There were plenty of other walkers on a nice afternoon. The lower end of the elevated park is lush with vegetation. It is an abandoned, elevated RR spur converted to an amble above the traffic, a great idea and great execution. I spotted a stand of equisetum, an antique plant, from the Paleozoic, and a nice cluster of maidenhair fern. There are lots of benches, vistas, flowers and birds. We started at 12th St. and did the whole 1.5 miles to 34th St. The northern part of The High Line, added last, is still under development. We walked east on 34th to the Empire State Building and then south back to the car in plenty of time to get back to NJ and the airport for Jon's next flight.
Thursday we were also in the city to visit Val, Steve and Lucy. Val gave me some magic beans to plant in VT.
Yesterday I went to the Farm and bought a gorgeous astilbe for a problem spot in VT, and an Aucuba japonica ‘Mr. Goldstrike’, a shrub with yellow spotted leaves that I planted next to the house between the den and dining room windows.
New blooms: elderberry.
At the Farm picking out a couple of plants, I heard birds everywhere, went to the car for a cam and caught a chipping sparrow and...
A great blue heron. At first I thought a garbage bag had blown into the tree, but took a picture and enlarged it in the camera to see the bird. I missed another bird who wasn't patient enough to wait for me while I went for the camera.
We walked The High Line, in NYC, with Jon. This is a big stand of equisetum. Equisetum is the only relic and survivor of the tree/fern forests of the late Paleozoic.
The west side of Manhattan has construction everywhere. I counted seven sites in this shot.
A lot of the old RR tracks are still visible.
Architects have designed a lot of odd looking buildings near The High Line.
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