Category: NYC


  • Central Park’s English Garden

    The Central Park Conservancy has been working on the restoration of the Conservatory Garden, which means portions of it are closed as the work progresses. For a long while I was not able to visit my favorite garden, the English Garden, but that section is now reopened to the public. At the end of September…

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  • The Great Elephant Migration Art Installation

    The Great Elephant Migration is an art installation consisting of 100 life-sized Indian elephant sculptures traveling the United States. The sculptures were made out of an invasive plant called Lantana camara by 200 indigenous artisans living in India’s Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. It was recently located in NYC’s Meatpacking District. Read more about the exhibition and…

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  • Scenes from Rockaway Beach

    My first trip to the beach this year involved lots of sun, a refreshing breeze, and water too cold for me to get into. I enjoyed watching others enjoy the water though. Rockaway Beach, 6 June 2021. Far Rockaway (New York), USA.

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  • 2020 New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show

    2020 New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show

    The last week of the annual holiday train show we visited in the middle of a weekday. The show was all but empty, so we were able to browse as slowly as we wanted without dealing with crowds. My partner loves model trains, so this was a fun activity to do together.

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  • It’s All I Have to Give

    America’s political landscape is a burning trash fire. All I can do is continue to bring beauty to the world as a salve for as long as I am able to do so.

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