Flowers in the trash - urban memento mori

Cherry blossom boughs peek over the top of a tent at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

Delicious pink cherry blossoms bounce in the breeze overhead. A visual delight to behold while visiting the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens during their annual Cherry Blossom Festival.

Pretty geisha girl at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens during yesterday’s Cherry Blossom Festival.

Po in painting uniform and mask, outside of Fast Ashleys Studio, Brooklyn NY.

She Keeps Bees performing at Music Hall of Williamsburg on Saturday night, along with Sharon Van Etten and Megafaun. Such a great night! Brooklyn - April 16, 2011

Sculpted stone saints perch on the Gothic facade of the Queen of All Saints Church - Vanderbilt and Lafayette Avenues, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Late afternoon sun and tree branches project lace-like shadows along a plywood wall on Court St. in Brooklyn.

“The memory of you is never lost upon me” - Elbowtoe

Bergen Street Station, Brooklyn NY

A winning smile in window of a dentist’s office on Court Street.

Rainbow no. 16 -  winter doesn’t feel so cold when you have a rainbow colored campfire. Winter fire and rainbow spell courtesy of my friend Emily.

A low glowing milky sky above Brooklyn. Bricks and leaves and a cool white winter landscape. Manhattan lines the horizon in the distance. This is the view from my back window. 

A black swan made of plastic hangs in the hallway of an apartment building in Williamsburg.

Winter in Brooklyn, snowy and quiet in monochromatic hues out of my back window.

Street scene after dusk on Brighton Beach Avenue, Brooklyn