Showing posts with label botanical gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label botanical gardens. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

pitchers tuck by buddy don: good year fer them roses


tuther week me n miz bd tuck ourself over to the brooklyn botanick garden on a counta twuz time fer them roses to be at thar peak, witch they wuz.

twuz a verr odd day fer us in a way on a counta how even tho i wuz mindin my own bizness n keepin rite close to miz bd, on three differnt occashuns women cum up to me as ifn she wudnt even thar. furstn wuz in the subway whilst we wuz a'waitin fer the train, but i dint hardly notiss.

secunt one wuz on the train, a purty yung woman with a east europeon ackcent who wonted to ast me questchuns bout my camra, cummin to sit at my side even tho miz bd wuz sittin rite thar on tuther side!

lucky fer me miz bd aint the jellus type on a counta later on, whenever we wuz in the rose garden takin pitchers, a group of four women cum up to me n ast wuz i takin pitchers of roses that wudnt purrfeck? looked to me lack these ladies mite coulda cum frum japan or china or korea, witch i caint tell the differnts tho i gut a korean friend who sez he kin tell nine times outta ten. innywho, it tole em i lacked to git pitchers that showed jes how fleetin the beeyooty of them roses is, meanin a pitcher that shows one thats dun on the deecline, one thats jes bout reddy to bloom, n one thats purty much as good as twill git.

them ladies laffd n ast could i take thar pitcher on a counta they wuz jes lack them roses, with one bout to bloom, one in bloom, n a cuple that wuz ... then they laffd agin. thang wuz, as they wuz walkin round to whar they wonted thar pitcher tuck, one of em eggsplaind that a nuthern had cancer n dint have long to live. twuz odd that ye couldnt tell witchn twuz on a counta thay wuz all smilin n flirtin n havin em a real good time. ifn i had been a lil quicker on the uptake, mayhap i wooda tuck a pitcher of em. but i dint.

i did git the pitcher that led em to astin whut kinda pitchers i wuz takin, witch here tiz ...



Monday, May 04, 2009

pitchers tuck by buddy don: gone so soon


them cherry blossoms wuz here fer a verr short season, but now thar near all dun been shed frum thar trees. heres a cuple pitchers of em whenever they wuz in peak:





Thursday, April 23, 2009

pitchers tuck by buddy don: them magnolyas at that brooklyn garden


me n miz bd gut ourself out to the brooklyn botanick garden over the weekend, witch twuz a purty day, sum of them cherry blossoms wuz out, n the magnolyas wuz at thar peak. corse that means ye wont hardly be able to see nuthin on a counta all them folks in the way.

i figgerd i woodnt try to git pitchers of the flora, but the fauna, the human fauna, wuz thar in all thar glory, mosly takin pitchers, so heres a few i tuck of them includin one of a feller takin a pitcher i had to be in ...













Wednesday, July 23, 2008

pitchers tuck by buddy don: critters on flowers








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Thursday, July 03, 2008

pitchers tuck by buddy don: pitchers tuck ack! fishes cawt with a camra


taint everday that sumbidy makes a comment on this site n ifn thats a rare thang, tiz even rarer to git a pome, witch thats whut fletch wuz kind a nuff to leave yesterdy:
Pictures tuck,
of ducks,
sucking goodness
from the muck.
We should all
have such luck.
i am feelin purty lucky my ownself to read such a fine lil pome! thankee, fletch. now wander on over to fletchs site to see sum grate pitchers. he has the eye of a artist n goes to the best places ...

speakin of them ducks he writ about, as ye could tell frum the pitchers of em i putt in here yesterdy, them animulls that lives in the bbg has been nearly tamed. whuts true bout them ducks is true bout them fish. heres a lil fotograffick proof ...

this yaller koi wuz coy bout gittin his pitcher tuck, but i wuz payshunt a nuff to wait im out ...


as ye mite know bout fish, thar lack babies: everthang git putt into thar mouth to see whuther tiz tasty a nuff to eat, witch this koi had to try eatin a leaf!


corse, he spit it out bout as quick as he gut a taste of it ...


wharever thays koi, ye kin bet ye thays sum turtles ...


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Wednesday, July 02, 2008

pitchers tuck by buddy don: ducks suckin goodness frum the muck


tuther day after ackupunkchur whenever i wuz a'waitin fer miz bd to join me in a short visit to the brooklyn botanic garden, i cum across sum ducks, all female, filterin sumthin they musta luved frum the muck of a small stream. them ducks in the garden is nigh on to tamed, so twuz easy to git sum pitchers to proov how much they lacked that stuff ...

heres the furst cuple of em, witch ye kin see thar usin thar beaks to sift sumthin frum the muck ...






