Canopies

Snow city

Had us some snow last night!

Spectral leaves

Going,

gone

Another red

Oak 

Spring awakening

New year's hopefulness

Spring throng

These daffodils seem to be looking for Ukrainian blue

Fall creeps in

I've noticed the first leaves to change color often are those on vines.

Satori

I guess I never posted a picture of this sculpture, which was erected in Morningside Park in May. Called "Reclining Liberty," it light-heartedly combines a familiar New York character with an ancient Buddhist pose. Artist Zaq Landsberg lets viewers decide what it means. (Many younger ones also climb all over it.)

I had the pleasure yesterday of showing it to a friend who happens to be a Buddhist, and has just been through a really rough year. I didn't tell him what we were going to see, and had us approach from the right. We saw Lady Liberty's feet before we knew whose they were, or what she was doing. "It's the Buddha!" he gasped, happily astonished.

Pow!

 

Spring aloft

Trara, spring is here!

Spring approaches

Some of the Spring color which surprised us in Morningside Park today.

Snowy!

Surprise! Perhaps our four years of winter are coming to an end!

Ice art

Site-specific and mixed-media...

 

Just a little digital manipulation of the photo to bring out the hairline cracks which drew my eye to this gauzy skin of ice reveals...

a cosmos!