garden : cherry blossoms

Hi Everyone -

On our first free day last week, we visited the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to see the cherry blossoms or Sakura in Japanese. They have an incredible display and we found some other beautiful collections of flowering trees, lilacs and tulips. The garden architecture there is really amazing. It was a lovely day with a lot of energy from bus loads of kids, tourists and the elderly. Photographically, I felt quite overwhelmed because there was so much to see.

{Warning: If you cover your eyes during certain parts of animal shows like Nature (I do), this part might be scary.}

After lunch, we walked down a relatively quiet path trying to live in the moment. We stopped to look at a field and this rather large bird landed and I started to take a photo. Before you knew it, the bird took off and was carrying something. Did that just happen? No WAY! Come ON! This is Brooklyn! What was it? A squirrel, chipmunk. I did get a picture (I won't show you) and it turned out to be a red tailed hawk with a rabbit. We could NOT believe it. So, to make our lives even more complicated, we are now members of the animal witness protection program.

I really hope you all have a nice weekend and a Happy Mother's Day. And, if anyone asks, you haven't seen neither hide nor hair of us.

xo, Cindy

PS More springtime blossoms here. Lilacs & tulips next week.