Inspiration

ETA: Forgive me if you can't see the pictures. It appears that the table is too wide for some computers, Explorer is having issues even showing the pictures at all, and though I made a single montage shot which I hope to link to the photo set on Flickr, Blogger hasn't allowed me to upload pictures for over two hours now. That's what I get for being so prepared today...

What a weekend. A girl can only be given so much material to work with. Perhaps two little days gave me enough to work with for a whole week?

Skipping over Shabbos for now, I'll get straight to yesterday. NNR, The Cheerleader and I set off just after noon to visit the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. Traffic into the City was not uneventful, license plates from many a state including Alabama, South Carolina and Illinois were spotted along the way. The sanity of the GPS lady was questioned more than once. Only after we were safely over the state line did The Cheerleader realize that, perhaps, it wasn't that the GPS was whacked (at least not this time.) Yes it had taken us on a completely different route than she remembered from her previous visit, but that, it seems was due to the fact that she had actually visited the Bronx Botanical Gardens. And though the journey took longer than expected, the stop and go traffic through previously unexplored parts of Brooklyn (at least unexplored by me) afforded ample opportunity to observe some potential photo shoots the Sartorialist had clearly rejected.

We arrived at the Gardens two hours before closing and made the most of them. I found inspiration all around, unfortunately my camera and skills limited the number of quality shots to share. But I got enough that I'm happy with to overwhelm you with now. So here we are, a day at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens: