Grand Central is enormous with 48 acres, 44 platforms, and more than 100 tracks, the most of any railroad station in the world. Its architectural elegance and shopping options attract over 21 million visitors every year, one of the top ten global tourist attractions. This is in addition to the […]
Monthly Archives: September 2015
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Landing at Newark airport, approaching from the south, I flew right over the southern part of Staten Island. This is both the southernmost point of New York City and New York State. Bounded in the foreground and background by New Jersey, the southern part of the island is bordered by […]
I spent my early summers in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, where I fell in love with nature. I climbed all the 46 high peaks there in my childhood and teens, enjoying the vast forests where I could camp alone and not see anyone for days. With over […]
I have several of these shrubs in my yard in assorted colors, so I think of them as Rose of Ruth, though actually they aren’t a rose at all but a kind of mallow. There are a profusion of flowers over the summer, often blooming through heat that wilts lesser […]
Stick insects, known locally in North Carolina as walking sticks, belong to the order Phasmidae, derived from the Greek phasma, meaning phantom. This is because they blend like apparitions with the leaves and sticks where they rest. Though not as adaptable as chameleons, they can slightly adjust their colors to […]