Brooklyn, kid

One afternoon Whitney suggested we go to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens (I'd never been). It was a great place to relax, enjoy nature, and for $4 student admissions it seems like a reasonable alternative to the people-heavy Central Park. The grounds were well kept with nice views and other eye candy--a couple shirtless men dotted the open fields--and despite our being there so late in the summer the plants looked fresh and healthy. The Bonsai exhibit there is sweet, too... the close-up shot below is of a bonsai thats 114 yrs old.






That night we walked passed one of the many block parties that seem to pop up nightly on one street or another. The four or five different sound systems playing up and down the block competed for ear space; as we walked the music varied with throwback Michael Jackson hits, Biggie/brooklyn rap, and some latin dance genres. And noooo block party ends until somebody plays the electric slide, damn it!