New York City

tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pansy, Viola x wittrockiana, Dutch Blue cultivar. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, science, education Nick with his potato gun, on the downtown-bound A Train. Image: GrrlScientist, 3 June 2009. Today as I was riding the A Train to the library so I could use their free wifi, I ran into Nick and his friend who are high school students in NYC. Their hobby is science. Physics, to be precise. In the above picture (blurry -- the train provides a very bumpy ride), you can see Nick with one of his physics experiments, a potato gun that he designed and built using PVC pipe. Since I have designed and built a few items from PVC myself (mostly…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Wildflowers (well, sorta). Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pansy, Viola hybrid, pale yellow cultivar. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view]. These pansies are actually a very delicate pale yellow color, but unfortunately, my digital camera was unable to capture this color, so they appear to be cream colored, instead.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Yellow flowers. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day White Sweet Alyssum, Lobularia (Alyssum) maritima. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view]. When I was a kid in Washington State, I saw Alyssum everywhere, so I never appreciated them until recently. Seeing these tiny flowers was like being reunited with a long-lost friend. Lobularia is a genus comprising roughly 100-170 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae. They are native to Europe, Asia, and…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Marigold, Tagetes patula, although this is likely a hybrid. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view]. Marigolds are part of the genus, Tagetes, which comprises 52 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the daisy family (Asteraceae or Compositae). Marigolds are native to the region stretching from southwestern United States to Mexico and south throughout South America.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pansy, Viola hybrid, blue cultivar. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 83rd street, across from the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 27 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Dahlia, Dahlia hybrid. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 81st street as I was walking to the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 26 May 2009 [larger view]. Dahlias comprise a genus with at least 36 species of bushy plants that are native to the western regions of Central and South America. There are more than 20,000 named cultivars of these plants in captivity, which are the result of both hybridization and chromosomal duplication: Dahlias are octoploid -- possessing eight copies of each homologous…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Dahlia, Dahlia hybrid. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side on West 81st street as I was walking to the post office. Image: GrrlScientist, 26 May 2009 [larger view]. Dahlias comprise a genus with at least 36 species of bushy plants that are native to the western regions of Central and South America. There are more than 20,000 named cultivars of these plants in captivity, which are the result of both hybridization and chromosomal duplication: Dahlias are octoploid -- possessing eight copies of each homologous…
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Purple petunia, (Petunia x hybrida). Photographed while walking to the library along Amsterdam Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC. Sorry, this isn't the best picture I've ever taken. Image: GrrlScientist, 22 May 2009 [larger view]. Petunias are trumpet-shaped flowers produced by plant species in the genus, Petunia. Petunia species are native to South America. The precise relationships between and among petunias are still not clear, and the entire family, Solanaceae, is reclassified as new information…
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day White dahlia, Dahlia hybrid/cultivar, in the early morning sunshine. Photographed while waiting for the bus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 18 May 2009 [larger view]. If you look closely, you'll see lots of black specks on those white petals .. this is genuine Manhattan air pollution -- soot -- the same crap that coats the insides of your lungs and tries to kill you with every breath you take.
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pansy, orange cultivar, Viola hybrid. Photographed while waiting for the bus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 18 May 2009 [larger view]. Isn't it amazing what selective breeding (artificial selection) can give rise to over a few thousand generations? How much more amazing is natural selection that gives rise to new forms over millions of years!
tags: NYC, Upper East Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Pansy, purple cultivar, Viola hybrid. Photographed while waiting for the bus on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 18 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Yellow Hibiscus, Hibiscus rosasinensis. Photographed on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 12 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Zinnias. Photographed on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Image: GrrlScientist, 4 May 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Rose. 83rd and Amsterdam Avenue (Upper West Side of Manhattan). Image: GrrlScientist, 23 April 2009 [larger view]. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." -- Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2).
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature, image of the day Blossoms, UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view]. When the camera shutter clicked to get this picture, I thought of the impressive body of work produced by one of my favorite painters, Henri Fantin-Latour.
tags: NYC, Upper West Side, Manhattan, flowers, nature Flowers, photographed on the UWS, Manhattan, NYC. Image: GrrlScientist, 10 April 2009 [larger view].