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Weekly Photo Challenge: Our Neighborhood

Posted on March 11, 2013 by | 61 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This week’s Photo Challenge is Our Neighborhood.

Last week’s snowstorm was surely the last gasp of winter. On Saturday, the remnants of the snow were vanishing in the warm sunshine, the first flowers were peeping out from under last year’s dead leaves, and everyone was out in Central Park. I was there too with my camera (not my cell phone)…

(click on any photo to start slideshow)

Runners and puddles
Reflections 1
On the bridle trail
Promenade
Reservoir jogging track
Reflections 2
Walking the dog
Remnants of snow
Reflected feet
Crowded
Killing two birds with one stone
Red shoes
City all around
First flower
Hidden crocuses
Golden in the sun
Shy snowdrop
Yellow and orange
Old and new
Big puddle
At the turtle pond
Pair
Spring mess
Resting in the sun

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Playing in the Snow

Posted on February 12, 2013 by | 65 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

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The morning after the snowstorm, we came out into Central Park to find thousands of people playing in the snow and sunshine.

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And I took a thousand photos. I am still sorting them out, but here are a few good ones—

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Snow!

Posted on February 9, 2013 by | 70 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Yesterday at dusk, just as the heaviest snow started to come down in NYC, we ventured out into Central Park—

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(More photos are here.)

Now, the next morning, the storm is over and the sun is peeking out. Time to go back into the park for a few more shots!

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Winter Life at the Reservoir

Posted on January 30, 2013 by | 90 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Last weekend at NYC’s Central Park Reservoir. An icy cold day. The Reservoir is mostly frozen over, leaving just a patch of open water where all of the Reservoir’s birds have congregated.

Johna surveys the panorama. (Click to enlarge any photo.)

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Midtown Manhattan rises up beyond.

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The birds are mostly Canada Geese and ducks, including some varieties that we’ve never noticed here before—they are probably from Canada, down for the winter. They paddle through the patch of open water, squabble, or just stand silently on the ice, beaks tucked into their back feathers, facing into the cold wind.

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The blue shadows lengthen as the sun goes down, lighting up the East Side on the other side of the Reservoir with its last rays.

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More photos are here.

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Travel Theme: Up, Take Two

Posted on January 20, 2013 by | 17 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Ailsa’s travel-themed photo challenge this week is Up. We’ve already posted one response, but here’s another one.

Looking up in NYC’s Central Park…

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A Few Last Images of Fall…

Posted on November 28, 2012 by | 32 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

In NYC’s Central Park, a few colorful leaves are still hanging on…

… or, having just fallen, lie glowing in the undergrowth

where hosts of squirrels rustle about, preparing for winter

More photos are here.

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Images of Fall

Posted on November 21, 2012 by | 60 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Even though upstate the trees are already bare, here in New York City, in our heat island, Fall is still very much with us… Here are a few photos taken over the last few days in Central Park.

Many more photos are here.

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Late Afternoon in the Park

Posted on October 14, 2012 by | 76 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Yesterday in Central Park, New York City. The individual photos are here.

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Favorite Spot

Posted on October 2, 2012 by | 54 comments

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…

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Sunday Post: Autumn, Take Two

Posted on September 16, 2012 by | 77 comments

By Vladimir Brezina

This is a second post in response to Jakesprinter‘s Sunday Post theme of Autumn (the first post was here).

Fall is just starting here in New York City—but it’s unmistakably on its way. Here are some of the colors we can look forward to in a month or so…

Photos taken around New York City’s Central Park Reservoir in Fall 2011. More photos are here and here.

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