Sky Turtles
Sunday, June 16th, 2013
At the 6B Garden.
Yucca Flowers in Tompkins Sq. Park
Saturday, June 15th, 2013
These Yucca plants are now in bloom. I thought of them as desert plants but they are doing well here in gardening Zone 6. My Tompkins Sq. Park Tree Identification Project is shifting focus to the gardens. Of course keeping track of everything that is blooming here is beyond me. But I shoot whatever catches my interest, on a near daily basis. Organizing the upwards of 300 photos I may take on a visit is an endless time suck.
These freaky looking central stalks grow out of the spiky perennial fronds. This shot is from a week ago.
This one is from June 6. You can find yuccas in the park at the south-east entrance and the central entrance on 7th Street.
Huge Pink Roses
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
In the Don Roberts Garden in Tompkins Square Park. I know the scale is a bit hard to tell in these photos, but the blooms are about the size of a grapefruit.
Smoke Tree
Sunday, June 9th, 2013
The smokey part of a Smoke Tree.
Monarch in the Park
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
I’m pretty sure of my identification of this as a Monarch Butterfly. In the Don Roberts garden in Tompkins Square Park. These flowers seem to be popular with a wide range of insects.
Monarchs were a pretty common butterfly when I was a kid, but this might be the first one I’ve spotted in NYC in several years.
Update, 6 8 13:
Same location, several more Monarchs.
Weight
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Must be a student engineer’s project at Cooper Union. I was tempted to swing it, but didn’t.
Pollinators in the Park
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
The pollinators were out in the afternoon sun in the Don Roberts Garden in Tompkins Sq. Park. This looks like a bee, not a honeybee though I did see a few out there as well.
A bumblebee.
And a butterfly.
They Don’t Know What They Do
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
A performance on the main stage at the Howl Festival 2013 in Tompkins Square Park, NYC, combinced with some of the art pieces from Art Around the Park.
Art Around the Park 2013
Sunday, June 2nd, 2013
I took my tree map public today at Art Around the Park, at the Howl Festival in Tompkins Square Park. I was torn between talking to people about the map and trees, and painting. Then the afternoon sun hit and I melted. I was surrounded by folks putting 100% of themselves to their canvas. Devote full energy to painting in the shaded Sunday morning, is my plan.
My neighbor to my right had the remarkable ability to draw with both hands simultaneously. I look forward to watching him paint again tomorrow.
In celebration of his recent engagement, lovebirds.
I didn’t get to see much of what was going on inside the park today.
