Tag Archives: parks & gardens

Red Tail Hawk Eats Squirrel in Central Park

Posted on March 12, 2023 by zjb

Not for the squeamish, these are closeup photos of a red tail eating a squirrel that M. and M. and I came across on a walk behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We stuck around for almost an hour. The … Continue reading →

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(Pile) Autumn (Bridge)

Posted on October 31, 2022 by zjb

This bridge pile supports a part of the overpass of the West Side Highway. It pile blocks, and frames the tree in the park (Riverside Park South) that now surrounds it.

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(Simulacrum) Autumn (New York City)

Posted on October 30, 2022 by zjb

(Waterline Square Park)

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(Upside Down) Morningside Park (Coronavirus)

Posted on July 16, 2020 by zjb
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Green Light (Riverside Park)

Posted on June 11, 2019 by zjb

In Riverside Park on the walk-path under the Olmstead Wall, which framed the intense green light shooting down the length of a single tree branch on a bright spring day

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(Democracy) Little Forest and Garden Parks (Harlem)

Posted on June 26, 2018 by zjb

The neighbors who tend this little park in Harlem turned it into a forest. A white gravel path takes you into the cool, dark shade. There are cats here at the Joseph Daniel Wilson Gardens at W. 122 Street between … Continue reading →

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Harlem Green Space (New West 123rd Street Block Association Garden)

Posted on June 11, 2018 by zjb

Harlem is full of community gardens that humanize the urban landscape and preserve it from developers. This one, the New West 123rd Street Block Association Garden, has a particularly lush layout with generous places to sit, places to plant, and … Continue reading →

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Dancing Trees (Central Park)

Posted on May 18, 2017 by zjb

Viewed from a distance the trees just stand there, not doing much. But a close zoom into and between the branches  allows you to see these stately creatures in Central Park undulating. Carefully cultivated by masters of arboreal arts, these … Continue reading →

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Literary Walk (Central Park)

Posted on May 16, 2017 by zjb

Those would be Sir Walter Scot, Robert Burns, and Fitz Greene Hallek. I’ve never paid them much mind. But I got caught in the view of the trees and had some time to kill on my way towards an appointment … Continue reading →

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What Poetic about the Poets’ Walk (Bard College)

Posted on May 14, 2017 by zjb

Up early for a Talmud and culture conference at Bard College a couple of weeks back on a drippy spring day, I pulled in to park at the nearby Poet’s Walk. It seemed like the right thing to do. The … Continue reading →

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