Photos 26 Apr 2009 12:05 pm
Spring
- This past week started with a deluge of rain that flooded the city overnight, Monday. The rain took a full four days to finally pull out of town, but when it did it left sun. On Thursday, it became obvious that Spring had finally sprung and touched the flowers of the city.
Steve Fisher caught this shot at the beginning of the week.
A real harbinger of Spring.
By all rights, the blossoms should have been blown from the tree,
but they held tight.
This NYU housing area seems well pruned for the season.
The flowers there are boldly vivid.
I had hoped that the flowers of Madison Square Park would be
as brilliant as they were last year, but I was quite disappointed.
Perhaps there were some cuts in staff, the economy being what it is.
However, nature takes its course and does work on its own.
Here some trees are in full blossom without much help.
The most ordinary of buildings have spruced up
their tiny lawns with the brightest of colors.
The trees that line the sidewalks, however meagre, seem to be in blossom
and the attitude on the street is positive and optimistic.
The trees take on verdant greens and the streets seem alive
after a long winter.
Even the most pedestrian of signs looks better.
Other signs slip into the background, if they weren’t already there.
Walking the city seems fun, just now.
