September Dogwood, Beverly Road, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 2009 My clear signal for the onset of Spring is the blooming of Snowdrops, Galanthus ...

Bas-relief in Persepolis . On the day of an equinox, the power of an eternally fighting bull (personifying the Earth) and that of a lion (pe...

Park(ing) Gnome, Cortelyou Road Park, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 16:42 (4:42 pm) Worms!, 16:26 (4:26 pm) Bulldog Puppy, 15:27 (3:27 pm) ...

Over the weekend, 12 newly planted trees were destroyed at Juniper Valley Park in Queens. This incident marks the fourth case of tree damage...

Cortelyou Road Park, Flatbush, Brooklyn, Park(ing)Day NYC 2008 On Friday, September 18th, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM, a park will be born: S...

Sunday, I tabled for Sustainable Flatbush at the Flatbush Frolic. For the second year, Sustainable Flatbush presented an Environmental Fair ...

A path in the Brine Garden in Pawling in Dutchess County, NY, north of New York City. Last Sunday, Blog Widow and I drove up to Pawling, ...

Clerodendrum bungei Steud., Rose Glory Bower This Wednesday I take the final for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Herbaceous Landscape Pla...

Although I've lived in Brooklyn since 1992, I didn't encounter Sphecius speciosus , the Eastern Cicada Killer, until we moved to Fla...

This beautiful creature is not a bee. It's a fly of the Syrphidae , a family of flies renowned for bee mimics. This is Eristalis transve...