Tag Archives: parks

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Falls

Dingmans Falls – Dingmans Falls, PA

Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – Gardens…

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Silent Sunday – Looking up…

Looking up in NYC at Christmastime

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree

Radio City Music Hall

Macy’s and the Empire State Building

Bryant Park Christmas tree

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Fountains and Sprinklers…

Ocean Park – Martha’s Vineyard
Bryant Park – New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art – New York City

https://nowathome.wordpress.com/2020/09/25/cees-black-white-photo-challenge-fountains-and-sprinklers/

A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes and Threes…

Share photos using the rule of thirds.

https://nowathome.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/a-photo-a-week-challenge-threes-and-threes/

RDP Sunday–RIPPLES…

https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2020/06/21/rdp-sunday-ripples/

Scrap…

Liberty State Park – New Jersey.

Remnants of Central Jersey Railroad ferry pier.

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https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/rdp-tuesday-scrap/

Photo A Day Challenge: Blossoms…

Cherry Blossom Festival in Newark, New Jersey (these photos are from 2018, the festival this year is April 6, 2019)

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Branch Brook Park is located in my hometown of Newark, NJ.   Branch Brook Park was created in 1895 making it the first county park in the nation.  It has the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the world… more than Washington, DC and more than Japan.  The cherry trees were a gift donated in 1927 by Caroline Bamberger Fuld. BBP is 360 acres and has almost 5000 cherry trees.  The Cherry Blossom Festival runs for two weeks beginning April 6, 2019.

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If you’re in the area go and enjoy the beauty of over 5,000 cherry trees in bloom 🙂

(Branch Brook Park)

Photo A Day Challenge: With Letter ‘G’…

Paterson Great Falls National Historic Park – Paterson, New Jersey

 

 

 

https://citysonnet.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/january-colors-and-letters/

 

 

September 11th, 2001…

Today, September 11, 2018 is the 17th anniversary of 9/11/01.

Let us always remember …

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In Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey stands Empty Sky:New Jersey September 11th Memorial  This memorial is dedicated to New Jersey’s 749 innocent loved ones who lost their lives that day at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and in Shanksville, PA.

From the Empty Sky website:  “Empty Sky” remembers those lost while simply and powerfully connecting New Jersey to Ground Zero. Twin walls transect a gently sloped mound anchored by a granite path that is directed toward Ground Zero. The length of each wall is exactly equal to one side of the former World Trade Center Towers as the height of the wall reflects proportion of the former buildings if they were lying on their side. . The seven hundred and forty nine (749) victims’ names from the State of New Jersey face one another on the interior elevations of the twin brushed stainless steel walls within easy reach. The walls channel visitors to the location in the Manhattan skyline where the former World Trade Center towers once stood.”

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(CLICK HERE to read about The Empty Sky Memorial)

At Eagle Rock Reservation in West Orange, New Jersey is the ‘Remembrance and Rebirth’ memorial dedicated to all the victims of 9/11.

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In memory of the 343 New York City Firefighters who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001

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In memory of the 23 New York City Police Officers, 37 Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Officers and Emergency Medical Services Personnel who sacrificed their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.

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Added in 2016, the Search and Rescue Dog Statue honoring the roughly 350 search and rescue dogs that worked tireless hours. CLICK HERE to read about it.

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On this 17th anniversary of 9/11 let us continue to remember and never forget the events of that day.

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