OK – so this image is misleading. My photo app tells me this is from last year when – on this date – our stroll took us to the beach at Towd Point in Southampton. But all the rest are either the immediate neighborhood or Wave Hill in the Bronx.
The community garden at W.91st Street in Riverside Park is maintained by the volunteers known as The Garden People. It’s an ever-evolving all-season delight to the senses.
Two glimpses of the Hudson from Wave Hill
Flower pots
A swallowtail
Hot peppers
And a glorious water feature
Meanwhile, back on the street, Columbia is building a dorm across from where – in 1933 – the 17th descendant of Count Vasco da Gama shot Lord von Dick, a pedigree chow, in the lobby. But that’s another story.
At midday, women arrive with big ice chests full of lunch and cold drinks to sell to the construction workers. They park themselves on the sidewalk and do a good trade. On the right is an orange NYC compost bin that has unfortunately attracted the usual graffiti and sticker menaces. The City does a good job emptying it. Behind that, the electronic display promotes green beans.
Then there’s the fresh produce at the farmers’ Market on Boadway
Because it’s hard to resist excess images
The featured image decorates a building on Riverside Drive and 97th Street.
Ha. I thought you’d gone to Mexico! The gardens are beautiful. I didn’t know about the compost bins in NYC. What a great idea. I am now going to look up Vasco da Gama and lord von Dick!
Since learning of the story of the death of Lord von Dick (purchased for an extraordinary sum of $500) I did a dive into the available information beyond the 1933 NYTimes accounts. I even found a newsreel of Da Gama boasting about his killing of the dog. It’s quite the story and he is quite the classic aristocratic colonial villain.
That’s a great building with many wonderful guardians.
And yes, the 91st street garden is a treasure.
I’m envious you spotted a swallowtail! (K)
We tread common turf!
Delightful A welcome break from the gales and hail we are having here. Still don’t they say ‘Spring comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb’ I’m hoping
I read about the storms in Melbourne. Sounded wild.
April September showers bring May October flowers.
loved shots of Nereen….what a beauty! Cac
A visual ‘feast’ 🙂
Thank-you.
I can feel the heat and hear the sounds of NYC…a city in a grand setting with also quiet places to sit and enjoy the flowers. And the produce. So very different to London.
Just for some contrast: They are also doing work on the building and it is surrounded by scaffolding sheds, the street is all roughed up in preparation for repaving at some unknown date, and there was a bit fat rat in the park yesterday. But there still is honey for tea.
Is there honey still for tea…oh to be in Grantchester in the tea room in a deck chair watching a river glide by…with or without raincoat (rainmate). Preferably sans rats…but hey they are all part of the life ecosystem…preferably out of doors. Though at home cats would bring in as a present..once found one under my bed. Life has its ups and downs.
Swings and roundabouts, eh!? Yer pays yer money…etc.
Beautiful pictures. The butterfly looks huge compared to the ones we have here in the UK. I’m assuming it’s landed on a buddleia.
Thanks. Yes, a buddleia. Lots of bees on the thistles too.
Love the pix of plants !
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Thank-you. I always take way too many and then I can’t decide which ones to use.