By Vladimir Brezina
Sure, there are the sunlit showy blossoms that everyone stops to admire—
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But deeper in the shadows, too, if you look closely, Spring is everywhere stirring to life.
And what’s this?
A A A scrap of bread stirs to life the pond’s inhabitants, both expected…
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… and unexpected
More photos are here.
... kayaked the waters around New York for more than 15 years in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He was originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He was a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He died in 2016.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
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Wind Against Current 
I just love spring time!! These are such beautiful captues, thanks for sharing.
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You are most welcome, thank you!!
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Vlad, Your spring is way ahead of ours!
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Yes, spring here came very early this year. And NYC is almost Southern in that once the little green leaves begin to sprout, things go very fast—in a week the park is lush. We are almost at that stage now—in a week or two, vegetation-wise, it will be summer.
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Fantastic pictures!
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Thanks, Pit!!
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Central Park? Didn’t realize there was so much wild life – turtles especially. Grand photos – thank you!
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Central Park is big enough to have some significant wildlife—lots of resident as well as migratory birds, many resident raccoons of course, the occasional coyote… And there is a large “Turtle Pond” :-)
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wonderful photos, but the turtle ones are my fav!
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The turtles were putting on quite a show under a little pier built out over the Turtle Pond :-)
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Love the cherry tree. I’ve got one outside my back door and I hope the wind dies down by the time it’s in full bloom, otherwise it’s a here today, gone tomorrow experience.
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Gone already here (these pictures are from some days ago)…
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“Baby” ferns-all curled up are one of my favorite things to photograph. To me, they are the epitome of spring!
Beautiful pictures!
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And so good to eat! :-)
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Yes. We just learned that you can eat them this year! I had no idea. :) I am not sure that I could pick them to eat though. I really love watching them unfurl! LOL!
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Lots of tasty fiddlehead recipes on the Internet! :-)
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Great photos announcing spring’s arrival, but I really like the dragonfly and the fern. :-)
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The dragonfly was quite a surprise. Quite a large one, about 4″ long. I only spotted it because I saw it in flight, moments before it settled down on the tree trunk where it was well camouflaged. It remained there immobile for at least an hour—I walked around taking other pictures, and when I came back that way afterward it was still there.
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Nice galleries!
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Thanks!!
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I love turtles. Can’t imagine eating them. They are so zen.
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And it’s turtles all the way down…
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Wonderful dragonfly, brightens my day which was desperately needed. A darner for sure, possibly a swamp darner.
Description: Huge.
The size makes it almost unmistakable, but just in case, the blue eyes, prominent green thoracic stripes and brown abdomen ringed in green should remove all doubt.
http://www.njodes.com/Speciesaccts/darners/darn-swam.asp
We’re stuck in gray, rainy doldrums. Thanks for the cheer!
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Yes, it looks very much like a swamp darner. And it was huge! I was really surprised to see such a huge insect so early in the year. Thanks for the identification, Michael!
Same here—gray, rainy all week, by the looks of it.
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You are at least two weeks ahead of us on the seasons this year, probably because we are having a very cold monsoon season. Usually, sometime in April, all the turtles would be out sunning themselves in the river. Maybe they did, assuming we had any sun!
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By now (May 14) you’ve probably caught up… :-)
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Love it, Vlad, dragonflies are endlessly fascinating to me, their colours are extraordinary. xxx
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Such exotic-looking creatures in the gray city! :-)
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Awesome photos! Love to see what lies beneath!
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:-) Thanks, Terri!
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I love dragonflies.
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Fab photos of the turtles Vlad! Hope all’s well with you and Johna.
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Thank you, Madhu! I haven’t been doing as much paddling as I would like due to recent surgery, but otherwise we are hanging in there…
And we’ve been following your inspiring travels all over the globe :-)
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