Prospect Park South

I've mentioned over the past couple of posts that I am moving, but thankfully, I'm staying in the same neighborhood.  Prospect Park South.  Obviously, I'm not going to broadcast anything more specific than that over the intertubes, but the area is gorgeous.  I love it.  The historical feel is lovely, there are so many fun places to go, and it feels slightly more suburban, and far away than many places in the city.  I love living a half an hour train ride away from the craziness of midtown Manhattan.

Here's why.

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Longwood Gardens Part 2

So... remember when I told you to wait til Sunday for the rest of the Longwood Gardens photos?

Yeah..........

It's Tuesday afternoon.  Life's been really busy lately. I had a new show open on Friday, and on top of performing in it, I'm also the Dance Captain, so life has been nuts.

BUT ANYWAY.  Here are the photos!

 

 

 

There will actually be one more day of Longwood Gardens photographs after this one!  (Then just wait til I go back for the holiday light displays... )

I'd love to say that it will be posted tomorrow, but I might not be able to get it up.  I hope I do!  Every time I let this blog just sit for a few days it makes me sad.

In any case, I hope you enjoy it!  As always, your comments and emails are very appreciated :)

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA

Longwood Gardens Part 1

 

Longwood Gardens is a stunning former Dupont family estate in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, not too far away from where I grew up.  There are acres upon acres of pruned outdoor gardens, stunning indoor conservatories, fields, fountains, and pruned fruit and vegetable gardens.

They also feature some special exhibits- there is one permanent installation about the gorgeous organ in the conservatory ballroom.  A temporary exhibition while I was there was about perfumes. It told how different scents are extracted from flowers and mixed together.

The indoor conservatories really are spectacular.

 

This flower (below) was one of my particular favourites.  My favourite colour has changed probably 75 times over the years.  When I was really little it was green, then purple, then burgundy, then red, then black... lately I've really been liking baby blue.  I don't know why.  There's something inherently pleasant about it.

 

Here... have some more lovely flowers!

More to come on Saturday :)

Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, USA

Inspiration Fridays: Sunlit Flowers

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Black Eyed Susan and Such

I know, I know.  More flowers.  I'm always posting photographs of flowers.

But I love  them, and they are just so darn fun to photograph.  Flowers are so delicious, so happy, so gorgeous... inspirational in every way.  And their time for this year is pretty much done, unless I go to a greenhouse or something.  Which I will do at some point.  So enjoy some of the fabulous flora from Beach Haven this past summer.

Beach Haven, New Jersey, USA

Nature's Gifts

Flowers from Central Park in the middle of summer.  

The first photograph is of the waterlillies in the Bethesda Fountain- one of my favourite locations in New York City.  The feeling of power there affects your very soul, it's so beautiful.  

The second is of one of the many plaques in the Shakespeare Garden, another favourite of mine.  It's a quote from Shakespeare's King John, my favourite of his histories.  I actually use the monologue it's taken from as an audition piece.  

The others are of lovely flowers from elsewhere around the park.  Central Park is so delightful- I now live very close to Prospect Park, its Brooklyn equivalent of sorts, and hope to be posting many photographs of it sometime in the near future.  But, something about Central Park's cache is indescribable.  To sit in one of the meadows, or under one of the ancient trees, next to the Bethesda Fountain... One feels imbued with a sense of class that can only be described as inborn.  And I'm not overly classy in my normal life.  A baguette, a yogurt parfait, and a Shakespeare Garden help me create the illusion rather nicely.

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA