Discovering Beauty in Everyday Life

Typical Young Woman multitasking on her way to the subway.

I love a half and half, and here's a beauty. A bouquet of Amber Hybrids floating in the sun. http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/Plant_Families/Poaceae.htm (courtesy of our Horticultural Specialist Christian F.)

Love leaves a quiet coal that smolders in your gut Damped down and waiting for a wanton spark Waiting to ignite your ribs and seer your heart Burning wormholes through the warp and weft of minutes shooting new life through leftover bones.

 This single  monarch was sited dining on Blue Salvia in the English Conservancy Garden.  According to this week's Monarch Butterfly Migration update , "Temperatures across the north have been unusually warm. With an extended growing season, late-season monarchs have had time to complete the life cycle. Monarchs are still being seen, and often in large numbers"  The sighting was reported to the Annenberg Global Sighting webpage (with a photo...)! Annenberg Learner Site - Journey nouth, A global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change Monarch Butterfly dining on Blue Salvia in the English Conservancy Garden of Central Park.

I was minding my own business, aiming to shoot the reservoir path, when this pushy bouquet of flowers came out of nowhere, practically shoving the people into the water! Flowers have no manners anymore!

I was swallowing the day whole, Inhaling the deep yellows and wet green, when I chanced upon a new yellow tree, near a set of tall, unattached, helter skelter fence posts. The posts were maybe twelve feet tall. "What they intend to confine must be extremely big," I thought, and I drew closer. I saw that New Tree was planted in what appeared to be an old fishing boot!  Could it be that someone intends to use these posts not for a fence, but as a set of pilings meant to hold up a large waterproof basin?  And just what sort of fauna is expected to dwell within this gigantic puddle? Puddle? Puddle!   Aha!  Clearly, this basin is meant for neither fauna nor flora, but is another classic Parks Department puddle eradication scheme!  They will attempt to trap each mudpuddle and move it to a sort of mudpuddle reservation in the North End of the park.  What a relief.  Firstly, the Parks Department will never capture the essence of the puddle, since they are confusing the puddl

Can you believe it?   This apple tree has appeared out of nowhere!   I've been  round and round the Central Park Reservoir a thousand times, and not a single apple!  Is it the hurricane?  Perhaps it took a small Earthquake?  What a beautiful sight.