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Weekend Plans: Your Longest Day + Shortest Shadow
For the first time since 1948, we have a full Moon on the summer solstice (June 20, 2016). Here are a few ways to celebrate the summer solstice in NYC and beyond.
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Notice the Ephemeral: Linden Blossoms
New Yorkers, it’s time to take a deep breath. Did you smell a floral honey-lemon scent wafting on the breeze? You just caught a whiff of the Linden trees in bloom.
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Try to Look Up More
If you are new to noticing nature in an urban setting, you might feel a little awkward looking skyward while everyone else is rushing with their heads down. Be brave. Who cares if you…
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Currently Reading: The Edge of the Sea
In “The Edge of the Sea,” Rachel Carson writes with a beautiful clarity about our very human attraction to the seashore and the deeper understanding we can find there.
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Weekend Plans: Pigeons, Love, and Plant Pigments
Ways to explore the natural world in NYC and beyond this upcoming week (June 11-17, 2016).
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Explore Tide Pools in the Bronx
Discover the shimmering tide pools and rocky coasts of Twin Islands and Hunter Island in NYC’s largest park, Pelham Bay Park.
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Transform Your Lunchtime
The poet Frank O’Hara famously wrote his book Lunch Poems on his lunch hour. Here is how he described it: “Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noontide, has…
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Weekend Plans: Seeing Stars, Counting Fish, the Bliss of Storms
This weekend (June 4-5, 2016) in NYC, you can see stars, count fish, explore a wetland, or read about the bliss of storms.
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Currently Reading: On Looking
Alexandra Horowitz’s astounding and delightful “On Looking: Eleven Walks with Experts Eyes” will inspire you to never look at your own NYC block the same way ever again.
● About Me
I’m Traci and this is my love letter to the place where I discovered the natural world – New York City. More about me >
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