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Monday, April 21, 2008

pitchers tuck by buddy don: folks shores luvs thar sprang blossoms


on saturdy i had a ackupunkchur sesshun, witch tiz grate to have a hour of peace frum the pain of whut i bin a'goin thru the past few weeks. i am a'hopin that the doctors kin find out sumthin frum the tests i bin thru n will be a'goin thru this evenin.

whenever that sesshun wuz over, i found miz bd in the waiting room. she had been a'wurkin in the mornin her ownself, so twuz a nice sprize to find her thar.

while i wuz feelin grate durin the ackpunkchur, twudnt long ere thangs wuz back to whar they wuz befor, with that dull ache on the left side of my hed. she sugjested a trip to the brooklyn botanick garden n since i had dun got to the point whar i figgerd i wood be suffern jes as much in one place as a nuther, it sounded lack a good idee to me.

i carry my camra purty much everwhar i go, so i tuck a few pitchers. twuz a verr purty day, the nicest one of the year so far, witch that meant thay wuz way too minny folks thar, but ye couldnt blame nobidy fer wontin to be thar (we wuz amung em!).

miz bd wuz a'tellin me she had seen a episode of martha stewart whar one of the gardners frum the bbg wuz on with sum cuttins of a cherry tree to give her. he eggsplaind how a cherry tree kin live fer round 100 years on its own but only fer bout 50 ifn tiz round a bunch of folks, witch folks luvs em to death, ye mite could say.

this furst pitchers of a magnolia, but ye kin see how folks is more or less luvin it to death ...


them cherry blossoms in the japanese garden blooms furst, so everbidy wuz up in thar almos to whar ye couldnt move, but i wuz able to git a cuple shots to cum out purty good, lack thisn here ...


n of corse, flowers aint thonly purty thangs that ye see at a place lack the bbg ...


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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

pitchers tuck by buddy don: more turtles n koi


today is set to be a verr long day fer me on a counta havin to do a presentayshun to hong kong n tokyo tonite at 9 pm, witch ifn i am lucky i kin git it dun in about a hour n a half. i wuz lookin at this pitcher n thankin bout how we humans lack to thank we are the more add vanced creatchurs, but seems to me lack these turtles n koi have em a better way to spend thar daze ...



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Thursday, September 06, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: spread thin late in the season


these here water lilies kindly spreads tharself out late in the season, witch with vacayshun to ireland n all a'cummin up, me n miz bd feels purty much the same way ...



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Friday, August 31, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: a garden grows in staten island


thays a garden over in staten island that ye caint fine the lack of nowhars else here in amurka on a counta tiz a chinese skolars garden. tiz a place bilt fer contemplayshun n meditayshun. me n miz bd wood bild us one ifn we wuz to win the lottery or sumthin, witch that aint lackly, so thisn is a'gone half to do ...

one thang different bout it is how tiz all enclozed in walls ...



ye kin fine all kindsa lil nooks n crannies ...



... witch ye kin walk rite into em sos ye kin sit n meditate or contemplate thangs ...



everwhar ye turn, thays a purty vue









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Monday, August 13, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: hot august in brooklyn


twuz a verr hot day on sundy, but me n miz bd wint to that garden innywho. heres a cuple pitchers of them amazin water lilies, witch even king solomon aint gut nuthin on them when it cums to gittin spruced up ...







the beeyootifull flower of the sacred lotus ends up a'lookin lack a ugly mess, but tiz frum this that nex years sacred lotuses will cum ...


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Monday, July 23, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: a garden ye never git tired of

















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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: weekend plans


i am a'hopin that this weekend me n miz bd kin git the kinda pitcher of them sacred lotus blossoms we been a'trine to git fer a cuple years since i tuck a pitcher that has been used a cuple times as a stock foto. we wint a cuple weeks ago n seen how thar a'gittin reddy ...


as ye kin see, them yaller blossoms is dun alreddy thar, but the magick fer us is in the charles thomas with the pink blooms. taint that them yallers is innythang but purty, jes that we lack them pinkuns ...


nuther thang we hope to do is to git over to jessicas place sos we kin git a pitcher of the weddin dress, witch she n paddy is a'gittin marrd in september over in ireland ... n we kin hardly wait fer it!

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: locull plant life


as ye know, me n miz bd jes caint hardly git a nuff of that thar brooklyn botanick garden. fer the most part, we tend to go everwhar, but we dont hardly never show ye no pitchers of the local plant life, witch they gut em a seckshun deevoted to jes whut grows round here. tiz rite nice, in fack, even ifn taint as specktacklar as them sacred lotuses n tulips n azalyas n such. so heres five pitchers frum that part of the garden, allem tuck on sundy past ...

heres whut ye see at the in trance


heres sum wild bleedin harts, witch i bet ye dint know bleedin hart grows wild up in here, huh?


thisn here putts ye in mind of robert frosts pome bout that path die-virgin in a woods ...


whar wood a lady be without her slippers?


dont recall whut ye call these thangs, but looks kindly lack a hole tree of honeysuckle ...


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Monday, April 09, 2007

pitchers tuck by buddy don: early sprang magnolia blossoms


tuther day me n miz bd wint to the brooklyn botanick garden to see whuther innythang had bloomed. shore a nuff, we found plenty: magnolias, tulips, daffodils, pansies, n sum cherry blossoms. heres a few of the pitchers i tuck ...

furst, a magnolia bud bout to burst ...


n heres whut it looks lack once it gits open ...


most of em aint pink but white ...


corse, ye eggspeck to have ye sum tulips ...


n daffodils ...


n pansies ...


thay wudnt but a cuple cherry trees in blossom, witch thisn wuz the purtiest ...




n in yer scenes frum cummin attrackshuns, heres whut them lilac buds is up to ...


thang i luv most bout sprang is no matter how hopeless ye mite let yerself git to feelin (witch i half to add mitt, i do git to feelin thataway now n agin), sprang reeminds ye that thays importunt n beeyootifull thangs a'goin on.

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