Eden on the Hudson
Yesterday, New York pulled summer heat and humidity out of seasonal storage, and transformed itself, as it does every summer, into a tropical city.
Upper Broadway sizzled.
In Riverside Park, workers plant new trees to cool the paths and hillsides.
“Looks like a big job,” I say.
“Nah,” says the man. “Only fifteen trees.”
Oh, only fifteen.
Back on Broadway, I find further proof, if proof were needed, that my city is a tropical paradise.
I may not live in the garden – they say Eden is guarded by an angel with a flaming sword – but I can shop there.
Later, a pigeon takes a break from parental duties at its nearby nest, and surveys the schoolyard,
where the blazing hot walls scream: “Save the animals” in bright blue paint.
After sunset, a hawk flies home to its nest high on Saint John the Divine to tuck its three fuzzy babies in for the night.
(This post is part of My World Tuesday, a weekly blog compilation from around the world.)
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June 17, 2010 at 7:23 pm
[…] for almost 20 years, I am still delighted, two years since moving back, each time I return home to Eden on the Hudson. Oh, I know it’s not all roses (though roses are in bloom right now behind the benches in the […]
May 11, 2010 at 9:52 pm
Great series of photos!
May 11, 2010 at 5:11 pm
Wonderful post and very colorful photos. Neat shot of the Hawk flying home.
May 5, 2010 at 6:51 pm
A love song to the very Upper West Side–loverly!
May 5, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I can feel the humidity, smell the sweat, see the blur of tropical colors; man it’s hot out there!
love the pic of the hawk flying home….