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• Gardens in the mist

  
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  The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, yesterday. Between the irises, wisteria and Spanish bluebells, it smelled pretty good. Despite the low cloud and precipitation, I did not use the umbrella I was carrying, and arrived home pleasantly damp. I did nibble a wisteria flower (flowers edible, pods toxic). ...
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• “Pop Down” Park May Be London Version the High Line

  
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  Underground mushroom farm and park by Fletcher Priest. Photo: Fletcher Priest. The success of the High Line, an elevated park extending from the Meatpacking District up to 34th Street on Manhattan’s West Side, has begun inspiring similar projects. From Santa … Read More...
  2 weeks ago

• Bark Softly And Carry A Big Stick

  
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  Some of you know of my camera’s recent trip to the shop to have its shutter problems fixed. I am happy to report it came back home yesterday, and appears to be in full working order. I want to thank all the guest photographers who helped me fill the last two weeks with some awesome photos. I still have two or three ...
  2 weeks ago

• To the woods - escape from the city

  
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  Henry Hudson Parkway On Sunday, after dropping Estorbo off on the Upper West Side in preparation for his radioiodine treatment for hyperthyroidism , Vince and I decided to flee the city in our Zipcar. It was a very beautiful spring day.   Saw Mill Parkway Soon, we were in the woods of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Midland’s Summer Dream: 5 Visions For Nottingham’s Forest Recreation Ground

  
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  When you lead a nation in green space, what opportunities do you possess? How do those opprotunities impact small and emerging businesses, and the surrounding communities? At what point do you convert underutilized green space into a sprawling piece of revenue-producing land? In the United Kingdom , Nottingham ...
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• Sunset At Salem’s Riverfront Park

  
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  Guest photographer Keith Curry brings us a lovely sunset on the water at Riverfront Park in nearby Salem. Thanks, Keith!
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• Birdseed Mystery

  
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  Guest photographer John Brandt found these hanging birdseed feeders on the trees along a path at Pioneer Park. He was wondering about them… These things are hanging from most of the trees lining everybody’s favorite walkway in Pioneer Park. My source for bird lore says our birds don’t like the red things in ...
  3 weeks ago

• The New York Botanic Garden in April

  
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  We rode Metro-Norths local Harlem line from Grand Central. The train was packed. The woman sitting beside me chatted, saying she was going back to her old hood, the Bronx. That when she had been a teenager shed gone to the NYBG every day after school, when it had been free. "It was my backyard," she said. Thats ...
  3 weeks ago

• Prospect Park - there are meals in them thar hills...

  
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  I rambled through Prospect Park the other day, after an appointment at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Above, not pictured, but just to my left, a grandfather coached a very small boy in baseball. In Hindi-inflected English he said to the tiny little man, who was not much longer than his baseball bat: You really need to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brooklyn Bridge Park - native blossoms

  
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  Yesterday, late afternoon, in flat white light, I took a stroll down to Pier 6, five minutes from home, on the other side of the moaning and humming BQE. Shorthand for the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, about eight lanes of serious if submerged (its in a trench at this point) traffic.  I intended to be out for ...
  4 weeks ago

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