1/10/11

Stopping by the park on a snowy evening

Not a cold nor icy wind could keep me from stopping by Central Park on a clear winter evening. Just before dusk, I ventured down a path at 86th Street and Central Park West toward the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir where I stopped to look out over the iced-over lake and admire the frosty white pieces of snow covering everything within view. The view out over the 106 acres of ice was quite chilling so I headed toward the Arthur Ross Pinetum, the northwestern playground of the Great Lawn of Central Park.

This is also my favorite spot in Central Park, where my two favorite benches sit inside an arboretum amid a collection of pine trees. I even spotted a lone cone on a lone pine!

From there I should have gone somewhere warm to nurse my cold back to health, not make it worse, but I decided to stay in the park a little longer and then found my way to Cleopatra's Needle, aka 'The Obelisk'. It looked amazing surrounded by snow-covered magnolias and crabapple trees. The Central Park conservancy was in the middle of giving a tour there so I listened in on a bit of the history of this sculpture, then eventually did leave the park for a trip downtown to get a warm drink and enjoy the rest of the evening.

Benches in the Arthur Ross Pinetum by 85th & CPW
Central Park benches
The same two benches in summertime

Tree by The Great Lawn, surrounded by snow and the NYC skyline
Snowy tree

The ballfields covered in a blanket of snow on The Great Lawn
White Ballfields

A friend looking out over the reservoir
White coat and snow

The Central Park Reservoir

Footsteps on the ice?
Footsteps on the ice?
The same spot in the summertime

The Obelisk in wintertime
Obelisk in wintertime

1 comment:

  1. Did you hear that Egypt might take back the obelisk? They're not too happy with how it has been taken care of.

    ReplyDelete

follow @NYCphotos on twitter!