Wednesday, May 02, 2018

Springtime Texting: UPDATE

New York, New York

When I got into town Friday mid-afternoon with my pack of supplies for the workshop at Penumbra, we spent a couple hours rearranging things to get the second floor classroom and darkroom space set up for a digital/platinum workflow. Then I got to head out for a couple of hours of photo walkabout. In nearby Madison Square Park I found the flowering trees were weeks ahead of where they are up in northwestern Connecticut, but still weeks behind normal for springtime in New York.

There were people in the park, some of them looking at the promising signs of spring, but most of them texting:

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UPDATE


"MAD. SQ. PARK IS AN ARBORETUM

322 trees, two of which are historic English elms that pre-date the Park's construction in 1850"

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