The Cherry Blossom Festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, 5.1.2005 -- Page 1

May first, 2005 was a bright, sunny day. I took the opportunity offered by the weather to enjoy an afternoon with my friends Willi & Cynthia to go to the Brooklyn Botanical Garden's annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Please enjoy this photo blog of Brooklyn's little slice of Japan.

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We started out walking through Prospect Park to get to the Botanical Garden. Here's a shot of a strange flowering tree we saw in the park. In the background is one of the imposing apartment buildings which line Prospect Park West. Always the scholar, Willi walks pensively through the park.

Here's another beautiful Brooklyn apartment building. I have been told that the structure on top of the building is the town house which originally occupied this spot. It was rebuilt on top the apartment building as a condition of the apartment's construction. Is this true? Another Prospect Park landscape.

It's early spring, and not all trees have bloomed yet. Others, however, are flowering. All kinds of colors are present in the park during spring! Here's a close up of that strange flowering tree. The flowers don't grow at the end of the tree's branches. Rather, they seem to burst right out of the thickest part of the tree branches themselves.

These magnificent cherry trees were in full bloom right off of Grand Army Plaza. Here's Grand Army Plaza itself. Imagine how nice it would be if it was a grassy green area suppporting the grand Victorian monument instead of just a huge traffic intersection choking it.

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We started out walking through Prospect Park to get to the Botanical Garden. Here's a shot of a strange flowering tree we saw in the park. In the background is one of the imposing apartment buildings which line Prospect Park West.	Always the scholar, Willi walks pensively through the park.


Here's another beautiful Brooklyn apartment building. I have been told that the structure on top of the building is the town house which originally occupied this spot. It was rebuilt on top the apartment building as a condition of the apartment's construction. Is this true?	Another Prospect Park landscape.


It's early spring, and not all trees have bloomed yet. Others, however, are flowering. All kinds of colors are present in the park during spring!	Here's a close up of that strange flowering tree. The flowers don't grow at the end of the tree's branches. Rather, they seem to burst right out of the thickest part of the tree branches themselves.


These magnificent cherry trees were in full bloom right off of Grand Army Plaza.	Here's Grand Army Plaza itself. Imagine how nice it would be if it was a grassy green area suppporting the grand Victorian monument instead of just a huge traffic intersection choking it.