Inside The New York Botanical Garden
Posted in Photography on April 22 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Scrolling through the photos taken by my colleague Ivo this spring is a bit like eating a Parisian macaron; airy, sugary, delicate, delicious, evanescent, amazing. This spring is one of the prettiest I can remember, but unlike the finest confections, it keeps lingering on. It’s just wonderful!
Prunus ‘Accolade’ (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)
Posted in Photography on April 21 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on April 20 2013, by Ann Rafalko
Magnolia Way (photo by Rafael Moricete Jr.)
Posted in Photography on April 19 2013, by Ann Rafalko
The Orchid Show is a major must-see for New York City’s fashion crowd, and when I see orchids like these, resembling the most haute silk faille, well, it all begins to make sense.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Photography on April 18 2013, by Ann Rafalko
What’s in a name? Ask dogtooth and bloodroot. Together they kind of sound like the beginning of a Shakespearean curse or insult, no? And yet, they’re such beautiful ephemeral spring wildflowers!
Bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis ‘Multiplex.’
Dogtooth Violet Erythronium americanum
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden on April 17 2013, by Ann Rafalko
I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
Sleeping in the Forest ~ Mary Oliver
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 15 2013, by Matt Newman
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 14 2013, by Matt Newman
The winter months drag by with all the monotony of reading a dictionary, yet a single week in spring changes everything.
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 13 2013, by Matt Newman
It’s almost “go” time for the coming spring ephemerals, and the Native Plant Garden is a canvas ready for painting, so to speak. (The wait is a good kind of anxiety. Trust me.)
Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen
Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on April 12 2013, by Matt Newman
The wait is done, the warmth is here, and all that’s left is the coming green.
Photos by Ivo M. Vermeulen