Astor Construction Pano
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Stuck my camera through a door that was left open on the fence around the construction on Astor Place this past Saturday.
Dance Parade 2012
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Part 1 of the parade, mostly traditional styles.
Cheerleaders, zombies, Green Bus, Occupy Wall Street, and Trance in part 2.
Figure Skating in Tompkins Sq
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
Ice skating on plastic cutting boards lubricated with glycerin, later today for the Dance Parade.
Roses and Bootblacks
Saturday, May 19th, 2012
These amazing roses are in full bloom in Tompkins Square Park. Go see them before they fade. In the background is the former Newsboys’ and Bootblacks’ Lodging House.
St. Brigid’s Unveiled
Friday, May 18th, 2012
EV Grieve has some details.
I poked my camera through the shed door to get this pano of the doors.
Cute Fox
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Stencil fox street art.
East Village Panoramas
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Avenue A between 12th and 13th Streets.
East 9th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
Red Admiral and Tree Map
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
This past Sunday I was in Tompkins Square Park trying to finalize the tree and lamp post positions on my map of the park. The Red Admiral butterflies migrating through the city at the moment seemed attracted to the colors. I took that as a good sign.
My Tompkins Square Park Tree Identification Project is steadily progressing, though the process is slow as I alone am the project. My latest work in getting the map right is to print out the latest version and take it out to the park to verify that it makes sense from various locations. That is, sitting on benches in this lovely spring weather and drawing corrections on the map until it does makes sense.
Though I haven’t put much up on the blog, I’ve been taking terabytes of photos of the trees this Spring, gathering panoramas around the park as well as grabbing details of the buds, flowers and leaves as they appear on individual trees. Keeping track of what is flowering when, has really helped in my quest to identify all the trees in the park, but you should understand that I was coming from almost total ignorance in tree identification when I started this project last Summer. So at the moment I’m more confident of where the trees are than what species they are. I will probably have a version of the map that I’m willing to put online soon.
