By Johna Till Johnson
A sweltering Sunday evening calls for a walk in the park…
Central Park silhouette
After a brief cloudburst, the sun emerges from the clouds, lighting up the flowers…
Flower
And setting the raindrops on the leaves to sparkling…
Raindrops and flowers
The skies darken..
Twilight
The lights come on, reminding me of an iconic children’s story…
Narnia in summertime…
… And the last of the light catches the retreating thunderheads.
Clouds
Posted in Life, Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, Clouds, Flower, New York City
By Johna Till Johnson
Photo by Vladimir Brezina
Squirrel clings… with an expectant look!
Vlad and I have always been fascinated by squirrels: The acrobatic way they catapault through the leaves. How quickly they can scamper up trees. The brazen way they beg for food (at least in Central Park). And most of all, the way they’re able to cling like Velcro to the trees….
In response to the daily prompt, “Cling”.
Posted in Culture, Life, Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, New York City, Squirrel
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.
Posted in Nature
Tagged Animals, Central Park, Dragonfly, Fern, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Spring, Turtle
By Johna Till Johnson
Photos by Vladimir Brezina
Many benches in NYC’s Central Park bear engraved metal plaques. For a donation, one can endow a bench as part of the Park’s “Adopt-a-Bench” program.
As you might imagine, the engravings are sometimes sentimental, and often heartbreaking. Too often, they memorialize a loved one who’s clearly still missed by grieving friends and relatives: “To my beloved…”, “In memory of my dear…”
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And then there’s this one:
It made us laugh. And agree that it’s something to be grateful for!
Posted in Humor, Life, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Endowment, Manhattan, New York City, Park bench
By Vladimir Brezina
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Autumn Leaves, Central Park, Fall Foliage Colors, Manhattan, New York City, Photography
By Vladimir Brezina
The Mall, Central Park, NYC
I’ll have to go back very soon and take the corresponding picture in the spring…
A contribution to Ailsa’s photo challenge, Trees.
Posted in New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Travel, Trees, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Vladimir Brezina
On an overcast, dull winter day in NYC’s Central Park, there is not much color and nothing moves—except squirrels!
(click on any photo to start slideshow)
And who knew that the word “squirrel” was so hard to pronounce? See here—
So, for days now, Johna and I have been saying “skvirel” to each other :-)
Posted in Culture, Humor, Nature, New York City
Tagged Animals, Central Park, Humor, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Pronunciation, Squirrel
By Vladimir Brezina
Express yourself!… especially if there are photographers around.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Express Yourself.
Posted in Photography
Tagged Central Park, Express Yourself, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, Photoshoot, postaday, postaweek2015, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
Seasonally appropriate: sunny days after the big snowstorm in NYC’s Central Park—
(More photos are here, here, and here)
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Shadowed. A second contribution is here.
Posted in Nature, New York City, Photography
Tagged Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, Photography, postaweek, postaweek2015, Shadowed, Shadows, Snow, Weekly Photo Challenge, Winter
By Vladimir Brezina
...The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Last light over the Central Park Reservoir—
Posted in Nature, New York City
Tagged Central Park, Milkweed pods, New York City, Photography, Red berries, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sunset, Winter
... 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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