So much gorgeousness at 3 p.m. on a crisp November Monday--plus a Media Bonus.
On this Asian Bride Monday, we had at least 8 couples getting photographed (with much shivering of bare shoulders). For a moment, in the Cleft Ridge Span, there was nearly an incident of "bridelock" or, at the very least, hot and cold (mostly cold) running brides and grooms.
One of my favorite multi-trunked trees, near the Audubon House, was arrayed just as magnificently; I'm glad the car was there, it gives you some idea of the scale of this tree.
Across the Lullwater Bridge, the woods are very open and symmetrical, like a church with columns but no pews.
A few yards up the hill, the Binnenwater (below) splashes down on its way to the lake. I wonder if the crayfish I met here last summer has buried himself deep in the cold mud?
But wait, there's more!
These familiar-looking fellows were striding along, with a video crew in tow, talking about the park, "Brooklyn's back yard." We had stumbled onto a shoot for the newest installment of This Old House!
Landscaping guy Roger Cook (left) was probably praising Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux to Handyguy Kevin O'Connor (right).
The crew was happy to pose on the bridge, and dragged Daughter into the shot; they must have intuited her lifelong experience being raised in That Old House. The producer assured me that they would be breaking the news tomorrow about their upcoming Brooklyn project, in Prospect Heights. Well, sort of breaking; it's been known in the Brooklyn blogosphere, right down to the rumored address, since last month (and we will mercifully spare the project-house family any further spotlight).