After the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, I took the subway over to DUMBO, grabbed some lunch at Almondine, and took that down to the Brooklyn Bridge Park. There are great views of the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, as well as the Manhattan skyline. Really great place to have lunch on a warm day. Once I was […]
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On Tuesday morning, I hit the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I was all excited because I was going to be able to use my Reciprocal membership from our Botanical Garden, and it turns out it’s free on Tuesday anyway. The coolest thing in bloom at the moment was the water lily collection. That happened to be
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My first night there, I wanted to be back to my room by 10:00 (because I’m officially a little too much of a Castle fan-girl, and needed to see the season premiere). So, after reading recommendations that the Empire State Building was really neat after dark because you had great views of all the lights,
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I’m back from a three night, way too quick trip to New York City. I’ve never been before, other than a couple of drive throughs on the way to family trips to DC. (I remember driving by Macy’s when I was twelve, and I remember my father pointing out the World Trade Center towers on
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So we were in Washington DC from last Thursday to Tuesday. The weather was gorgeous (though ungodly humid), and we had a really good time. There was a fair amount of Smithsonian Museum viewing, and some really good food (Ted’s Bulletin, I’m looking at you!). We also got to experience Friday Night Jazz at the
Final installment in my pictures from DC (I am so behind posting these…) There was really neat orchid exhibit at the National Botanical Gardens while we were down there. The Garden is next to the Capital, and I highly recommend visiting it. There’s an outdoor garden, and a glassed in house, that has a number
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After starting to go through the flower pictures I did manage to take on the trip, I notice that I managed to see quite a bit. This album is a condensed version of what was around outside. Yes, there will be a post coming of just flowers I saw inside. Wow. I am that much
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You see these pictures? Several months ago, when we booked our long weekend in Washington, DC, based on prior experience, we fully expected that we’d be awash in cherry blossoms when we got there. (Heck, the organizers of the 100th anniversary festival expected the same.) But, they got the same heat wave we got, so
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