Sunday was beautiful - 60s, sunny, people out and about in the neighborhood. Sunday is also the only day both Patrick and I are off work. So - we got up early, ate breakfast, and then got our bikes out. It was the first time I was on a bike since August, and my first time out in the city. We biked over to Prospect Park and looped the park twice (inadvertently - missed the turn the first time) before heading over to the Botanical Garden, where bulbs and trees were in bloom (mostly types of magnolias I'd never seen in the south and a couple of early blooming cherries). I also learned that the very pedestrian forsythia is actually an ornamental relative of the olive tree. Pictures will be coming soon.

After the garden, I braved street biking (Park Slope has lots of bike lanes and not much traffic, I still won't go in Manhattan or on Flatbush, Atlantic or Eastern Parkway) and we biked over to the north side of our neighborhood and got lunch and a few really good chocolates before heading back home. I also trimmed back my perennial herbs and put them out in hopes they will come back to life in the next few weeks. |