Each Spring, along with the magnificent magnolias and charming cherry blossoms, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden puts out spectacular beds of tulips near the lily pools.
The variety is amazing, not only with so many colors, but also shapes and size, including fringed varieties, and some whose color is so intense it seems hardly possible it could be natural.
That’s particularly true for some of the very dark ones, such as Black Parrot and Queen of Night, below.
Jonathan L visits two neighbors: a premier modern art museum and an unusual linear park
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Jonathan L always has his eyes open for those little moments of every day life that make life extraordinary
Deep in Tangier’s Medina, an old but updated hotel beckons with its opulent lobby
DrFumblefinger shares some photos from Bowron Lakes Provincial Park in B.C.
I’m not a swimmer, and the only way you could get me to go over water like this (frigid mountain waters of the Kootenai River) is with a sturdy bridge
Tucked away in the attic of the Hôtel des Invalides is a fascinating bit of military and cartographic history
Deep in Tangier’s Medina, an old but updated hotel beckons with its opulent lobby
Seville’s scrappy ‘other side of the river’ has a character and history all its own
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