Walkin' In Brooklyn

No video, because I was walking with News 12. Their video can be found here . I arrived early do I looped around a few blocks to the park, and then returned to Franklin Ave and Eastern Parkway to wait for Rob Flaks from News 12 to arrive. Together, we walked a ways down Carroll Street while he filmed and asked me questions. He kept up with me until about Brooklyn Ave before returning to his car. I made it down to Lincoln Terrace / Arthur S. Somers Park. Normally, I wouldn't cross through the park unless I needed to get to the other side, but in this particular case, I needed to use the bathroom. I'd been out for several hours now and had had a couple of large coffees. (The map above says 1:51:40 but there was a lot of waiting in there when the app was paused.) I returned through Crown Heights along Crown Street until Nostrand Ave where I got the IRT back to Atlantic Ave. I hadn't expected that walk to be four and a half miles. So I started off with the piece of Un...

I recently took a walk in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. I was meeting an old friend whom I used to work with. She wanted a copy of my book. Jackie is also successful online with a large follower and has traveled around the world since she retired from teaching. There isn't much to say, except that the two of us might've gotten lost looking for each other. We, unfortunately, used different entrances, and the roads are twisty in the garden. I finally met her by the rose garden. So there are some random pictures of trees and flowers, followed by some of the celebrities on the Brooklyn Walk of Fame. Brooklyn has its own Walk of Fame. Some of the stones have faded a bit, and a few of them (near the sides of the walk) are covered with foilage. There is plenty of space for more names, and there are some that look like they've been added recently. (Not to mention, some of the...