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The prompt for Week 28:  Celebration!

Just in time to celebrate Bella's birthday,
I found these balloons set in this tree to help
the guests locate the festivities for
another birthday girl—her name is Bridget
and she was turning (I'm guessing) 4 or 5.
Happy birthday to Bella and Bridget!

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Weekend Reflections

In the Japanese garden at the Brooklyn Botanic,
the leaves on this weeping tree were only
just staring to turn yellow a couple of weeks ago.
Mostly, though, the whole scene was still green—even the lake.

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The prompt for Week 27:  someone you love

The question of a subject for this one was
settled for me easily.  I was spending the
weekend with my mother—and when I opened 
Bella's prompt on Sunday morning, I just 
picked up my camera and said "Smile, please!"
She'll be 94 next March and is still pretty
darn cute, don't you think?

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Weekend Reflections

There's always some interesting public
art in City Hall Park.  This is "Suncatcher,"
by the French conceptualist Daniel Buren;
it's part of the current exhibit, called
The Lightness of Being—a group show featuring
"playful" works by 11 different artists.

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The prompt for Week 26:
The first thing I see in the morning

When my kids and I first moved here, I gave
them the master bedroom to share and took this
much smaller room.   Even though I've now
moved into the master, I still like to sleep in my
old room sometimes—and when I do, this is
what I wake up to.  (At least when I don't have to get
up while it's still dark out, and if the weather cooperates.)

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Weekend Reflections

These beautiful French copper pots belong to
friends of mine who used to have a place
in Paris—and know how to use them.
I'm no French chef, but I can see bouillabaisse
bubbling in the big one, chocolate melting for a mousse
in the double boiler, and coq au vin in the casserole.

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The prompt for Week 25: starts with the letter C

How about a cup of coffee at Chez Prune,
a very cool Paris café on the Canal St. Martin?
Or maybe you'd prefer to sip a glass of Cointreau or
a Coca Cola and munch on a little bowl of cacahuètes.
(I was quite content enjoying a kir as I shot this.)

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Weekend Reflections

The water lilies may be my very
favorite end-of-season flowers at the
botanic garden.  BTW, the building that's
also reflected here is an apartment complex
they named Ebbetts Field because it was built where
they tore down the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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The prompt for Week 24—color of the season: gold

This ginkgo—the tree "that grows in Brooklyn"—is
in my neighborhood (in Brooklyn, of course).
But I must admit that I took this picture a couple
of years ago.  Right now, the leaves are still mostly green.

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