Enchantment

Central Park Conservatory Garden environs (Harlem Meer), Late October, 2020

Anatoly Lyadov, The Enchanted Lake (1909)

Sound the flute!

Central Park Conservatory Garden, April 23

Spring

Sound the flute!
Now it’s mute.
Birds delight
Day and night;
Nightingale
In the dale,
Lark in sky,
Merrily,
Merrily, merrily, to welcome in the year.

Poulenc Among the Flowers

Central Park Conservatory Garden, October 30, 2017.

In a City Garden

In casting about for a poem to accompany the photographs on this post, I pulled Paroles, a slim book of poems by Jacques Prévert, from my book shelf. The photographs, by the way, are of the Central Park Conservatory garden in late March, with snow still on the ground, and late May.

Central Park Conservatory Garden, September

The photographs were taken at the Central Park Conservatory Garden September 20, 2016.