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 🙂
Flying home to A’dam the first weekend in October, from Dulles, we pretty much followed the coastline as the sun set. I was happy the clouds cleared enough to give me the view above :-). If you don’t recognize it, just look at a map of the main cities north of DC as you travel up the US east coast. Or look at the metadata in the large-screen or full version of the blog. 🙂
A trifecta: the NJ counties of Hudson & Bergen plus the County of New York. Which, if you’re curious, sits in the city of NY and the state of NY, so I guess it’s kind of a trifecta in its own way too. Hmm…
(so much world, so little time....) 