An aborted tour of a different park

The weather threatened rain
and our windows were still open.
We feared the water teasing
and rushed to seal our windows.
The flowers were so pretty,
and the brook had promised much
but I knew all would stay there

and the rain would worry us.

Here are some pictures from a walk in the Brooklyn Bridge Park.  There will be more later, on some other day.

Is this a boa, a fungus, or a spiders' web?

The dancer's partner?

The dancers are held up
stuck in their tombs;
the graveyards have been shaking
the coffins cause a boom!
People want to party
and the cause is hardly lost
for all we know have had the shot
the virus lost its ghost.

Do you think that the shakers
were reincarnated into trees?
To ensure their passion continued
with possibilities
of turning themselves into tables?
Or letting themselves become chairs?
Don't we think that that would be fitting
if reincarnation was what we believed?

Caught in the act

 Someone was dancing!

but the cops were in town.
"People trying to sleep!
Keep the music down!"

But she kept on dancing way into the night
Not knowing that Kerick kept witches in sight.
The woman danced for no one
her rhythm unbound
but the witches were tired
and had spells they'd found.
A "fear the noise" this
and a "scare off the kids"
and the woman was stuck
with a bark and no kiss.

She's stuck in the park
for eternity now,
dancing for no one.
No music's allowed.

I've just got this one point....

 There's no fence around these roots anymore.  I don't know how long the fence has been gone.

This isn't a metaphor for something....or perhaps it is.

This is somewhere in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

More trees and flowers, or Wallpaper for your computer

 It's a beautiful day in May and I am determined to explore Prospect Park.  They're renovating it right now, but that just means I have to use a different entrance than I usually do, and that is encouraging me to explore the park.

This tree is welcoming you to Prospect Park at the Grand Army Plaza Entrance,

but I think these trees, along the Flatbush Avenue side of the park, are thinking about charging.

I don't know if this spring is different because of the storms we had earlier in the spring, but I've never noticed these many trees downed in the park before.

I'm not sure if this is a totem to something or a yarn bombing.

I swear I saw these wooden sculptures elsewhere in the Park last year,

but I also think they're too big to move, so there are TWO inverted tree stumps that looks like someone walking in the park?  There are three stories there, and I'm not sure which one to write.

Perhaps this bird knows what's going on.

More possible wallpaper options.

There's a face in this beheaded tree.

I think this is a marsh.

I think this is sculpture.

Has the Parks Department found a new way to get rid of the bodies?

Here's the chair, if you need to sit and think about it.

There's an awful lot of firewood around Prospect Park right now.  

I think some firewood is trying to get friendly with the tree.

I want to take a picture of how beautifully the trees line and frame the streets of Brooklyn.  I walked down to Washington Avenue, which is closed to traffic so people can get out but still remain "socially distant," but you know what got in my way!

Back to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden

I took pictures at the Berkshire Botanic Garden, and now I have more pictures from Brooklyn.

The Japanese Peonies are beautiful and I don't remember seeing them before.

These flowers are along the path circling the Japanese pond.

Does this tree need a rest?

 

If you've been watching this blog, you know I'm fascinated by roots.

This is another preacher tree.

I started looking at the shade trees today.

 

 

 

I think this tree has something...what are your thoughts?

 

 

Do you prefer bluebells or bluets?

Colors reminded me of fall more than spring.

I think this duck needs an agent.

This one is picking out lunch.

 

These are the goth flowers.

 

The ghost of springs past, or perhaps the promise of spring's future.

Trees on the Monument Mountain Hike

 We kept passing the start of the Monument Mountain hike in Great Barrington and on our last day I decided we should try hiking it.

Someone had been through moving trees around, or the giants were having some trouble with a toddler in the recent past.

I think the tree is encouraging its roots to gather stones.
Or is it reaching out to trip hikers?

 

 

Trees waiting to be planted,

and trees offering help and advice to
those who will listen.