Yet more small-wonder joy from my Brooklyn Botanic Garden visit at the end of September. I’ve so many gorgeous photos left from that glorious morning that I’m doing themes: today it’s droplets of water on petals :-). As the last post may have alerted you, I’ve recently been back to Cox’s “longest sandy beach in the world,” in fact landed back in A’dam just last night, so more of those small sandy wonders also to look forward to in our future. Happy holiday season, one and all.
The Brooklyn Museum, above, as seen from the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, of which more below and still to come. All in Kings County, New York. (For the geography / administrative nerds out there: five counties make up NYC, which I think makes it the only such city in the US, where usually counties are bigger than cities in the sense that a given county nearly always includes multiple cities. SF is a city and county; LA county is way bigger than LA city, and Cook County bigger than Chicago. Comments (kind ones, please) that add to my knowledge base are most welcome :-).
Taken in NY County (though on a diplomatic compound) with views of New York, Kings & Queens counties (left), and just Queens County across the river, right. And yes, I did feel I dressed up rather well that day, thanks 🙂
I managed, my final morning in DC, to explore the Smithsonian Institution’s remarkable gardens, which run between some of the museums and around the “castle,” its first building from the 1840’s. Mercifully, though the shutdown began the day I arrived in town, there were sufficient funds for the museums and gardens – which I’d never even taken time to notice, on past visits! — to remain open for a bit more than a week. I truly hope that, even as so much change comes to how the central government of the US uses the many tax dollars it receives, that support for this national treasure & pride will remain firm.
Prismatic sunshine from skylights and other windows at DC’s remarkable National Museum of the American Indian, which I managed to visit early last month.
(so much world, so little time....) 