Weekend Reflections

I look forward to this every year:
For about a week before Thanksgiving, 
all the trees across from my
office get wrapped with thousands
of little white lights.
And when I leave work in the dark the
next Monday, they're all lit up.

[To see more Weekend Reflections,
visit James's meme.]

Still hangin' on

Took a stroll through the local botanic
garden the other day.  I don't
know why this little tree still has all
its leaves, but isn't it pretty?

[To see more Monday Mellow Yellow posts, go here.]

The Weekend in Black and White

This was the view from my bedroom window one
morning recently.  You'd hardly know you
were in the most populous of NYC's five boroughs,
would you?  (At last count, there are some
2.6 million of us here in Brooklyn.)

[To see more b/w pics, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Thursday Challenge—"trees"

This photo of a banyan tree—in St. Petersburg—is
a nice souvenir of my New Year's trip to Florida.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, visit Dale's meme.]

Roman Spring

Along the Tiber, Rome 2003—taken on
the (infamous) day we invaded Iraq.
This was the last trip I took to Italy
before I switched exclusively to digital.
Have to say, I still like the look of the photos 
I shot with my old manual SLR camera.

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

The Weekend in Black and White

Took a walk one bitter cold morning recently on the
land of friends I was visiting down in Virginia.
It was beautiful, but I'm a city girl and have a hard
time wrapping my head around the idea of
measuring property in acres rather than square feet.

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Weekend Reflections

I recently traveled from Virginia to NYC on
the train (where business class is actually
affordable and you don't have to remove your
shoes before you board).  I found this somber
winter reflection just outside Washington, D.C.

[To see more Weekend Reflections, visit James's meme.]

The Weekend in Black and White

We're having a little heat wave here in NYC,
and I really don't like air-conditioning—so
I'm doing my best to stay in the shade!

[To see more monochromes, visit Dragonstar's meme.]

Thursday Challenge—"trees"

I like to experiment with shooting
directly into the sun.  If I still used film, I would
have wasted plenty of it with this little
exercise—but sometimes (especially if you get up
very early, before the fog burns off) it works.

[To see more of the Thursday Photo Challenge, go here.]

ABC Wednesday—Q is for "question"

It's true!  Trees do so much for us,
and, really, what do we do for them?
After I saw this sign in the little town of
Mindo, in Ecuador, I felt a bit guilty.  ¿Y tu?

[To see more ABC Wednesday posts, go here.]

Ruby Tuesday

Toward the end of this day in my Park Slope,
Brooklyn neighborhood, the trees on Carroll Street
were all mostly red and even the brownstones
were tinged with pink from the setting sun.

[To see more Ruby Tuesday pics, go here.]

ABC Wednesday—C is for "carved"

 

And all the egocentric people who just had to
cut their name into this crooked tree.  I have 
an old school desk that looks just like it.

[To see more ABC posts, go here.
And I've posted on my Paris blog, here.]

Shadow Shot Sunday

These look exactly like the 7-foot feather tree
that I used to have in my office (back before
we all "graduated" from an office to a
cubicle).  Interesting, but if you were looking
for a bit of shade on this hot, hot day . . .

[To see more Shadow Shots, go  here.]

Shadow Shot Sunday

My brother and sister-in-law have a
friendly, comfy house on the North Fork of
Long Island. I love to get out of the city and
spend a weekend out there—where I can commune
with the neighbor's wonderful old tree.


[To see more Shadow Shots,  go here.]

Trees

Credit for this goes to my daughter Lila,
who took the picture somewhere in Paris.
(For some reason, it makes me think of Baudelaire.)
[To see more trees, go to tnchick's meme].

Thursday Challenge — "trees"

These trees are also in Prospect Park (see yesterday's post)
—the local dog owners and their pups had a blast here the 
morning after our last (and I hope it was) big snowstorm. 
(Click to enlarge to get the full effect.)  
[You can see more trees here at the Thursday Photo Challenge.]

another Brooklyn tree . . .

. . . and all my favorites seem to grow in the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. This one is in the
BBG's Japanese garden, a lovely, peaceful
oasis at any time of year— but most especially
in the fall and winter, when visitors are scarcer.

[This post is part of That's My World Tuesday;
see more here.]

of all the trees . . .

. . . that grow in Brooklyn, this particular weeping beech 

is my absolute fave. In fact, I've shown it to you before.