents of briny dried shrimp, nutty fried yellow split peas, toasted sesame and sunflower seeds, peanuts and crispy wafers of garlic — around shreds of little gem lettuce, dewy with an emulsion of sesame oil and lime juice.
The plate of beautiful grapes, the tiny crescents of apples and pears arranged on ice, could be accomplished by anyone with access to an excellent fruit tree, a grape arbor and a bag of ice.
