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.

Iceland

There are waterfalls all over Iceland, even right by the snow.

These are from the Gullfoss waterfalls.

I think they look prettier from a distance,

but seeing evidence of water moving right next to icicles is neat.

A smaller waterfall.

From the Hraunfossar Barnafossar park in West Iceland.

The zoom feature on my camera can give it a different perspective.

Wallpaper for your computer, perhaps?

Just to give you another sense of perspective.

Frozen faces on one side, and volcanic ash on the other.

The snow doesn't kill the trees.

What should you do if you get lost in a forest in Iceland?
Stand up.

From the geysir park,

Steam rises from geysers, which warms up some of the ice.

The surf in Iceland looks like this.

The obligatory wedding pictures.

It's not what it looks like.

There are poems in these pictures.

Surf?  Or Icewall?

Sometimes one side of the street get the snow, and the other does not.

Some water turns into rivers, which runs out to the ocean.

Iceland has plains,

but it also has volcanoes.

The Langjokell Glacier resembles a scallop in color, I think.

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Here's our tour guide explaining that the different colors of the ice indicate the age of the ice.

A bar table in the iceberg,

where you might look down the ice corridor.

There are crevices in the ice.

Pictures from the side of the road,

which I think would make lovely wallpaper for me.

I love nature's geometry.

I caught a picture of a rainbow!!!

I hope the other photographers did, too.

The light often looks different.

It's dark for most of the day in Iceland in winter, but they still need to grow food.  This is why they have greenhouses with greenhouse tomatoes.

A bee trying to get back home.

They raise horses in Iceland.

I'm a New Yorker;  I travel and take pictures of other people's homes.

Reykjavik is on a peninsula;  you can see glaciers from other parts of Iceland in the center of town.

A bookstore's cat.

A beer cozy glove!

I had a great time and I will go back.  I never got to try an Icelandic hot dog!