And then Biden Won!!!

 Pictures from what was supposed to be a Count Every Vote Rally, but turned into a a celebration.

Election Day in Brooklyn, 2020

 People waiting on a socially distanced line at City MD.

A police presence at Barclays Center, probably preparing for unrest.

I haven't been paying attention, have the Men's Warehouse and Victoria's Secret stores been boarded up long?

I'm pretty sure the Apple Store's cage is new, though.

Macy's is boarding its windows, but so are other stores on Fulton Street.

Pictures from the Botanic Garden

 The Japanese pond with a rose and a fish.

The cool space under the dock.

Proof that all creatures adapt to live, even trees.

Is this bush trying to get away?

I think this tree might want to go for a run with me, except it's too tall.

 

The wind took away a limb, but that looked like it was over a story high.

The Jumping Rope Rhyme

Current Events: A Jump Rope Rhyme

Little Orange President sitting on a fence
Tryin' to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
He missed! He missed! But he banked with Deutsche!

 I think I told some people they could find my work here, but this is where I put photographs.  If you came looking for poetry and written words, please go to my other blog itsthebookblog.blogspot.com/

The current events poem is here.

Prospect Park, August 2020

 We had a pretty bad windstorm a few weeks ago, and Prospect Park still looks pretty beaten up.

I'm kind of wondering when all of the debris will be disposed of, but I suppose asking such questions in the middle of a pandemic and while the city is suffering some fiscal difficulties is asking too much.

Those are two different trees that need to be removed,

limbs by the lake,

and woodchips!

Random pieces of tree!

I went running this morning and had seen huge piles of busted up trees.  I thought to myself, "I should take some pictures of those before the City picks them up."  I just barely made it.

On the other hand, I don't know when they're going to come pick these up.

I suspect this tree stump is from before the recent storm, but it looks cool.

I think this tree looks cool, too.

Or does the bike rider make the tree look more mysterious?

Brooklyn Botanic Garden Summer, 2020

It's been eleven years since I've posted pictures from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Rose Garden.

 

 I predict this rose bush, The Queen of Musks, will grow around the cord marking where the bush and pathway are.  Roses do not care for boundaries.

The Athena Rose,

a close up,

or an excuse to remember the Portland Protester.

 

I don't know what this is.  It looks like it might be berries growing, but I've never seen berries grow on something that looks so plastic.

The trees got a pretty bad beating during the storm last week.

 

Random flowers

A picture of a Resurrection lily.

 

 

A little local history in the renovated part of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Pumpkins growing in the back of the garden.