By Vladimir Brezina
Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post theme for this week, Favorite Spot, and the Weekly Photo Challenge theme, Mine, come together in this post…
On Sunday, Johna and I visited one of our favorite spots, New York City’s Central Park.
The trees are still mostly green, and late flowers are in bloom. But subtle signs of fall are everywhere.
We saw a late monarch butterfly, flitting from flower to flower.
Wandering through the park, we made our way, as we usually do, to our really special spot—the plot of ground that some time ago we picked out as the place where we could learn to observe and to see. And indeed, we saw there…
… a belated dandelion
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… somebody’s eggs
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… a strawberry?!
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It sure looked like a strawberry—a last lone strawberry at the cusp of fall.
We thought of how sweet ripe wild strawberries can be… And so, despite some contraindications —the strawberry plants bore, here and there, yellow, rather than white, flowers—Johna ate the strawberry.
It had very little taste. It wasn’t a true strawberry, but (as we determined afterward) a mock strawberry.
Still, it was a lovely early fall day at our special spot in the park…
Vladimir Brezina (RIP) 
Johna Till Johnson
Wind Against Current 
Vladimir, excellent photos, beautiful imagery and color. Just loved the shots.
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Glad you liked them! Thanks very much!
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Great capture of color, I really appreciate bold colors against one another. When done well, the color is the subject all on it’s own. Nice shots!!
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Thank you!!
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Great post, thanks MJ
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Thanks, MJ!
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Beautiful photography! So crisp!
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Getting things crisp was actually not easy—it was a windy day and all the vegetation was shaking and moving about…
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Excellent post mmy fr4iend for this week theme ,Thanks for sharing your stunning photography :)
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Thank you, Jake!
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👏 so beautiful!
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:-) Thank you! (Love the 👏!)
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Lovely post!!
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Thanks!!
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Beautiful butterfly!
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Monarchs really are…
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Oh Vladimir!!! So nice pics…And the first serie is so delicate!! …And the eggs….
Lovely!!!
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The eggs were quite a surprise… :-)
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Such magical photos, Vlad, especially the butterfly. :)
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So glad you liked them! :-)
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Wonderfull post Vladi and always gorgeous shots !
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Thank you so much! :-)
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Breathtaking! The monarchs are indeed glorious butterflies!
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They are! We are fortunate that they are quite common around NYC, at certain times of the year at least.
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Lovely photos! I especially enjoyed the butterflies.
Blessings ~ Wendy
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Thanks for visiting and commenting, Wendy!
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Beautiful photography and for the life of me I don’t know how you get photos of butterflies! I’ve seen others do it but they are way too fast for me. Great job!
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Taking a picture of a flying butterfly would be hard, I agree, as they flutter about so unpredictably. But in all these photos the butterfly was attached to a flower sucking nectar out of it—then they are still for quite a long time. Of course, you need a telephoto lens…
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Too beautiful, esp. the butterflies!!
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Thanks, Amy!!
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Wonderful post. That monarch looks freshly hatched – the colors aren’t faded at all, as they sometimes are in older individuals. I always saw lots of monarchs in late Sept & early Oct around the city, sometimes I would see them traveling down Fifth Avenue, right on the migratory path, to parts south. The eggs are very cool. I know those strawberries, too – disappointing to taste but pretty to see. And the leaf caught in the flower – love it!
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Just a few of the sights of fall in the park… :-)
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Gosh … New York’s Central park never looed so good. OMG .. Johna can come and play in my strawberry patch. No – No – No on eating those strawberries. Well … unless your adventurous which you both seem to be.
I wish I wasn’t a scaredy cat. ~~~~ ; – 0
Toodles,
Isadora
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Yes, we’ll try anything, once ;-)
Thanks, Isadora!
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Great series of photos.
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Thanks, Naomi!
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I made your 100th liker – the single leaf epitomises fall to a tee. Beautiful with the butterflies and the lovely lady picking the strawberry :)
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You get the prize, Laura! :-)
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Some lovely shots and a very nice post!
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Thanks so much!
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The photos are crisp and beautiful. I love Central Park too.
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At its best at this time of the year…
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You are a true nature lover, appreciating every little thing.
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The closer you look, the more you see!
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I was dumbfounded with those pictures with the mirthful-winged creatures! Candid shots, very picturesque! :D
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Thank you so much! :-) :-)
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Amazing photos of the butterfly, Vlad, and how very brave of Johna to eat the mock strawberry, I would have been too chicken!
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Surely the city wouldn’t allow anything poisonous to grow in its park! ;-)
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Hey Vlad, I really love this series of photos…when I visited Central Park I was so distracted by the roller disco that all this just passed me by :) The top two are my favourite and seem to suggest at Autumn’s transition to winter…lovely!
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Fortunately, we are still in the transition from summer to autumn :-)
Central Park has in it many things… you’ll just have to come back!
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Wow! Amazing pics. Love the butterflies… :)
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Thanks, Tammy!
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