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| Miscellaneous Items - Page HHH |
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| The following photos were taken during my May 7, 2011 day tour to Penn-Dutch. |
| Sun setting as seen from inside the bus. |
Last summer, I left a plant growing in each pot. I thought they'd die during the winter. In March 2011, I began to notice that the plants had started to bloom. Here are the flowers that eventually bloomed. The first flower is Gallardia. I have been unable to find a name for the pink flowers. |
| From this shoots out the small pink flowers. |
Below is the facade of the new "Gertz Building" on Jamaica Avenue. If you click here you will get to see a photo of the building before it was converted to a Conway store. Scroll down the page to see the before and after photos. |
| Isn't this beautiful??? A rose by any other name is still a rose! |
| Belonging to the family of Phlox flowers. |
The following photos were taken on July 17, 2011 after my tour of the Queens Botanical Garden on Main Street in Flushing. Photos taken in Garden on Page JJJ. |
| Main Street looking north from the corner of Sanford Ave. |
| A display at a bridal store, Main Street. |
| Mangoes, mangoes and more mangoes, Main Street. |
| Corner of College Point Blvd. & Roosevelt Ave., #7 train with CitiField in background. |
| The UHaul clock tower, as seen from the corner of College Point Blvd and Roosevelt Ave. |
| Various figurines in a display in one of the stores in the New World Mall on Roosevelt Ave., off Main Street. |
When I visited St. Croix in June, I visited Ma's former apartment. In the back she had a few pigeon peas trees growing. I picked a few dried pods and brought them to New York City. I planted them in a flower pot and was surprised to see that the seeds germinated. Here is one of the 3 plants growing on my terrace. Update, May 13, 2013 - Though the plants grew and had flowers, they never produced any pigeon peas. The flowers came in September/October and by then it had begun to get cold. I tried again in 2012 with similar results. In 2012 what destroyed the flowers was Super Storm Sandy, not the cold! |
