(NYC 01 20 2021)
The asters of autumn have long gone to seed. The parks sport the brown and tan tones of skeletal plant stems, dried leaves, and fallow edges now, within winter’s center, dressed also in white from a January snow.
— rPs 01 31 2021
Posts Tagged Winter
Lichen the Weather
Lichen the Weather . . .
Lichen in Bloom
(NYC 02 24 2019)
Punxsutawney Phil predicted on February 2nd an early spring. He has been correct but for two spells of clear, cold artic gale.
The freeze left behind the windswept spells softens after just a day or two of damp, soft rain warm enough to compell the morning doves to coo.
The air is crisp, damp, clean, and cool enough for the lichen to flower in the West Village. Ground level, too, starts to stir, sprout, and shoot.
Sprouts
(NYC 02 2019)
Shoots
(NYC 02 2019)
Winter Spring: a new subseason?
— rPs 02 27 2019
Wintry Resistance
Wintry Resistance . . .
Goldenrod Over Ice
(NYC 01 17 2018)
Flanks, standing in review over the tidal river Hudson that breathes good cold air into the street grid fibers of Manhattan, the city even shaped like a lung where reside still a few scattered remnants of the previous growing season.
Flags, of a kind, wintry, resistant to the emphatic articesque change, stand beside the rise and fall flow of fractured ice.
Winter: Here, where the Wildflowers of the West Village remain.
Balance and Grace in Spite of (NYC 01 2018)
– rPs 01 17 2018
Wildflowers of the West Village 