Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.
As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”
Bursting out all over the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, azaleas (genus Rhododendron).
Meanwhile, the hawthorns (genus Crataegus) in Prospect Park.
Also in Prospect, some other kind of azalea.
Butterflies, ladybugs, flies, and bees were happy to see these blossoms, too.
I’m intoxicated – on color, that is. Stunning.
The hawthorns were a lovely discovery. A thorny taxonomic nightmare, evidently, but we will leave that to the professionals.
Gorgeous. I love hawthorns–I have one (Washington thorn supposedly) that is large and beautiful in bloom and in berry.
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