Tag: New York

• Gardens….Nature’s Hallways

  Post in response to – Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147: Gardens In the words of Rudyard Kipling “Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.”  Gardens require planning, execution, labour and nurture. The best examples of this interplay of Sense and Sensibility are Chinese gardens in China or anywhere with Chinese […]

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  May 11, 2021

  2021, Accidental Expat

  Brooklyn Botanical Garden, China, Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #147: Gardens, MASTER OF THE NETS GARDEN, New York

• Central Park – A Welcome Escape

  Covid-19 Lockdown in India (in its third phase) is a blessing or a pain depending on how one looks at it. There is no cutting corners or streets and ‘locked up in the house’ is the new creative genre. This post is a re-post of my first blog post (December 2009) about my first Central […]

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  April 17, 2020

  2020, Accidental Expat

  Belvedere Castle, Bethesda Terrace, Central Park, Great Lawn and Turtle Pond, Harlem Meer Central Park, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, Jo’s Monday Walk, New York, New York City, Travel

• Hong Kong’s ‘High Line Park’

  Hong Kong is forever in a flux; in a constant need to replenish and re-engage its outer casings. The latest, at least I visited it few days back, is the perky changeover of the former airport Kai Tak *and its surroundings. The runaway has been converted into a cruise terminal and the three levels no-trims attached […]

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  June 24, 2015

  Accidental Expat

  High Line Park, Hong Kong, Kai Tak Airport, manhattan, Meat Packing district, New York